Art on the beach in Barceloneta

Have you ever walked on the beach and passed Rebecca Horn’s monument or Frank Gehry’s sculpture? No? Never? Are you sure?

And what if I’m saying that you do just you don’t know about them.May I show You them?

See, as I said,you have passed them at least hundred times without noticing them.

But who are the artists?

Let’s start with Rebecca Horn, since the beginning of the 1970s she has been making performances, films, sculptures, spatial installations, drawings and photographs. “The essence of their imagery comes out of the tremendous precision of the physical and technical functionality she uses to stage her works each time within a particular space.” If I had to give her a “calling-word” it would be one of her first performances, The Feathered Prison Fan ( 1978).

Frank Owen Gehry is one of the most important and famous contemporary architects. The Guggeinheim Museum in Bilbao or the Dancing House in Prague, does it ring a bell?
His style is called Deconstructivism or also post- structuralism (when the form of the building does not follow the function). In some works of him he is associated with the “Los Angeles School” and the “Santa Monica School”.
He is inspired by fish….. NO, really, I’m not joking! He explains why: "Three hundred million years before man was fish....if you gotta go back, and you're insecure about going forward...go back three hundred million years ago. Why are you stopping at the Greeks? So I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it."

So next time, when you are just about to pass them by, please storp for a moment and admire them!