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Festa Major del Gotic

The Gothic Quarter is celebrating: Enjoy the Neighborhood Fiesta and our Artist of the Month!

The Fiesta of the Gothic Quarter!

 

The Festa Major of the Gothic Quarter runs from May 3 to 12, and Drap-Art participates with a creative recycling workshop on the 4th and a fashion parade on the 11th, from 12 to 2 pm at Plaça Reial and a new Exhibition of Upcycling artists, designers and artisans from Ciutat Vella at Plaça de la Mercè, who will be working live, in front of the public, accompanied by DJs, on Sunday 5 and 12. See the complete program here.

Complexity or the quest for being

On May 8, we also present the Artist of the Month: Norberto Fuentes (Caspe, 1958). An extraordinary self-taught painter and sculptor, with a long record of national and international exhibitions, arrives from Zaragoza to make us enjoy his sculptural interpretation of prime numbers.

“Bricks of arithmetics, threads of number theory, atoms of mathematics… I looked at the numbers 5, 7, 97, and I didn’t see this.
I thought about representation. Yes, the problem I had is that the way of representing them, that we use, closes off my way.
The Ishango bone, the Sumerian cones and a number of beautiful ways to represent numbers.
Eureka! There are other ways of showing the number. I Discovered the Mediterranean! Back to the beginning.
They all have a common place, unity. A being, a oneness and there is the interpretation code of my way of representing.
Being and the number. Their relationships and Complexity.
For me it is evident that prime numbers are impeccable models for establishing the basis of the complex reality that surrounds us.
They are colossal, exciting and very, very artistic.
I would love you to enjoy making them as much as I do, even if it’s just a little bit.”

About the exposition: 

Date: open to public from May 8th to June 1st. 

Opening: May 8th, 19h. 

Location: Carrer d’en Groc nº 1. Look how to arrive here!