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Dancing Prawn – or what’s in a name?
Many’s the town that cheerfully flaunts some huge and dreadful object on its loftiest hilltop. Made of concrete or fibreglass, the monstrosity strives to fulfil its illusory destiny as a cultural icon....
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Stargazing down at the port
“With a desire to find something new, I always combined painting with sculpture. My works and pictorial iconography would not be complete without all those periods of ceaseless sculptural pursuit, that...
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Caged in the rain
Art is the product of its surroundings, so even as the spreading trees form part of the experience, so too do the bikini-clad throngs If you cross over Barceloneta’s Passeig Marítim in the direction of...
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Anarchy on a classical podium
Salvat-Papasseit recalls seeing “the rain / in buckets / drenching the boats, / and the coin of anguish shivering beneath the timber” Like a lone night watchman—as he was in his youth—the statue of...
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The measure of a shell
Pingala, an Indian mathematician living in either the 2nd or 4th century BCE first identified the Fibonacci sequence in a study of the metre in Sanskrit poetry Unsurprisingly, for this installation of...
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The balance of trade in Barceloneta
Balança romana (Roman Scales) echoes the Barceloneta area’s past as a commercial port and comments on themes such as exploitation and colonialism Jannis Kounellis, though Greek, was at one time, like...
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Controversy in every angle
Evocació marinera (Evocation of Seafaring, 1958–1960), one of Barcelona’s earliest abstract public sculptures, was originally sited in front of the Naval Authority—which was akin to kicking the...
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