There are four cubes, huge in their entirety, which attract the attention of all those who approach the beach of Barcelona, one of the urban beaches of the Catalan capital, wondering who will have put them there, in the middle of the sand. Or what will be made.
Really, as a whole, They are called injured star or Estel Ferit in Catalan. They are the work of the German artist Rebecca Horn, who curiously He lived with 20 years in the Barcelona of the 60s. They add ten meters. Specifically, they are located between the Wela Hotel and the Hospital del Mar. and They are made of steel.
Was Inaugurated in 1992within the framework of the Olympic Games that locked the city for 15 days … and many more years. And was commissioned to an artist who had a reputation of prolific and multidisciplinary.
Several theories
There are several theories to try to succeed the meaning of the work that is currently meat of numerous photographs taken with smartphones: a tribute to the missing chiringuitos just before the OLAs or the small floors, of 30 square meters, which were piled up in the Barceloneta neighborhood to try to accommodate the numerous workers of the nearby port of the city. A clear tribute, in any case, to Barcelona prior to the Olympic Games.
The cubes, as defined by the majority of tourists who photographed them, are part of A maritime landscape of curious sculptures and that attract the attention of every curious traveler, which also includes Gehry’s fish or Marshal Gamba.
Born in Michelstadt in 1944, the artist who brought four huge cubes to the waves of the Mediterranean He died at 80 years of age. And, although many do not even know their name when they return to their countries of origin with their photographed sculpture, he was an artist who left almost none of his spectators … indifferent.
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