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Maeght Gallery Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be, Practical Guide to Barcelona

One of the homes of the emblematic Maeght Gallery in Paris, located in the best area in Barcelona.

Joan Gaspar Gallery Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be, Restaurantes

Founded in 1992, it dedicates itself to promote young artists and contemporary art.

The Temple of Augustus in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

In the first part of the entry on Barcelona hermetic, we referred to a chapter of the book by the Samoan writer Albert Hanover, Modelo de Espaldas (Behind the Model). As a game, with the number of God´s names according to the Kabbalah, there are about 73 seductive and sinking pages, which make up a strong maze of mirrors which is reflected, in an endless dance of masks among apocryphal and other realities well documented; the thousand and one faces of the Secret History of the Kabbalistic Barcelona (including its close relationship with Isaac the “blind” and the critical circle of Girona), alchemy, mysterious and magical, from the prehistoric dolmens and monoliths to the modern manifestation of Montesa Templar order, in motorcycle brand bearing the same name, through the Masonic Gnostic resonances octagons of the Eixample and the modernist architecture among other remarkable things. The same way, as throughout the chapter is particularly hard to distinguish on the other feature that is common to almost all the work written by Hanover, in which it is quite difficult to discover what information and characters are real and which are the result of the fable created by the author -noting the arbitrariness of any construction of meaning and the way we create and transfer what we call culture, if what we are reading is nothing more than a joke of gigantic and fantastic proportions, perhaps it did not constitute proof of its authenticity, because the texts are abundant in the East and West since ancient times considered the laughter, and its momentary collapse of the prevailing reality principle, as one of... read more