https://barcelonafreeart.net/2021/06/16/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-penis-or-a-mushroom-woman-in-a-moon-hat/2021-06-17T13:41:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/about-3/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/banner_bcn01_001-page001_low.jpgBCNFreeArt01_Banner_lowhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/logo_horiz.jpglogo_horiz2019-03-02T01:39:10+00:00weekly0.6https://barcelonafreeart.net/2014/08/06/where-the-sky-has-fallen/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_11.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_11Detail of Cel caigut (Fallen Sky, 1988) by the North American artist, Beverly Pepperhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_09.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_09Cel caigut (Fallen Sky, 1988) invites locals to use and clamber over its forms as if it were a benevolent sleeping dragonhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_07.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_07 Sweeping ceramic curves embedded within the grass achieve a rare harmony with the Mediterranean architecturehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_06.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_06The vegetation has been selected to accentuate the sculpturehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_05.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_05A huge earthworks clad in ceramic tile—a homage to Gaudi’s trencadís style—transforms the landscape.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_04.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_04The vegetation and even the shaping of the earth have been chosen to accentuate the sculpturehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_03.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_03Cel Caigut (Fallen Sky) and Espiral arbrada (Planted Spiral) are a rare Barcelona example of “land art”—a concept originating in the late sixties in reaction to the rampant commercialism of the art worldhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_sol-i-ombra_02.jpgBCNFreeArt_Sol i ombra_02Beverly Pepper's Espiral arbrada (Planted Spiral, 1988) breathes a mystical and invigorating stillnesshttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_20140724_170511_01w.jpgIMG_20140724_170511_01wDetail of Cel Caigut (Fallen Sky, 1988) by the North American artist, Beverly Pepper 2019-03-02T01:33:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2014/07/23/a-monument-to-catalan-independence/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bcn_art_sculpture_r08_02w.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_R08_02wJosep Clarà i Ayat’s La Diosa (The Goddess) inhabits its own setting on the ornamental pondhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bcn_art_sculpture_r08_06w.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_R08_06wThe upside-down staircase symbolises the step-by-step construction of Catalonia’s futurehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bcn_art_sculpture_r08_03w.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_R08_03wThe Goddess by Josep Clarà i Ayat links Subirachs’ piece to the collection of earlier sculptures you can see installed around Plaça Catalunyahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bcn_art_sculpture_r08_01w.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_R08_01wFrancesc Macià was known as l'avi (the grandfather) of Catalonia2019-03-02T01:31:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2016/01/16/controversy-in-every-angle/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_001w.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_001wEvocació marinera (Evocation of Seafaring) displays characteristics that became iconic in his later work on the Sagrada Familia Churchhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_002_cropped.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_002_croppedThe piece is not meant to be a simple evocation of the sea, but of our seafaring past. So its spiked forms conjure ships’ prows, sails and peaking waves which threaten to break over fragile craft.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_20151022_164327.jpgIMG_20151022_164327Evocació marinera (Evocation of Seafaring, 1958–1960), one of Barcelona’s earliest abstract public sculptures, was originally sited in front of the Naval Authority—akin to kicking the hornet’s nest of an ageing Francoist dictatorship.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_005w-e1551487207936.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_005wForma 212 (1957) was the first abstract sculpture to be placed on the streets of Barcelona, but caused little controversy due to its removed location.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_004w-e1551488059177.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_004wFrom Noucentisme through New Figuration to full-blown abstraction, Subirachs’ art has always created polemic.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_003w-e1551487434777.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_003wThe sculpture’s surface texture recalls the degradation of bleached timbers, rotted by the elements.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_002w_01.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_002w_01The piece is not meant to be a simple evocation of the sea, but of our seafaring past. So its spiked forms conjure ships’ prows, sails and peaking waves which threaten to break over fragile craft.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bcnfreeart_jmsubirachs_r01-09_001w_01.jpgBCNFreeArt_JMSubirachs_R01-09_001w_01Evocació marinera (Evocation of Seafaring, 1958–1960), one of Barcelona’s earliest abstract public sculptures, was originally sited in front of the Naval Authority—akin to kicking the hornet’s nest of the ageing Francoist dictatorship.2019-03-02T01:29:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/contact/2019-03-02T01:20:16+00:00weekly0.6https://barcelonafreeart.net/2019/02/26/her-phoenix-gate/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fenixia03_8004072.jpgfenixia03_800@72The sculpture stakes a claim on its setting, defining as a symbolic crossing of paths what otherwise might be just a transitive spacehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fenixia02_8004072.jpgfenixia02_800@72Silvia Gubern’s Feníxia floats like a magical portal, ready to transport you into some parallel reality constructed of Barcelona’s terracotta bricks and Catalan Modernismehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fenixia01_8004072.jpgfenixia01_800@72Sited on Passeig de Jean Forestier, the installation is a stone’s throw from Montjuïc’s Magic Fountains2019-03-01T19:57:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/06/04/4/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sculpture_mxirgu2.jpgsculpture_mxirgu2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sculpture_mxirgu1.jpgsculpture_mxirgu12018-06-19T18:36:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/06/04/the-kiss-of-death/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn-free-art_sculpture_r02_kiss-of-death_01w.jpgBCN Free Art_sculpture_R02_Kiss of Death_01wFabiesi's angel and maiden (1880) presides over the pantheon of Pere Bassegodahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_elsantet.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_elsantethttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sculpture_kiss2.jpgsculpture_kiss2Details such as Death’s hollow ribs and tunic are exquisitely renderedhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sculpture_kiss11.jpgsculpture_kiss1Jaume Barba's The Kiss of Death (1930) conveys a creepy seductivenesshttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sculpture_kiss1.jpgsculpture_kiss12018-06-19T18:35:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/06/08/a-monument-to-the-little-people/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat31.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat3https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat21.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat11.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat12018-06-19T18:34:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/06/08/no-longer-an-alley-cat/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_sculpture_gat4.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_gat4https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_sculpture_gat2.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_gat2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_sculpture_gat11.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_gat1https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_sculpture_gat1.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_gat12018-06-19T18:34:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/06/16/in-search-of-the-perfect-backdrop/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame3.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame3https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame1.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame1https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame21.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame2.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_frame2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat3.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat3https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat2.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat1.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_sculpture_goliat12018-06-19T18:33:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/07/03/back-to-the-future-in-1929/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_mies_04.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_mies_04https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_mies_03.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_mies_03https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_mies_02.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_mies_02https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_mies_011.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_mies_01https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_mies_01.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_mies_012018-06-19T18:33:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/07/03/marieta-of-those-lively-eyes/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_sculpture_noia-trena_05w.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_noia-trena_05wThe sculptures in the Laribal Gardens are perfectly placed in their settinghttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_sculpture_repos_03a_w.jpgbcn_art_sculpture_repos_03a_wRepós (Rest, 1925) by Josep Viladomat, carved in rough stone that well suits her heavy reposehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_04.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_04The original Font del Gat (spring of the cat) mentioned in the popular Catalan songhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_03.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_03Jaume Ortero's Estival (Summery, 1929), makes a visit to these gardens worthwhile just to experience the harmony of this piece within its surroundings https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_02.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_02https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_01.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_laribal_012018-06-19T18:32:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/09/04/the-haunted-tower/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/barcelona_art_routes_guide_tower03.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_tower03https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/barcelona_art_routes_guide_tower02.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_tower02https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/barcelona_art_routes_guide_tower01.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_tower012018-06-19T18:32:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/09/13/lichtenstein-on-modernisme/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01-06_005w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-06_005wIt took the Badajoz artist Diego Delgado Rajado two years to produce Barcelona’s Head to Lichtenstein’s designhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01-06_004w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-06_004wBarcelona’s Head is made of eight large blocks of prefabricated artificial stone, stainless steel staples and ceramic claddinghttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01-06_003w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-06_003wThe distinctive dot background references the Ben-Day process, which was used to print shading and tonal areas in the pulp comic books of the 1950shttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01-06_002w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-06_002wThe use of trencadís, or broken tile mosaic, is a nod towards Barcelona’s Modernista heritage. It was pioneered by the architect Antoni Gaudíhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01-06_001w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-06_001wThough Barcelona’s Head is superficially reminiscent of earlier satirical works, Cubist and Modernista influences are also present, reflecting Lichtenstein’s engagement with the world of “serious” art.2018-06-19T18:31:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/09/16/a-much-loved-couple/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/barcelona_art_routes_guide_couple3.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_couple3.jpghttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/barcelona_art_routes_guide_couple2.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_couple2.jpghttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/barcelona_art_routes_guide_couple1.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_couple1.jpg2018-06-19T18:30:03+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/10/05/a-stars-injured-past/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/barcelona_art_guide_sculpture_estel_ferit3.jpgbarcelona_art_guide_sculpture_estel_ferit3https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/barcelona_art_guide_sculpture_estel_ferit21.jpgbarcelona_art_guide_sculpture_estel_ferit21https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/barcelona_art_guide_sculpture_estel_ferit1.jpgbarcelona_art_guide_sculpture_estel_ferit12018-06-19T18:29:29+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2010/10/06/caged-in-the-rain/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_juanmuc3b1oz_r01-09_005w.jpgBCNFreeArt_JuanMuñoz_R01-09_005wThe installation was meant to include water so that “rain” would perpetually fall into the cage, however, technical problems meant this feature was never implementedhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_juanmuc3b1oz_r01-09_003w.jpgBCNFreeArt_JuanMuñoz_R01-09_003wThe concurrent unity and disparity of Muñoz’s figures evoke a group of political prisoners estranged by ideological differenceshttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_juanmuc3b1oz_r01-09_002w.jpgBCNFreeArt_JuanMuñoz_R01-09_002wThough schooled from fourteen to seventeen by one of Madrid's foremost art critics, Juan Muñoz produced no sculpture of his own until the age of twenty-seven. His earliest works were surprisingly maturehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_juanmuc3b1oz_r01-09_001w.jpgBCNFreeArt_JuanMuñoz_R01-09_001wArt is the product of its surroundings, so even as the spreading trees form part of the experience, so too do the bikini-clad throngshttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_habitacio3.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_habitacio3https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_habitacio11.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_habitacio11https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/barcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_habitacio2.jpgbarcelona_art_routes_guide_sculpture_habitacio22018-06-19T18:28:33+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2011/01/15/urban-configuarations-and-the-olympic-legacy/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_config4.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_config4https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_config3.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_config3https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_config21.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_config2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_config2.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_config2https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_config1.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_config1https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_config02.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_config02Source: Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelonahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bcn_art_routes_guide_conf01.jpgbcn_art_routes_guide_conf012018-06-19T18:26:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2011/03/29/casaramona-art-nouveaus-triumphant-functionality/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/img_20140720_184216_w.jpgIMG_20140720_184216_whttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/img_20140720_184206_01w.jpgIMG_20140720_184206_01whttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/casaramona04.jpgbcn_art_guide_routes_casaramona04https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/casaramona03.jpgbcn_art_guide_routes_casaramona03https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/casaramona02.jpgbcn_art_guide_routes_casaramona02https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/casaramona011.jpgbcn_art_guide_routes_casaramona01https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/casaramona01.jpgbcn_art_guide_routes_casaramona012018-06-19T18:25:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2014/08/08/impressions-in-a-concrete-garden/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_11.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_11The site is popular with skateboarding and tagging communities, both local and out-of-townhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_10.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_10Moscrop and his mates Eli, Nesbit and Si (Lag) had come down from Newcastle (UK) to create free art in Barcelonahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_08.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_08The three chimneys are from the power plant known as La Canadenca (The Canadian), despite the fact that its founder, Pearson, was born in Massachusetts and its capital was Belgianhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_07.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_07The graffiti varies from the innocuous to wanting to convey a political messagehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_05.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_05The heavy machinery parts and chimneys are what remain of the Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company Ltd. Yes, the name was in Englishhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_04.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_04Graffiti, one of the oldest art forms, can be a unique expression of contemporary culturehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_02.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_02The Jardins de les Tres Xemeneies form an outdoor gallery, a constantly changing urban art spacehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bcnfreeart_3xemeneies_01.jpgBCNFreeArt_3xemeneies_01Spain’s hard light emphasises the graffiti’s chromatic brilliance2018-06-19T18:23:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/05/13/dancing-prawn/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bcnfreeart_r01-04_005w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-04_005wGambrinus’s sculptural volumes and bronzed patina reflect the lilac and indigo light of a Mediterranean evening beautifullyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bcnfreeart_r01-04_004w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-04_004wWith its whimsically comic air, Gambrinus brings a sense of fun to the Moll de la Fustahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bcnfreeart_r01-04_003w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-04_003wWith its whimsically comic air, Gambrinus brings a sense of fun to the Moll de la Fustahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bcnfreeart_r01-04_002w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-04_002wGambrinus, technically not a prawn at all but an escamarlà or langoustinehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bcnfreeart_r01-04_001w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01-04_001wThe series of restaurants sited along Moll de la Fusta for which Gambrinus was conceived folded shortly after the Olympic Games, and the esplanade was remodelled2018-06-19T18:22:46+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/07/09/walk-through-a-poem-in-horta/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r06-01_006.jpgBCNFreeArt_R06-01_005The ruins of the once-majestic capital A symbolise destruction, decline and of course, deathhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r06-01_005.jpgBCNFreeArt_R06-01_001Set among olives, cypresses and carobs, this Mediterranean poem in three tenses visually conjures a Greco-Roman pasthttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r06-01_004.jpgBCNFreeArt_R06-01_004Brossa’s sculptural and urban installations owe as much to his passion for the playfulness of magic as to his growing experimentation with conceptual arthttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r06-01_003.jpgBCNFreeArt_R06-01_003Punctuation symbols – “with pauses and intonations” – lead viewers on a journey, representing life’s many joys and tempestshttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r06-01_002.jpgBCNFreeArt_R06-01_002The capital A’s sharp lines erupt from the vegetation like a futurist manifestohttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r06-01_001.jpgBCNFreeArt_R06-01_006Sited on the crown of the hill to emphasise its height, the capital letter A is the first hint you have that a Brossa work inhabits the vicinity2018-06-19T18:21:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/07/16/stargazing-down-at-the-port/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcn-free-art_r01-02_006w.jpgBCN Free Art_R01-02_006wA detail only visible from the water is that each figure hides a coloured star behind its back, apparently representing the different cultures that make up Barcelona.https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcn-free-art_r01-02_004w.jpgBCN Free Art_R01-02_004wA detail only visible from the water is that each figure hides a coloured star behind its back, apparently representing the different cultures that make up Barcelonahttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcn-free-art_r01-02_003w.jpgBCN Free Art_R01-02_003w“I am interested in figuration, but not realism, to say things in images but not to compete with reality”https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcn-free-art_r01-02_002w.jpgBCN Free Art_R01-02_002whttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcn-free-art_r01-02_001w.jpgBCN Free Art_R01-02_001w2018-06-19T18:21:15+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/07/24/saint-paul-in-the-fields/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r04-01_006.jpgBCNFreeArt_R04-01_006Details throughout the church reflect its Visigothic influencehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r04-01_005.jpgBCNFreeArt_R04-01_005The capitals of the cloister’s 48 paired Corinthian columns offer Biblical and allegorical scenes along with a menagerie of griffins, lions, birds of prey and mermaidshttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r04-01_004.jpgBCNFreeArt_R04-01_004One of three domed apsides that front the single navehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r04-01_003.jpgBCNFreeArt_R04-01_003The tombs in the cloister belong to the family of the Counts of Bell-Llochhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r04-01_002.jpgBCNFreeArt_R04-01_002The cloister’s arches, unique throughout Europe, reflect a strong Muslim influence, playing with volumes and depths in Arabic stylehttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bcnfreeart_r04-01_001.jpgBCNFreeArt_R04-01_001Revolution and war have cleaned the space of extraneous decoration2018-06-19T18:20:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/09/21/anarchy-on-a-classical-plinth/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01_salvatpapasseit_04w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01_SalvatPapasseit_04wRevolution formed the basis of Salvat-Papasseit’s political education at the age of fifteen. He was a dedicated anti-capitalist and anarchisthttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01_salvatpapasseit_03w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01_SalvatPapasseit_03wSalvat-Papasseit recalls seeing “the rain / in buckets / drenching the boats, / and the coin of anguish shivering beneath the timber”https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bcnfreeart_r01_salvatpapasseit_02w.jpgBCNFreeArt_R01_SalvatPapasseit_02wThe sea was a huge influence in Salvat-Papasseit’s life. After his father’s death, he was interned in a naval orphanage2018-06-19T18:19:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/10/07/the-measure-of-a-shell/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_mariomerz_r01-08_005.jpgBCNFreeArt_MarioMerz_R01-08_005This sequence is much used in computer algorithms and is related to the so-called golden ratio, or approximately 1 to 1.618https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_mariomerz_r01-08_004w.jpgBCNFreeArt_MarioMerz_R01-08_004wIn 1202, an Italian mathematician named Leonardo Bonacci, known as Fibonacci, wrote a book, Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation), which brought the sequence to the western worldhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_mariomerz_r01-08_003w.jpgBCNFreeArt_MarioMerz_R01-08_003wThis sequence is much used in computer algorithms and is related to the so-called golden ratio, or approximately 1 to 1.618https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_mariomerz_r01-08_002w.jpgBCNFreeArt_MarioMerz_R01-08_002wThe ratio of numbers in the Fibonacci sequence defines the proportions of the nautilus shell, the branching of trees and the arrangement of leaves on a stemhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_mariomerz_r01-08_001w.jpgBCNFreeArt_MarioMerz_R01-08_001wPingala, an Indian mathematician living in either 2nd or 4th century BCE first identified the Fibonacci sequence in a study of the metre in Sanskrit poetry2018-06-19T18:18:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2015/10/25/the-weight-of-trade-in-barceloneta/https://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_jannis-kounellis_r01-11_004w.jpgBCNFreeArt_Jannis Kounellis_R01-11_004wDeterioration of the organic materials in the elements means that in recent years the sacking has rotted and coffee beans have begun to rain down on people below, so the installation has been wrapped up until it can be fully restoredhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_jannis-kounellis_r01-11_003w.jpgBCNFreeArt_Jannis Kounellis_R01-11_003wBy using coffee beans – an everyday staple of early twentieth-century Barcelona life, one that would have been unloaded at the port and yet which hails from exotic, often colonised locations such as South America – Kounellis is pointing to issues like trade, exploitation and colonializationhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_jannis-kounellis_r01-11_002w.jpgBCNFreeArt_Jannis Kounellis_R01-11_002wKounellis’s use of base materials, such as iron, sacking and coffee beans, reflects his roots in the Arte Povera (poor art) movement, where everyday and found objects were used to critique the capitalist establishmenthttps://barcelonafreeart.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bcnfreeart_jannis-kounellis_r01-11_001w.jpgBCNFreeArt_Jannis Kounellis_R01-11_001wBalança romana (Roman Scales) reflects the Barceloneta area’s past as a commercial port and comments on themes such as exploitation and colonialization2018-06-19T18:17:19+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.net/2018/03/26/from-medieval-monks-to-neon-lights/2018-06-19T18:13:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barcelonafreeart.netdaily1.02021-06-17T13:41:27+00:00