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Plaza de La Merced – Saturday, December 21st from 5pm – Free

DRAP-ART PARADE

Drap-Art presents

“A PARADE, MANIFESTATION, PROCESSION OF TRANSFORMATION”

Date: December 21st, 2024
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Plaza de la Merced, Barcelona

This unique event combines sustainable fashion, recycling and movement in the heart of Barcelona, ​​promoting world peace and human empowerment.
In this parade, “slow fashion” and recycling intersect with the constant research of the artistic movement, embodying the spirit of the Aquarian age.

Art direction, styling and production: Marie Christiane Porcher from YOSOYO

An integrative and intersectional event that brings together fashion, art and dance to celebrate sustainable creativity and cultural diversity.

With the participation of the projects:

• murmúr_sus
• Lanau & Palola
• Helena Torres Design
• Vía 3 Collective
• Mina Miyuta
• InfinitDenim
• Yosoyo
• Eddy Ekete

We are waiting for you!

REFLAGS by STUDIO VOLLAERSZWART

Reflags is an ode to the great cultural diversity of different nationalities that coexist in the main cities of the world.

RÚA-ACCIÓ // MANIFESTACIÓ
with the direction of Marcel·lí Antúnez

Manifestació, Rua-Acció per la Pau i Empowerment Humà i de la Naturalesa

Dissabte, December 21

7:00 p.m.: Rua-Acció / Manifestació per la Pau, l’Apoderament Humane i de la Naturalesa, directed by Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca, co-founder of La Fura dels Baus. With the participation of Studio VollaersZwart, Eddy Ekete and the live music of Marceluya y sus Mireyos.

A unique event to reclaim peace and empowerment through art and culture.

DJ & CONCERTS

DJ Neet
Born in Barcelona in 1974, he started the sets in 1999 at a place named Gusto al barri de Gràcia. Next, he will reside at Club Fellini (2006-2010) and IslaDencanta (2005-2012). I also attended passarel.les and fashion festivals at the CCCB. Collaborator of LaMono magazine with sets and performances in art galleries. Currently, he is the DJ of the Ravalades and other events.

Concert by The NOse
Steven Forster is a versatile artist dedicated to visual arts, performance and music. An electric and unforgettable show. T’ho passaràs tita.

De Rebote Concert
More than a musical group, De Rebote is a vibrant group that is fueled by the flavor, essence and energy of music, fusing the origin and personality of each member.

Drap Art Festival is organizing a demonstration for world peace and human and nature empowerment as the closing of its 28th edition We need you, participate!

We are looking for volunteers who want to participate carrying banners, wearing outfits created by the artists Marcel-lí Antúnez Roca (co-founder of La Fura Dels Baus) for his Rua-Acció and the multicultural designer from Rotterdam Madje Vollaers who brings to Barcelona for the first time her project Reflags.

Show your commitment to peace and human empowerment, the more the merrier!

Want to know more? Write to us at info@drap-art.org

The 28th edition of the Drap-Art festival continues to shine thanks to your energy and support! This week we enjoyed an intense and varied program, with activities for all tastes: a market full of unique creations, inspiring guided tours and the magical inauguration of the Progetto Luminis.

The festival does not stop here! It continues with surprising proposals committed to sustainability. Stay tuned to the program and don’t miss out on everything that Drap-Art still has to offer. We look forward to seeing you there!

This week we highlight…

The Drap-Art Market

Every Saturday, from 11:00 to 22:00, Plaça Reial
Saturdays are the Drap-Art Market. Discover unique products and sustainable crafts while enjoying the entertainment of Basuringo from Twisted Fairground.

In addition, this Saturday you can participate in special activities such as Street Yoga at 11:00 am (bring your own mat!).

In the evening, don’t miss the closing of Carlo Lusi’s “Semeion” exhibition at the Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am, with an artist talk included.

Drap-Art Spaces

We have four spaces:

Espai de la Plataforma el Borsí, on Ciutat Street, 3.
Drap-Art Gallery, on En Groc Street, 1.
Sala Perill, on Avinyó Street, 46, Pral 2a.
Drap-Art Pop-Up Gallery, on Milans Street, 3.

Take the opportunity to visit Carbassa and En Groc Streets and discover the interventions in urban spaces.

Christmas Gifts

This Christmas, give Drap-Art as a gift! Both at the Drap-Art Spaces and at the Market, you will find a selection of unique and charitable gifts. Discover the creations of Ocean Sole, animals made with recycled materials that support the environmental cause. Give the gift of art with a purpose and contribute to a more sustainable Christmas!

Guided tours
Every Saturday, from 12:00 to 14:00

We invite you to enjoy our guided tours. Discover the proposals of Drap-Art up close and delve into the art of recycling with a journey full of creativity.

Confirm your attendance at info@drap-art.org

Peeled Piano, a documentary by Eli Grass and Mar Morey

On December 16th at 7:00 PM, don’t miss Peeled Piano, a documentary by Eli Grass and Mar Morey that will be screened at the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona (Carrer dels Arcs 5, Ciutat Vella). With free admission, this film takes us to discover the multiple lives of a discarded piano, through a sound journey created by Eli Gras.

The 28th edition of the Drap-Art festival is being a resounding success. This first week has been marked by inaugurations, activities and concerts that have counted on your presence and support.

The festival continues with a program full of innovative proposals and committed to sustainability. Don’t miss the next events and stay tuned to the program to discover everything that Drap-Art has prepared for you.

This week we highlight…

Guided tours

Every Saturday, from 12:00 to 14:00

We invite you to enjoy our guided tours. Discover the proposals of Drap-Art up close and enter the art of recycling with a journey full of creativity.
Confirm your attendance at info@drap-art.org

All galleries open

You can visit the following exhibitions:

• Espai Drap-Art, Carrer d’en Groc
• Drap-Art Pop Up Gallery, Carrer Milans 3
• Espai de la Plataforma El Borsi, Carrer Ciutat 3
• Sala Perill, Carrer Avinyó 45
• Begemot Gallery (Placeta de Manuel Ribé, 4,)
• Base Elements Galleries (Carrer Palau, 4) (Carrer Avinyó, 31)
• Villa del Arte Galleries (Carrer Tapineria, 39)
• Paam Project (Baixada de Viladecols, 2 bis)
• Bien Cuadrado Art Gallery (Carrer Ataülf, 14)
• Port Gallery (Carrer Josep Anselm Clavé, 13)

Visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00, on Sundays only in the morning of 12:00 to 14:00, and closed on Mondays.

Christmas Gifts at Drap-Art

This Christmas, give a meaningful gift at Drap-Art Pop Up Gallery and Espai Drap-Art. You will find a selection of unique and charitable gifts, such as Ocean Sole animals, artistic creations made with recycled materials that support an environmental cause.

The Drap-Art Market

Every Saturday, from 11:00 to 22:00, Plaça Reial

The Drap-Art Market offers you unique products, sustainable crafts and exceptional artistic creations. In addition, you can enjoy the Basuringo entertainment, presented by Twisted Fairground, which will make your visit even more special.

Collaboration with Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation Progetto Luminis

Progetto Luminis can be seen from December 3 to 7 at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture and from December 4 to 21 as part of Drap-Art on Carrer Carabassa, as an installation in the urban space.
In addition, on December 4, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., a round table on Global Peace and Human Empowerment will take place with the participation of Josep Félix Bentz (President of the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona), Saverio Teruzzi (Coordinator of the Third Paradise Embassies), Kefa Oiro and Augustine Namatsi Okubo (Alkebulan The Great Migration Exhibition), David Sande Oyolo Alukhome and Clement Rapudo Sijenyi (official representatives of the Nairobi region).

Confirm attendance at info@drap-art.org.

We share with you some snapshots of the Inauguration of the Drap Art ’24 Festival, with the performances of Maria Salouvardou “Dead Land” and the company Twisted Fairground “Basuringo”.

We made a route through the Espai del Borsí in Ciutat street, the Base Elements gallery to see the work of Bordalo II, the Sala Perill and the Drap Art Pop Up Gallery in Milans street.

Photos by Consuelo Bautista

The Drap-Art Festival is back in Barcelona! For a month, the Gothic Quarter will become the epicenter of art and sustainability with exhibitions, free activities and cultural actions in public spaces, galleries and emblematic buildings.

In this 28th edition, the festival brings together 60 artists with more than 100 works made from recovered objects, transmitting emotions and messages that invite reflection.

This year, Drap-Art addresses current social, ideological and political challenges from the perspective of artistic activism, claiming a return to humanist values as key to achieving global sustainability. Don’t miss it!

Drap Art’24 Festival Program

This week we highlight…

Performance – Maria Salouvardou

Thursday, November 21, Carrer Ciutat, 3 – 19:00 h, Dead Land

Maria transforms recycled objects into unique pieces, combining music, text and video. Her performance explores art as a means to give new life to the forgotten, with a creative and sustainable approach.

Route of exhibitions with Basuringo

Thursday, November 21, Carrer Ciutat, 3 20:00 h

A performance presented by Twisted Fairground. Mix artistic installation, robotic puppets and theater to explore the world of the “disposable” and its connection with humanity. A unique and transformative experience.

Exhibition Route: Every Saturday, from 12 am to 2 pm

Join us on a tour of the Drap-Art Festival spaces, discover 9 guided exhibition routes distributed throughout the Gothic Quarter.

Opening concerts

DJ MISKOVIC

Saturday 23 November, from 6 pm to 7 pm, in the Plaça del Rei

Miskovic, born in Barcelona and with Argentine roots, is a passionate photographer and DJ who combines rhythms such as Afro house, melodic techno and indie dance. After years capturing the best DJs in the world in festivals such as Brunch Barcelona, Off Sonar and Hivernacle, now shines behind the dishes, bringing his love for music to another level.

LA MAGA (LIVE SHOW)

Saturday 23 November, from 7 pm to 8.15 pm, in the Plaça del Rei

La Maga is an Argentine rapper who merges rap with Latin American rhythms and electronic sounds, creating a unique experience where past and future meet. With percussionist Gala Celia, Matías Herrera and producer Vitu Valera.

ADELAIDA (LIVE SHOW)

Saturday 23 November, from 20:25 h to 21:45 h, in the Plaça del Rei

The Catalan singer-songwriter and producer Adelaida explores the voice as a ritual expression, combining a choral and dark electronic environment. His second album, Muérdago, premiered at Sónar 2024, is a sound journey full of emotion that consolidates his presence on the music scene.

VEACKS (DJ)

Saturday 23 November, from 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m., in the Plaça del Rei

Veacks, a Swiss-French DJ based in Barcelona, fuses Latin and Afro rhythms to create vibrant and dynamic sets. With an authentic selection of Afrobeat, salsa and cumbia, it creates irresistible atmospheres that celebrate dance and global dust.

Drap Art Festival

A unique experience full of exhibitions, artistic installations, free activities and much more. Meet the artists, discover the power of creative recycling and enjoy a month of culture in the heart of the Gothic Quarter.

For more information on schedules, routes and activities, visit our website. We are waiting for you!

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