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ONLY BE BARCELONIAN
Only-Be Barcelonian
Ca l´Isidre Restaurant Barcelona
Ca l´Isidre is a restaurant which opened in 1970 and is located in the old town of Barcelona. It mixes traditional Catalan and Mediterranean cuisine.
Cal Pep Restaurant Barcelona
Cal Pep possesses a nouvelle cuisine propsal that doesn´t follow the traditional format of starter, main course and dessert, but a more fresh and alive way of understanding
In the laberynth. Àngels Ribé 1969-198 at MACBA
The Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) has re-edited the work by Àngels Ribé, En el Laberinto, in an attempt to spotlight the lesser known work of the Catalan conceptual sculptor. The exhibition, curated by Teresa Grandas, will be on until the 23rd of October. Àngels Ribé is an artist well known in the trajectory of Spanish art. He was part of the group of Catalan artists who revolutionised the aesthetics of art during the 1970s, with their conceptual approach. Ribé moved to Paris, and begun to study the concepts of shape, and volume – elements which would go on to be central to his subsequent work. These were also the years during which public space started to be used by artists as a place for protest against the immobilisation, and conservatism of the big museums. Ribé seized public space in order to be able to show his sculptures outdoors, in parks, where he would invite children to climb the En el Laberinto piece. The work marks out a path – a labyrinth – as a way of carrying out different actions, and occupying public space; filling the landscape with materials, including the body itself, as an object. His constant search for materials derived from nature, such as water, light, polyester and others in order to create his art places him in the European Land Art genre. Land Art is a strand of contemporary art which uses nature, or a part of it, as a conceptual starting point, and also for the materials of the work. It´s also been used in reference to those who use nature in order...
Video mapping. CaixaForum Barcelona
In August, the people from Barcelona and the tourists that are in the city should sharpen their senses to be able to enjoy on Wednesdays, between 10.30pm and 11pm, a image show of light and colour that CaixaForum is going to present: it´s Video Mapping. The Telenoika will be in charge of this activity. They´re an artist collective from Barcelona that succesfully perform this format and they´ve become a national reference of this artistic discipline. Video mapping is a technique which consists of projecting images, generally inanimate ones, on real surfaces. The interesting thing is that optical illusion that they cause with the 3D movement that they make of a static building, one in permanent movement. This is an ideal show for crowds. In these cases, they usually project the images on buildings, along with sound effects that bring spectacular results and the highest feeling of realism. On this occasion, Telenoika invites us to encounter surprises, illusions, sensations, tense atmospheres and small stories that will be in the second and third dimension. This will come with something that this collective know how to do well, electronic sound system music accompanied by sound effects. The transformation of a real space into an imaginary one is surprising on video mapping. Some have defined it as architecture in movement, because it´s on the surface of a building that other buildings or landscapes appear and disappear, melting perfectly, and they completely transform the visual landscape. Sometimes a building can collapse in front of you, or from its windows ghost images can appear. It´s a sort of mirage that doesn´t leave the crowd indifferent....
Circuit Festival in Barcelona
It´s summer and there is one more song to dance. Since ancient times, dance has represented a moment of union, harmony, movement, lust and sensuality. Dancing is the body in all its positions in all its conditions and desires. Dancing is also a protest. Nothing better than give everything on the dance floor to protest against injustice, indifference, lack of tolerance and the evil things that governs the world. Dancing is liberating, dancing is to dream while being awake. Circuit Festival Barcelona comes again with the best electronic music, the best DJ´s and so much fun for everyone. The circuit began back in 2008, with the intention of satisfying the international gay community, which is always ready to enjoy the best, most exquisite and most spectacular festivals. They always look for new entertainment options, while always seeking to break barriers and borders. One of the most beautiful things of the LGBT community is that the most of its members are single, or couples without children, so they have a huge ability to travel and search for fun that never ends. You could say that the Circuit Festival is one of the pioneer festivals among the LGBT community; it is a fun option for holidays for an audience as sophisticated as the lesbian and gay community. And it´s true; August is one of the busiest, hot months in the summer. Usually, people from Barcelona travel away from the city while foreigners from all latitudes, come to this luminous city to visit its beautiful beaches at really affordable prices in comparison to other parts of Europe. If you are strategically located...
Josep María Sert in Barcelona: Photo Archive
Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona currently exhibits a photographic archive that gave life to the work of Catalan artist Josep Maria Sert. The Photographic Archive of the Model, which will be on display until the 11th of September, is organized with the best photographs of artist, the ones that he used as a basis for his works for Leonard Manzini. The exhibition The Photographic Archive of the model is exactly what its title suggests. Manzini was Josep Maria Sert`s photo lab assistant, particularly his personal carpenter, paint assistant and model. Through Manzini´s photos, it is possible to perceive the refined Josep Maria Sert´s work, his mental architecture and aesthetic that make him a truly modernist photographer. These photographs were the Sert´s study material for his murals. Josep Maria Sert was born in Barcelona in 1875, part of a wealthy family of textile manufacturers. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona as well as in various private art schools. Despite his studies in painting and his famous virtuosity, he became part of the Pre-Raphaelites and Symbolists, rejecting the academism in arts, because they considered that its dominant mannerism led arts to become empty, false and meaningless. Most of his career took place in Paris, where he became part of the Nabi group, in which he was able to socialize and extend his ties with the Parisian art world. In 1999 he was asked to decorate the LÁrt Nouveau Pavilion at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900. That same year, he was also asked to decorate the Cathedral of San Pedro de Vic in Barcelona. Sert despite...
The Library of Catalonia
Public libraries have always been welcoming places for the homeless. Just think of Paris, whose libraries are inseparable from the image of the clochards, who spend the winter in them. It is said that among the clochards from Paris you find the wisest men and women of the city. If they have attained wisdom as a result of their status in the libraries of the city or if it is something older than that, then the cause of their particular choice of lifestyle continues to be a matter of dispute. It would be wrong however to assume that they are drunk. As the great writer and consummate drunk Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) said “The homeless who drink tend not to visit the library when they have enough money to pay their dosage of wine. However, they hardly find a better place to hang out when they have nothing to eat or drink. After all, at least in the library they can use the toilets for free, they are warm in winter and you can enjoy the silence and infinite possiblities to live other lives. Charles Bukowski knows what he´s talking about. After all, in his youth he was one of those homeless people who drank, read and starved to be a writer. It was in Los Angeles Public Library where he spent decades. After devouring entire sections of books which usually had no meaning at all to him, one day he came across a copy of a novel called Ask the Dust, by John Fante, who definitely set his vocation against any type of adversity as a writer and his...Joan Miró Foundation
The Joan Miró Foundation, located in Barcelona, has some of the most important works in Spain.
Barcelona Literary Routes
Many tourists in Barcelona are just satisfied by proving that they walked into La Sagrada Familia Church, their hands touched Antoni Gaudi’s dragon or that their palate tasted the absinthe at Marsella Bar, while they remembered Hemingway. Other tourists play the role of being literary detectives. Their mission lies in finding the places that inspired writers like Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Ildefonso Falcones or Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Barcelona’s literary routes invite us on an excursion through the city in fiction times. Some tourists make a journey back in time to the 1970’s, to get into the character of the detective Pepe Carvahlo, the hero of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s novels. From Galicia originally, his character is known for his like for pa amb tomàquet as well as for the girls who offered sex in the streets of the Chinese Town, which was the former name of the Raval Neighborhood. The fans of crime fiction know that the Boadas Bar has served as the scene of their stories and they will not hesitate to order the Mediterranean menu Pepe Carvhalo in the Casa Leopoldo Restaurant. Other tourists will book a room at the Hotel Barceló Fraval, a building made of iron that has a terrace and pink lighting at night, whose structure is located in a square named Manual Vásquez Montalbán. Since the moment the novel “Olympic Sabotage” was launched, which is about the transformation of Barcelona before the Olympic games of 1992, the cityscape that Carvhalo fell in love with, has metamorphosed. Booking a ticket for a literary route is wandering around the current city of Barcelona, but from the...
Judas Priest, Motorhead and Saxon at the Olympic Pavillion in Barcelona
An unmissable night, at least for heavy metal lovers, on August 2nd in the Olympic Pavillion in Barcelona, which will host the reunion of three of the most famous bands of this genre: Judas Priest, Motorhead and Saxon. The concert will start at midnight and the ticket prices range from 53 to 115 euros. The three bands that will take part in this heavy metal festival belong to the historical British musical movement known as ´New Wave of British Heavy Metal´. They were founded in the 70s and, along the years, they modified their style and band members many times, but never losing the energy that has characterized them since their beginnings. Judas Priest is one of the most influential bands in the history of heavy metal and they´re considered to be among those who develop this genre the most. Created in 1969 in Birmingham, UK, their influences are the greats of psychedelic and progressive rock, pure rock like Cream. Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, although from the beginning they tried to difference themselves from the rest of dominating style trends of the time, putting forward a type of music that was more raw, metallic and thundering. The name ´Judas Priest´ was chosen by Bruno Stapenhill, who found it in the Bob Dylan song “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest”. Judas Priest defined their music in the 1970s, the years of their success and the beginning of the “new wave of British heavy metal”, to which Motorhead and Saxon added themselves to. Motorhead is another British band created in 1975 by Lemmy Kilmster, bass...Promotions
