By Philippe Viguié Desplaces (text) and Éric Martin for Le Figaro Magazine (photos)
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Rebellious and powerful Barcelona, stranded on the shores of modernity, has not finished dazzling us.
This unclassifiable city, permanent center of protest, cosmopolitan epicenter of a nightlife without morning, seems never to know rest.
Young contemporary creation has made it its capital in Spain.
A myriad of artists are digging a furrow there.
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There is a real breeding ground here with names like Jaume Plensa, the most famous, but also Lluis Cera, Montse Valdés…
“, enumerates Bert van Zetten, who has just opened on Passeig de Gràcia, yet another art gallery.
The Macba (Museum of Contemporary Art), in the heart of El Raval district, refers to this dynamic of creativity which seems to have always existed.
Because already in 1900, the Barcelona in sepia of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, a teenager with baggy pants and very broad ideas, seemed designed to give birth to talent.
That of Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner, Puig…
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