The Barcelona Tattoo Expo 2013: the great tattoo festival
It’s time to show the tattoos or to think about the possibility of decorating you skin with new shapes and drawings. The 16th edition of the Barcelona Tattoo Expo 2013 takes place in the city of Barcelona and promises to be the best meeting that this sector can offer to professionals and amateurs. If you...
Keep Real Birds in Barcelona: Birds also dance
Keep Real is a platform devoted to the promotion of musicians. It was created in Lausanne (Switzerland) over six years ago and in their webpage young talents can offer their songs to the readers with free downloads (via Creative Commons). Keep Real is in charge of it, as well as offering the musicians graphic images...
Free Walls, the commitment of creative graffiti in Barcelona
Barcelona will be flooded with creativity thanks to Free Walls, a proposal that struggles to maintain certain areas of the city dedicated to graffiti. As the name suggests, the innovating idea consists of granting public spaces, walls, to urban artists so they can carry out their works legally, with complete freedom and without fear of...
Kirsten Campbell
In an event titled Mend the artist Kirsten Campbell showcased her recent work, on Wednesday the 3rd of April in Tatiana Kourochkina Art Gallery, Barcelona. Her sculptures stood charged and poised, and further enlivened in supporting stills, where each work becomes the mantle of the motion that drove it, enacted by Campbell. The Minimalist Richard...
Yes, a wall, but which one?
Art galleries have always seemed temporary lodgings to me, rest areas, rest areas for works and authors. Artists, itinerant and restless by nature, breathe and calm down in so white, so sanitized and halogenous galleries. There, they are exposed, strategically placed under spotlights. It is like going into a freshly made bed of a new...
The Greaser Art in London
This month the Barbarican Centre in London is organizing a brand new exhibition in Dalston, one of the city’s neighborhoods. The exhibition is called Dalston House and the artist is Argentinian Leandro Erlich. Erlich, using the representation and the intervention of everyday spaces, plays with our perception and comprehension of our surroundings and, in this...
FMX 2013
The most important European Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia (FMX) has begun its 2013 events in the best possible way. The widely shared “Rolling wild” trailer has achieved good results putting together highly captivating elements: excellent use of the technique as well as a popular and sensitive theme. The result is this fantastic...
La Escocesa
In our first issue dedicated to Barcelona, we just had to mention “La Escocesa”, an old industrial complex located in the Poblenou neighbourhood and donated to Associació d’Idees, a diverse group of artists from different disciplines with a long history of working in the factory. A bit of its history In 1852, La Escocesa was...
BCN&CAKE Prepares its best ingredients
After the success of the first year of the creative pastry fair, with over 12,000 visitors in two days, BCN&CAKE is planning its return in style. This second fair will be taking place this year in Barcelona, where you will find decorating workshop, the latest cooking tools, and over 25 courses taught by internationally renowned...
