Sleeping Figures - Barcelona, Spain
Posted by: denben
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These two sculptures are located at the Fran Daurel Sculpture Garden on the grounds of the Poble Espanyol, an architectural museum in Barcelona, just a few meters away from the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc.
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Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 03/04/2016
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The Sculpture Garden is the latest addition to the Fundació Fran Daurel. It is reached through the Montblanc gate. 5,000 m2 of land has been reclaimed so that visitors can enjoy this permanent open-air sculpture collection. New works have been added to the garden which now comprises a green area featuring 41 large format sculptures by 27 contemporary artists, forming a landscape in which the figurative and abstract coexist, forming a wide range of shapes and colours which show us contemporary art from a different slant.
The sculptures by Xavier Garces depict a female and a male life-size figures lying on grass not too far from each other. They were made from terracotta in 2003. The woman is 1.6 meters tall and the man 1.8 meters.
Opening hours:
Monday from 9am to 8pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 9am to midnight; Friday from 9am to 3am; Saturday from 9am to 4am
The coordinates are from the Montblanc gate entrance to the Sculpture Garden.
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