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Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
The Columbus Monument (Monument a Colom) is a 60 m (197 ft) tall monument for Christopher Columbus at the lower end of the Barcelona Las Ramblas in front of the Old Port that was finished in 1888 in time for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona and immediately became one of the most characteristic icons of the city. It is located on the site where Columbus returned to Spain and reported to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand after his first trip to the Americas.
The statue on top of the column represents Columbus with his back to the city, his right arm extended and the index...
Columbus Monument - Monument a Colom
The Columbus Monument (Monument a Colom) is a 60 m (197 ft) tall monument for Christopher Columbus at the lower end of the Barcelona Las Ramblas in front of the Old Port that was finished in 1888 in time for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona and immediately became one of the most characteristic icons of the city. It is located on the site where Columbus returned to Spain and reported to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand after his first trip to the Americas.
The statue on top of the column represents Columbus with his back to the city, his right arm extended and the index...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
In 1981, catalan artist Antoni Tàpies was commissioned by the Barcelona City Council to create a monument to Picasso, which was unveiled in 1983 at the Passeig de Picasso in the pedestrian area that links with Ciutadella Park.
This Homenatge a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso) is a sculpture inside a glass cube measuring 4 meters along each side that covers the sculpture and protect it from the elements, surrounded by a square pool measuring 11 meters along each edge that acts as a base. The water emerges from the top of the cube and runs down its sides partially distorting the image of the...
Homenatge a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso in Barcelona)
In 1981, catalan artist Antoni Tàpies was commissioned by the Barcelona City Council to create a monument to Picasso, which was unveiled in 1983 at the Passeig de Picasso in the pedestrian area that links with Ciutadella Park.
This Homenatge a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso) is a sculpture inside a glass cube measuring 4 meters along each side that covers the sculpture and protect it from the elements, surrounded by a square pool measuring 11 meters along each edge that acts as a base. The water emerges from the top of the cube and runs down its sides partially distorting the image of the...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Joan Miró (1893-1983) was approached In 1968 with a project to design a mural for the new terminal at Barcelona Airport. He not only accepted the commission but agreed to deliver three works that would serve to welcome visitors to the city on their arrival by air, land and sea. 6 years after the Mural for the terminal, in 1976, Miró designed the Pla de l’Ós pavement, located in the middle of the Ramblas, close to the Liceu Opera House and the Boqueria market. Following the artist’s request, the pavement has not been protected as a museum piece but is treated...
Joan Miro - Pla de l’Ós pavement
Joan Miró (1893-1983) was approached In 1968 with a project to design a mural for the new terminal at Barcelona Airport. He not only accepted the commission but agreed to deliver three works that would serve to welcome visitors to the city on their arrival by air, land and sea. 6 years after the Mural for the terminal, in 1976, Miró designed the Pla de l’Ós pavement, located in the middle of the Ramblas, close to the Liceu Opera House and the Boqueria market. Following the artist’s request, the pavement has not been protected as a museum piece but is treated...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Antoni Tapies designed this surprising sculpture called Nuvol i Cadira (Cloud and chair) to crown the old modernist building from architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, former Editorial Montaner i Simon (publishing house) and current headquarters of the Antoni Tapies Foundation. It was also the intention of the artist to mark the place as a space for reflection, sitting down from the height of infinite space to watch the little things of no importance that happen on earth.
The big winding sculpture made of anodized aluminum tubes and stainless steel mesh, 12.7 x 24.0 x 6.8 m, occupies...
Antoni Tapies - Nuvol i Cadira
Antoni Tapies designed this surprising sculpture called Nuvol i Cadira (Cloud and chair) to crown the old modernist building from architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, former Editorial Montaner i Simon (publishing house) and current headquarters of the Antoni Tapies Foundation. It was also the intention of the artist to mark the place as a space for reflection, sitting down from the height of infinite space to watch the little things of no importance that happen on earth.
The big winding sculpture made of anodized aluminum tubes and stainless steel mesh, 12.7 x 24.0 x 6.8 m, occupies...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
During the Olympic Games of 1992 one of the most attractive projects of the time was a permanent exhibition of eight Sculptures and Installations through the old and renewed neighbourhoods of Barceloneta, Borne and Rivera called as a whole “Urban Configurations”. This brought to Barcelona a work from the sculptor from Madrid, Juan Muñoz. The installation was located at the Joan de Borbó stroll in the square plaza del Mar.
This work full of melancholy with the tumbler figures, so common in the work of Muñoz, inside of a room or cage without cover was inspired...
Juan Munoz - A Room Where It Always Rains
During the Olympic Games of 1992 one of the most attractive projects of the time was a permanent exhibition of eight Sculptures and Installations through the old and renewed neighbourhoods of Barceloneta, Borne and Rivera called as a whole “Urban Configurations”. This brought to Barcelona a work from the sculptor from Madrid, Juan Muñoz. The installation was located at the Joan de Borbó stroll in the square plaza del Mar.
This work full of melancholy with the tumbler figures, so common in the work of Muñoz, inside of a room or cage without cover was inspired...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Jorge Oteiza Enbil, born at Orio, Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country, worked as painter, designer and writer, and became one of the main theorists on Basque modern art.
He started his career at the end of the twenties, with primitive works. Between 1935 and 1947 he takes up a great trip abroad to South America. Upon his return to Spain, he becomes the talk at all innovation-trend exhibitions and in public projects (Basilica de Aranzazu, 1950-1969) evidently featuring international projection: in fact, he was one of the winners in the IV Biennale exhibition of Sao Paulo, 1957. During that time...
Jorge Oteiza - La Ola
Jorge Oteiza Enbil, born at Orio, Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country, worked as painter, designer and writer, and became one of the main theorists on Basque modern art.
He started his career at the end of the twenties, with primitive works. Between 1935 and 1947 he takes up a great trip abroad to South America. Upon his return to Spain, he becomes the talk at all innovation-trend exhibitions and in public projects (Basilica de Aranzazu, 1950-1969) evidently featuring international projection: in fact, he was one of the winners in the IV Biennale exhibition of Sao Paulo, 1957. During that time...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
The Dona I Ocell (Woman with Bird) sculpture is the third work that Miro gave to the city of Barcelona, the three of them of very different characteristics. The other two are in el Pla de la Boqueria at the Ramblas on the floor and a mural at Terminal B of Barcelona International Airport.
This more than 20 meters high, artificial stone partially covered with shattered ceramics, as modernist artists used in their works, reflected over an ornamental square lake, located in one corner of what was going to be a new park over what had been the slaughterhouse from 1892 till 1979 was unveiled...
Joan Miro - Dona I Ocell
The Dona I Ocell (Woman with Bird) sculpture is the third work that Miro gave to the city of Barcelona, the three of them of very different characteristics. The other two are in el Pla de la Boqueria at the Ramblas on the floor and a mural at Terminal B of Barcelona International Airport.
This more than 20 meters high, artificial stone partially covered with shattered ceramics, as modernist artists used in their works, reflected over an ornamental square lake, located in one corner of what was going to be a new park over what had been the slaughterhouse from 1892 till 1979 was unveiled...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Jaume Plensa when the Olympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona was a promising artist with only 37 years and he was invited to participate, as the Catalan contribution, in one of the most attractive projects of the time, a permanent exhibition of eight Sculptures and Installations of different European artists through the old and renewed neighbourhoods of Barceloneta, Borne and Rivera called as a whole Urban Configurations (Configuracions urbanes) .
The installation made by Jaume Plensa conformed by balls, letters and a trunk called “Born”, came to remember the activity...
Jaume Plensa - Born - Urban Configurations
Jaume Plensa when the Olympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona was a promising artist with only 37 years and he was invited to participate, as the Catalan contribution, in one of the most attractive projects of the time, a permanent exhibition of eight Sculptures and Installations of different European artists through the old and renewed neighbourhoods of Barceloneta, Borne and Rivera called as a whole Urban Configurations (Configuracions urbanes) .
The installation made by Jaume Plensa conformed by balls, letters and a trunk called “Born”, came to remember the activity...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
The Barcelona Pavilion is known as one of Mies van der Rohe‘s main works. However few observations have been made regarding Georg Kolbe’s sculpture Morning, which plays an important role as an integral component of architecture inside the building.
It is surprising also that the statue was not created for the Barcelona Pavilion, into which it was so successfully adapted. Together with the female figure Evening, Kolbe had made it for Ceciliengärten,“ the residential estate of Heinrich Lassen in Berlin-Schöneberg, where both works stood opposite one another on the...
Georg Kolbe - The Morning - Dawn
The Barcelona Pavilion is known as one of Mies van der Rohe‘s main works. However few observations have been made regarding Georg Kolbe’s sculpture Morning, which plays an important role as an integral component of architecture inside the building.
It is surprising also that the statue was not created for the Barcelona Pavilion, into which it was so successfully adapted. Together with the female figure Evening, Kolbe had made it for Ceciliengärten,“ the residential estate of Heinrich Lassen in Berlin-Schöneberg, where both works stood opposite one another on the...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
The Mural de les Olles from Frederic Amat was inaugurated in 2001. It is a link of union among the new glass building of the Institut del Teatre and the back wall of the Mercat de les Flors. The Mural is formed by an endless amount of flattened pots, cracked open, before being cooked, and pierced like bodily organs, that cover completely the back wall of the Mercat de les Flors Theatre and two doors of forged iron. It is difficult to be seeing as there is no big perspective; a different view is from the inside of the Institute, through the glass windows.
The Ciutat del Teatre (Theatre City)...
Frederic Amat - Mural de le Olles
The Mural de les Olles from Frederic Amat was inaugurated in 2001. It is a link of union among the new glass building of the Institut del Teatre and the back wall of the Mercat de les Flors. The Mural is formed by an endless amount of flattened pots, cracked open, before being cooked, and pierced like bodily organs, that cover completely the back wall of the Mercat de les Flors Theatre and two doors of forged iron. It is difficult to be seeing as there is no big perspective; a different view is from the inside of the Institute, through the glass windows.
The Ciutat del Teatre (Theatre City)...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
The Olympic games of 92 served Barcelona to develop many abandoned areas of the city. One of the most important areas included The Olympic Village, the Olympic Port with the two towers (Mapfre Tower & Hotel Arts) and the big fish sculpture from Frank Gehry on the Gardens of the hotel and all the water front with the new beaches of Nova Icària, Bogatell, Mar Bella, Nova Mar Bella.
The giant copper "Peix" sculpture (35 meters x 54 meters) in the Olympic Port was a landmark in the history of Frank O. Gehry & Associates, inaugurating the firm's use of computer-aided design...
Frank Gehry - Fish - Peix
The Olympic games of 92 served Barcelona to develop many abandoned areas of the city. One of the most important areas included The Olympic Village, the Olympic Port with the two towers (Mapfre Tower & Hotel Arts) and the big fish sculpture from Frank Gehry on the Gardens of the hotel and all the water front with the new beaches of Nova Icària, Bogatell, Mar Bella, Nova Mar Bella.
The giant copper "Peix" sculpture (35 meters x 54 meters) in the Olympic Port was a landmark in the history of Frank O. Gehry & Associates, inaugurating the firm's use of computer-aided design...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
There are some times that it looks difficult for a sculpture to find a place in a city. It is what it has happen to this big bronze sculpture of the Cat (seven metres long and two tons of weight) from Fernando Botero. First installed in the Ciutadella Park in 1989, was moved because of the Olympic Games in 1992 to the Montjuich Mountain close to the Olympic Stadium, but it did not stay long in this second emplacement; and only some months after the Olympics, by express wish of the sculptor, was moved to a small square on the rear wall of Drassanes building that did not made happy to anybody,...
Fernando Botero - CAT
There are some times that it looks difficult for a sculpture to find a place in a city. It is what it has happen to this big bronze sculpture of the Cat (seven metres long and two tons of weight) from Fernando Botero. First installed in the Ciutadella Park in 1989, was moved because of the Olympic Games in 1992 to the Montjuich Mountain close to the Olympic Stadium, but it did not stay long in this second emplacement; and only some months after the Olympics, by express wish of the sculptor, was moved to a small square on the rear wall of Drassanes building that did not made happy to anybody,...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Topos V was placed on the location chosen by the sculptor himself, on the only open corner of this medieval square (Plaça del Rei, where the story says that the kings of Spain Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragon received Christopher Columbus when he came back after discovering America), acting like another medieval building closing this open corner. The architectural character of the sculpture with the semicircular arches like windows, gets even clearer with the name given that comes from the Greek word topos, meaning space or place.
These seven tons of cast iron was unveiled...
Eduardo Chillida - TOPOS V
Topos V was placed on the location chosen by the sculptor himself, on the only open corner of this medieval square (Plaça del Rei, where the story says that the kings of Spain Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragon received Christopher Columbus when he came back after discovering America), acting like another medieval building closing this open corner. The architectural character of the sculpture with the semicircular arches like windows, gets even clearer with the name given that comes from the Greek word topos, meaning space or place.
These seven tons of cast iron was unveiled...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Few works done fort he Olympic games have become so controversial as these Pergolas in the Icaria Avenue done by the architects Carme Pinós and Enric Miralles. The fact that the underground of the Avenue was an immense sewer did not allowed to plant trees on it. So in July of 1992 the Pergolas were installed but on a size much more reduced than the original project designed by Pinós and Miralles as a procession of gigantic metallic trees of four meters height and that should had approach to the buildings covering the whole avenue. The poor result created much more contrary opinions...
Carme Pinos y Enric Miralles - Pergolas
Few works done fort he Olympic games have become so controversial as these Pergolas in the Icaria Avenue done by the architects Carme Pinós and Enric Miralles. The fact that the underground of the Avenue was an immense sewer did not allowed to plant trees on it. So in July of 1992 the Pergolas were installed but on a size much more reduced than the original project designed by Pinós and Miralles as a procession of gigantic metallic trees of four meters height and that should had approach to the buildings covering the whole avenue. The poor result created much more contrary opinions...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
This sculpture of Neptune seated on a rock was made by sculptor Adrià Ferran and inaugurated in 1826 on the area of the old port of Barcelona at the Pla de Palau, to oversee all those who arrive or depart from the port. Some years later the sphinxes located at the statue’s feet where added by sculptor Celdoni Guixà to the monument. Changes on the functioning of the port in 1919 obliged to dismantle the monument and was moved to a new emplacement in one of the parks at the Montjüic hillside that was being converted to gardens at the time. But in 1975 because of the construction...
Adria Ferran i Celdoni Guixa - Font de Neptu
This sculpture of Neptune seated on a rock was made by sculptor Adrià Ferran and inaugurated in 1826 on the area of the old port of Barcelona at the Pla de Palau, to oversee all those who arrive or depart from the port. Some years later the sphinxes located at the statue’s feet where added by sculptor Celdoni Guixà to the monument. Changes on the functioning of the port in 1919 obliged to dismantle the monument and was moved to a new emplacement in one of the parks at the Montjüic hillside that was being converted to gardens at the time. But in 1975 because of the construction...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
This big public sculpture, titled Monument, more than 8 meters tall, is a large-scale version from the original in wood, 80 centimeters high, executed in 1935 by the Catalan surrealist sculptor born in Lleida on 1908 Leandre Cristòfol. It is his first work to appear in Barcelona and was chosen by him when the City Hall offered a place on the new public square, George Orwell square, that had been created after cleaning up from old buildings the space in between the streets of Escudellers, Arenes and Arai. It was unveiled in September of 1991, eight years before the death...
Leandre Cristofol - Monument
This big public sculpture, titled Monument, more than 8 meters tall, is a large-scale version from the original in wood, 80 centimeters high, executed in 1935 by the Catalan surrealist sculptor born in Lleida on 1908 Leandre Cristòfol. It is his first work to appear in Barcelona and was chosen by him when the City Hall offered a place on the new public square, George Orwell square, that had been created after cleaning up from old buildings the space in between the streets of Escudellers, Arenes and Arai. It was unveiled in September of 1991, eight years before the death...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Cap de Barcelona (Barcelona Head) is a sculpture made by Roy Lichtenstein. At the first moment when the agreement between the artists and the Ajuntament (City Hall) de Barcelona was settled it was the Creuta del Coll Park the place chosen as location for the sculpture, but on seeing the prototype made by the artist in 1991 in New york both parts decided to move Lichtenstein’s work from the mountains to the sea and in 1992 just before the Olympic Games it was set into place at the water's edge in the old port. The sculpture was placed to serve as one icon for the visitors of Barcelona through...
Roy Lichtenstein - Cap de Barcelona
Cap de Barcelona (Barcelona Head) is a sculpture made by Roy Lichtenstein. At the first moment when the agreement between the artists and the Ajuntament (City Hall) de Barcelona was settled it was the Creuta del Coll Park the place chosen as location for the sculpture, but on seeing the prototype made by the artist in 1991 in New york both parts decided to move Lichtenstein’s work from the mountains to the sea and in 1992 just before the Olympic Games it was set into place at the water's edge in the old port. The sculpture was placed to serve as one icon for the visitors of Barcelona through...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
The inscription on the monument says: “The Counsellor in chief Rafael de Casanova fell wounded here defending the freedom of Catalunya …… Casanovas was forced to accept the Capitulation of the City on 11 September 1714. The victory of Philip V brought the suppression of the “Consell de Cent” and of the Catalan Constitution.”
Its first emplacement was at the Saló de Sant Joan (actually Passeig de Lluis Companys) as it was made for the 1888 Universal Exhibition to be placed, together with seven other sculptures of famous figures from Catalan...
Rossend Nobas, Josep Llimona - A Rafael Casanova
The inscription on the monument says: “The Counsellor in chief Rafael de Casanova fell wounded here defending the freedom of Catalunya …… Casanovas was forced to accept the Capitulation of the City on 11 September 1714. The victory of Philip V brought the suppression of the “Consell de Cent” and of the Catalan Constitution.”
Its first emplacement was at the Saló de Sant Joan (actually Passeig de Lluis Companys) as it was made for the 1888 Universal Exhibition to be placed, together with seven other sculptures of famous figures from Catalan...
Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures
Plaça de Tetuan, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Passeig de Sant Joan
The monument projected by the architect Domènech i Montaner, was ultimately carried out by the sculptor Josep Llimona, according to the draft of Domenech. Built between 1904 and 1910 and stood originally in Plaça de la Universitat. The materials used were stone and bronze and it was an allegory to the Catalan people, to nationalism, to poetry, to farmers and industrial workers, with the spiritual advice of poet Verdaguer, and also remembered the medical profession of Dr. Robert. The sculptures were made...
Monument al Doctor Robert
Plaça de Tetuan, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Passeig de Sant Joan
The monument projected by the architect Domènech i Montaner, was ultimately carried out by the sculptor Josep Llimona, according to the draft of Domenech. Built between 1904 and 1910 and stood originally in Plaça de la Universitat. The materials used were stone and bronze and it was an allegory to the Catalan people, to nationalism, to poetry, to farmers and industrial workers, with the spiritual advice of poet Verdaguer, and also remembered the medical profession of Dr. Robert. The sculptures were made...
