Barcelona 2019




Over the three week easter, I found return flights to Barcelona for 25 quid, I'd only visited the city when I was a child so I wanted to explore the art scene and explore the city as a creative. The street art was very vast, with practically every single shutter door plastered in graffiti, also a variety of murals from artists all over the globe. During the last day of our trip, we spent the rainy day at the contemporary art museum, the museum front is a skate scene hot spot. It was interesting to see the similarities between art culture in  Bristol and Barcelona. 

One of the oldest buildings in Barcelona, in the Eixample district, is something that disgruntled natives have wanted to tear down for a while. But the street artists just saw it is a great opportunity to paint the town – and so it is now covered in a grand mural of a hot air balloon with varying additions graffitied on to enhance it.
I found these on a free app called  Murs Leieurs where they show locations of street art hotspots across the city. 

During the last day of our trip, we spent the rainy day at the contemporary art museum, the museum front is a skate scene hot spot. It was interesting to see the similarities between art culture in  Bristol and Barcelona.
MacBa Barcelona was the most exciting museum I've ever visited, a lot of the exhibits were interactive!
The highlight being  Christian Maclay: Compositions a collaborative exhibition taking over the whole top floor What stuck out to me in this exhibition was how diverse and immersive it was. There was a range of work ranging from sculpture, projection, sound, collage, text, paint and photography.  There was even a whole room where the walls were blackboard and visitors were invited to graffiti it!





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