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Barcelona is divided into 10 districts. In these districts are the famous neighbourhoods that you but with proper planning you can, in a few days time,
Barce
The largest and therefore the most populated district in Barcelona’s Example. This not miss this neighbourhood is world famous thanks to Gaudi. Gaudi is still an
The district of Ciutat Vella is the historic center of Barcelona. It includes the typical neighbourhoods Gothic Quarter, El Born and Raval. Remarka
Gothic Quarter is without doubt one of the oldest and most interesting neighbourhoods of Barcelona. Wander around in the narrow alleys, settle down on a terrace at one of In
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u definitely should not miss! The highlights of Barcelona are quite scattered throughout the city, discover all the interesting areas of the bustling metropolis.
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n example for the scientific planning. Here you will find among others the Sagrada Familia, many modernist buildings and the shopping street Passeig de Gracia.
able to see that the neighbourhoods all tell their own story because they all filled an entirely different role in the fascinating history of the city.
f the many squares or shop till you drop! The hip Raval is the westernmost district of the old city of Barcelona. Raval is multicultural and has a somewhat alternative character.
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The monastery was founded by Queen Elisenda de Montcada. Her husband, King Jacob II (Jaume II), supported her and dedicated the monastery to Holy Mary. Ever since, it has been administered by the nuns of the Order of Saint Clare. Since the monastery was built in just one year, it was not influenced by any other architectural styles
The Park Güell is a composed of gardens elements located Barcelona (Spain). the mountain range
public park system and architectonic on Carmelo Hill, in Carmelo Hill belongs to of Sierra de Collserola
the Parque del Carmelo face. Park Güell is located in in the Gràcia district
is located on the northern La Salut, a neighbourhood of Barcelona.
With urbanization in assignedthe design Gaudí, a renownedof Catalonian modernism. 1900 and 1914 opened as a public UNESCO declared the Site under “Works
Park Guell
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mind, Eusebi Güell of the park to Antoni architect and the face The park was built between and was officially park in 1926. In 1984, park a World Heritage of Antoni Gaudí”
The former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau English: Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) in the neighbourhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is a complex built between 1901 and 1930, designed by the Catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Although the hospital’s current date from the 20th century, the de la Santa Creu was founded when six small medieval hospitals
buildings Hospital in 1401 merged.
Together with Palau de la Música Catalana, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009. As of December 2013 there are still tours of the hospital being given several times a day.
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The monastery of Pedralbes, in Catalan Monestir de Pedralbes, is one of the finest examples of Catalan Gothic in Barcelona. The building from the early 14th century shows the everyday life of nuns. Religious art from the 14th to the 20th century is displayed in the monastery museum. Highlights are the three-storey cloister and the gardens inside the monastery.
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The Gran Teatre del Liceu is one of the most important opera houses in Europe and one of the most beautiful attractions of Barcelona. The greatest singers of the last two decades performed the most important classic oeuvres at this opera. Performers like Domingo, Pavarotti, Caballé, Callas or Tebaldi will always have a special place in the hearts of the audience. The Gran Teatre del Liceu is also place of the second largest Wagner Festival, the largest taking place in Bayreuth, Germany. The Gran Teatre del Liceu can be visited daily with a variety of tours. Here, the most important and representative rooms can be visited: The Express Tour is a short, approximately 20 minute tour of the main areas of the house. Here you’ll see the foyer, the hall of mirrors, some theatre boxes and the large hall.
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Fabra i coats - creation factory gives support to artistic creation and has workspaces for the performing arts, music, plastic and visual arts and multimedia creation.
Fabra i Coats
After almost a decade in de Catalunya – Catalonia’s into this modern 2012. It’s a glass, metal and in the midst of the most but the building’s interior and space, wall-to-wall glass panels that In addition to two cinema seats, the Filmoteca bookshop, a cafe, offices exhibitions. This is mainly though, which is being cultural turning point for its Filmoteca’s screenings of writing include themes The Garden’, and
Fabra i Coats is a multidisciplinary space which will be promoting artistic hybridisation to become a point of reference in artistic research and in the generation of new quality contents, as well as a meeting point for groups, creators and proposals from different spheres and backgrounds. The goal of Fabra i Coats – Creation Factory is to give support to artistic creation and it has workspaces for the performing arts, music, plastic and visual arts, multimedia creation and also for projects relating to information and communication technology
Filmoteca de Catalunya
the planning, the Filmoteca national cinema – moved 6000-sq-metre building in concrete beast that hulks louche part of the Raval, shouts revival, with light windows, skylights and let the sun in. screens totaling 555 comprises a film library, a and a dedicated space for a film archive space, hailed as the marker of a new neighbourhood. The and exhibitions at the time such as ‘The Cinema and ‘Popular Comedy’.
Urban art gallery
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Since opening its doors in 2003, Base Elements has functioned as a multifaceted gallery- acting as both a workshop and studio- where space and forum collide. There is no doubt that Barcelona is one of the world’s hubs for Graffiti and Street Art. The walls and buildings of the city have become a canvas for both unknown taggers and globally known urban artists. With the concept of providing a literal and figurative canvas for such independent artists, Robert Burt (California native) and his wife Monica Riu (Barcelona Native) founded Base Elements Urban Art Gallery in 2003 with hopes of creating a space where such street artists could not only showcase their talents, but also be embraced as true artists. Current exhibiting artists include: Btoy, Pez, Kenor, Oriol, Zosen, Tom 14, Pezkhamino, Juan Pajares, Monix, Kram, Robert Burt, etc.
When you walk by graffiti in the street, do you take the time to study it? Do you look at its composition to determine the intention of the person behind the spray paint can? If you do, you may notice that there are identifiable styles or types of graffiti. From the simple, quickly-done tags to the elaborate and often breathtaking full-wall pieces, graffiti runs the gamut. There’s a whole language and complicated hierarchy of graffiti out there that most people simply walk by every day without noticing.
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STREET ART MURALS A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture. Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall (e.g., with marouflage). Whether these works can be accurately called “murals� is a subject of some controversy in the art world, but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th century.
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STENCILLING Stencilling produces an image or pattern by applying pigment to a surface over an intermediate object with designed gaps in it which create the pattern or image by only allowing the pigment to reach some parts of the surface. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended. In practice, the (object) stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material.
TAGGING For the artist who wishes to Tag his or her name on any given wall, Graffiti Studio helps to provide the smoothest techniques for Tagging. A novice Street Artist may scribble his or her name in any old random fashion on a wall. Sometimes, it does not even look like the same artist’s signature. A Tag like that is easy to forge by anyone. Graffiti Studio can not only help an artist find their own signature, but also help the Street Artist keep it unique and consistent, so anyone viewing the signature knows that a particular Street Artist really was there. Even if Tagging is done with markers, or pens, it should always look similar as when it is done with spray paint.
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STICKER & POSTER Stickers and Posters are common types of Street Art that are used to advertise and promote people, places, things, or events. This kind of Street Art can be temporary or permanent, but it is more important that they catch people’s eyes in order to receive attention from potential customers, or anyone who may be interested in such matters. Posters are usually handmade or printed graphics on thin paper. It can be understood as an art piece that is installed on the streets as opposed to in a gallery or museum, but by some it is not comprehended as a form of contemporary art.
WHEAT PASTE Street Artists can use Wheat Paste to glue items of interest to certain landmarks. Wheat Paste is an adhesive, constructed with wheat, and it is strong enough to hold together a variety of items on any surface for a long time. Graffiti Studio determines when, and where, it is appropriate to apply Wheat Paste. Wheat Paste also continues to hold up in most unfavourable weather conditions. Graffiti Studio provides other methods on how Wheat Paste can be used. The big advantage of wheat-paste is that it’s difficult to remove. If made correctly it will withstand al sorts of weather and won’t be able to come off by hand.
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Born in Buenos Aires, Zosen came to Barcelona in 1989 at the age of 12 with his Spanish-born mother and Argentinian father. A celebrated street artist, his distinctive, largely political artworks have been exhibited in streets and galleries around the world, most recently StolenSpace in London. He runs graffiti workshops in Barcelona and is co-founder of street wear label Animal Bandido with Catalan designer Clàudia Font. Did you rather grow up in Argentina or here in Barcelona? I am really happy to have grown up here in Europe as I think people are more open-minded. The South American mentality has changed a lot with the Internet, but it used to be very U.S. influenced. How would you describe yourself? I’m an anarchist. I think my family’s experience and background, coming from Argentina when it was under a dictatorship, shaped my life. Maybe with a different background, I would have been a lawyer or done something more mainstream, but there are a lot of artists and actors in my family. When did you start with graffiti? I began spraying graffiti when I was 11 in Buenos Aires. I started riding a skateboard at the same time. I wrote silly things, like the name of the gang of skaters I was with. Did you ever think that you would become an artist? I never thought about becoming an artist. When I started, graffiti wasn’t the big movement it is today; it was very underground and you certainly didn’t make money from it. I was a postman for a while, and I worked in a warehouse while I was studying art and design. Who where your idols, too who did you look up to? My early influences were the other graffiti artists in my neighbourhood. We used to go around discovering new walls, new murals. Now with the Internet, you can see graffiti from home—the new generation don’t have the experience of discovering a wall by a certain artist. Where did you do most of your earlier work? We used to meet up in Plaça Universitat every Sunday morning with our boom boxes and skateboards. They used
Interview with to have legal murals on the metro, but it stopped around the time of the Olympics. It was like a big family; we all knew each other because there weren’t that many people doing it then. When do you say that graffiti became more open? The scene exploded around 92/93. Suddenly, there were all these video clips on TV, MTV was born. People from the suburbs started to write. At that time, you could recognise a graffiti writer from his hip hop style clothes. Nowadays it’s impossible to tell. When do think about graffiti artist that do a lot of gallery work? I like that people can make money doing something they love. It’s a profession and pretty respectable. What’s nowadays the main trend on the street? Maybe I’m getting old, but I think nowadays fashion and music trends change too fast. No one buys music anymore but I still have all my cassettes and vinyl. My generation had photocopied fanzines and there was a network of people sending pictures of their art to fans and other artists around the world. How would you describe the Barcelona theme? Barcelona graffiti is really colourful and free. I don’t know if it’s because of the sea or the history of anarchists living here but, in the late Nineties, we started to experiment and go further with it. It wasn’t an organised movement, it just happened. Have you ever been arrested doing graffiti? I have been in trouble many times. Sometimes they caught me bombing in the subway when I was a child, but when we were painting the murals with big colours, I never ran. The police would arrive and I would speak to them and say “Look, I know the spots you need to choose to paint. I would never paint new places or monuments. We are just doing free art on old buildings.” I’d still get fined though. Is there a lot changed in years here in Barcelona? The city has changed a lot. Now they fine you just for drinking a beer in the street. We live in a hot Mediterranean city, so if people want to hang out and drink beer, why shouldn’t they?
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Bread and Butter The Urban tradeshow BREAD & BUTTER – TRADESHOW FOR SELECTED BRANDS
business. The brands exhibiting at BREAD & BUTTER present themselves integrally, in keeping with their individual philosophy and within their own brand culture and emotional setting.
With its ‘tradeshow for selected brands’, BREAD & BUTTER realizes the concept of an one-of-a-kind trade fair event for contemporary clothing culture.
With approx. 500 exhibitors from the sectors of Denim, Sportswear, Street Fashion, Function Wear and Casual Dressed Up, BREAD & BUTTER represents the contemporary segment of Street and Urbanwear.
The internationally leading trade show provides a creative marketing and communication platform for selected brands, labels and designers from the progressive segment that is unrivalled throughout the world. Under the maxim “fun & profit”, BREAD & BUTTER unites inspiration and
With its exclusive brand portfolio and recognition from the European and global textile industry, which has grown and has established itself over the last thirteen years, the leading trade fair and superior trademark BREAD & BUTTER provides a unique and extremely popular meeting point for buyers, retailers and press representatives from the textile industry. BREAD & BUTTER was founded in 2001, it has been held twice a year in January and July ever since. Following three events in Cologne, BREAD & BUTTER moved to Berlin in January 2003. With Barcelona as its second location from July 2005 on, BREAD & BUTTER took place both in Berlin and Barcelona, and from July 2007 to January 2009, BREAD & BUTTER was held exclusively in Barcelona. In July 2009 BREAD & BUTTER returned to Berlin and has since then always taken place at the historic Berlin-Tempelhof Airport.
A new step towards the future was made with the decision to host a show in Seoul, South Korea in September 2015. Karl-Heinz Müller presented the idea in July 2014 and a very successful “Welcome Event” was held on 12th September 2014 on the remarkable Floating Islands in Seoul. The event was a huge success and the industry welcomes this decision. Herewith, BREAD & BUTTER once again sets a milestone in its history and builds the bridge for Europe to the Asian market. The next BREAD & BUTTER show will be held from 8th until the 10th of January 2015 at the Fira de Barcelona.