Author: german

The event, now in its 28th edition, proposes an exhibition route and a cultural circuit through different galleries, emblematic buildings, streets and squares of the Gothic Quarter. Interventions, exhibitions and activities that can be enjoyed completely free of charge and that vindicate sustainability through art, recovering forgotten or disused objects to give them a second life.

Under the heading Drap-Art Indoors, this year the Festival’s program includes indoor spaces, such as Base Elements Urban Art Gallery, Espai del Borsí, Test Gallery, Sala Perill, la Bien Cuadrado and the Drap-Art Gallery itself, which together exhibit more than a hundred works. Projects by a total of 60 artists, including guests, selected by public call and a selection of artists from the Balearic Islands, which will show the richness and diversity of the current trends in urban, contemporary and sustainable art, both in our country and in Europe and the rest of the world.

Among the works that make up the rich and creative artistic program of the Festival Drap-Art’24, the public will be able to reflect on striking performative interventions such as “Masa de elecciones”. A work by the Colombian Andrea Verbel Vanegas, a visual artist professionally focused on costume direction, and who, under her pseudonym Garbage Guerrillera, in 2018, intervened in the public space of the German city of Augsburg with the parade of a dress weighing 20 kg that she embroidered for two months, using plastic, cardboard and electronic waste. Or contemplate poetic proposals such as the project of the London artist Errol Sari, based in Barcelona, who from his studio Mono 30, in the Poble-Sec neighbourhood, reuses cans found on the beach of Barcelona and plastic caps brought to him by neighbors to make his pieces.

Drap-Art Outdoors, meanwhile, brings together the open-air actions of the Festival concerning sustainability in all its spheres -artistic, social and environmental-, in different enclaves of the public space of the Gothic Quarter. One of the highlights of the many activities will be the inaugural concerts in Plaza del Rey, on Saturday 23 November, and the Artistic Recycling and Sustainable Consumption Market that will take place every Saturday during the Festival period in Plaza Real.

This program, together with the exhibition route, makes Drap-Art’24 an immersive and participatory sustainable art circuit, which for a month will turn the center of Barcelona into a meeting point for artists, art lovers, new audiences, neighbors and local entities, as well as contributing to the sustainable and intercultural urban transformation of the city. In this 28th edition, the Drap-Art association, organizer of the event, wants to pay special attention to the current global socio-political context where war conflicts are taking center stage.

“We are approaching our 30th anniversary and want to reflect on the evolution of activism in the field of art and sustainability in these almost three decades of history. There is no sustainability without peace. We need a return to humanist values to achieve true sustainability in all aspects,” assures Tanja Grass, director of the Festival and of the association, since its inception.

For this reason, on Saturday, December 21, coinciding with the celebration of the Rebirth Day, the Third Paradise project of the pioneer of environmental art and main representative of Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto and his organization Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Drap-Art, has organized within the framework of the Festival, a playful-festive massive “Demonstration-Procession-Parade for Universal Peace and Human Empowerment”. The rally will include the participation of renowned international artists such as Eddy Ekete, Little Shilpa, and national artists such as Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca, and will end with the collective creation of a giant heart made by the children of the schools of Ciutat Vella. This program, together with the exhibition route, will make Drap-Art’24 an immersive sustainable art circuit open to the general public.

Steven Forster, artist of the month of October, awaits you at our next inauguration!

He is a multifaceted and multidisciplinary artist: sculptor, painter, music, composer, performer and unconventional interior designer, responsible for all the interior design of the Saltó Winery (www.bodegasalto.net), among others, and one of the founding members of Drap-Art. The art of recycling has been a constant in his work ever since, both in plastics and in music, performance or interior design projects.

He arrived in Barcelona in 1988 and stayed. He has been active in the alternative artistic scene, standing out in polypoetry, plastic arts, installations and experimental music since the 1980s. He currently lives and works in Hostalric, La Selva, with projects such as ‘Van Imagination, ‘Hostalric D ‘ART, ‘The Nose, .Ni Deu Ni Doors.

THE MONIGOTHIC

Forster, the Monigotics are part of a pseudoscience of humanity. They are recurring figures in his plastic work, symbols of the human being in its purest state. They reduce human traits to a minimum, becoming fetishes of human essence, without sex or other attributes to distract the viewer from the most fundamental of humanity.

www.stevenforster.blogspot.com

Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time: 19.30h
Place: Carrer d’en Groc, 1

Po ta to mon (2024) 60 x 110 cm. Mixed technique (painting on potato bags)

“War, like dinosaurs, must disappear”

Orson Wells puts this phrase in the mouth of the protagonist of the 1935 film Things to Come. This film addresses the need for civilised societies to guarantee peace and to find a balance between technology and nature.

At the present time of the proliferation of war conflicts and even in the face of the threat of a world war, Drap-Art echoes this statement: our planet can only be sustainable if instead of conflict, peace and love are promoted, and if technology and science are put at the service of human beings and nature, for their development and regeneration.

“We are approaching our 30th anniversary and we want to reflect on the evolution of activism in the field of art and sustainability in these almost three decades of festival history. There is no sustainability without peace. We need a return to humanist values to achieve true sustainability in all aspects”, says Tanja Grass, director of the festival and the Drap-Art association since its inception.

This new edition of Drap-Art Al Gòtic! International Festival of Sustainable Art of Catalonia will be held from November 21 to December 21, 2024. The exhibition of artists selected for the public call will be held at Mucha Fibra Escola Taller, in Carrer d’en Copons 3. The call is now open, and artists are invited to present their projects until July 26. The jury will be formed by Joan Abelló, Betty Bigas, Josep Anton Carulla, Margarita Farran and Tanja Grass.

For a month, the Festival programmed in the central Gothic Quarter of Barcelona an exhibition route with 60 artists (invited and selected by public call, as well as a selection of artists from the Balearic Islands) with more than 100 works of art, in galleries and unique buildings of the city (Test Gallery, Base Elements Urban Art Gallery, the space of the Borsí platform, etc.) with the aim of reclaiming art through its use

Accompaniing the exhibitions, Drap-Art organizes numerous activities in the public space around sustainability in all its fields: artistic, social and environmental. One of the highlights will be the opening concerts of the Plaza del Rey, on Saturday 23 November and the Market for Artistic Recycling and Sustainable Consumption every Saturday in the Plaza Real. The objective is to create a complete and immersive sustainable route, in which the public can enjoy the exhibitions and be part of the festival in a participatory way.

Drap-Art has been collaborating for three years with the project of the Third Paradise of the pioneer of environmental art and main representative of Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto and his organization Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, which celebrates Rebirth Day worldwide, on December 21, with the winter solstice. This year, Drap-Art wants to commemorate it with a massive “Manifestació-Processó-Desfilada lúdic-festiva per la Pau Universal i l’APODERament Humà”, with the participation of renowned international artists such as Eddy Ekete (https://eddyeketeblog.wordpress.com), Little Shilpa (http://www.littleshilpa.com), and nationals, such as Marcellí Antúnez Roca (https://www.marceliantunez.com), which will end up in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona with the collective creation of a giant choir made by the children of the schools of Ciutat Vella, under the supervision of action artist HA Schult (https://www.haschult.de), another great environmental art.

Drap-Art’24 In Gothic!
28th Festival of Sustainable Art of Catalonia
From 21 November to 21 December 2024

Route of exhibitions and cultural actions in public space, art galleries and unique buildings in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona.
The Festival focuses this year on promoting the sense of total sustainability: technology at the service of people and nature, empowerment of human beings in the face of conflict, peace and love.
All Drap-Art’24 exhibitions and activities are free