Plensa in Barcelona

Barcelona negotiates stay with the ‘Carmela’ by Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa sculpure Barcelona

Carmela stays. For now, another month. Jaume Plensa sculpture, which has conquered so many locals, some of whom have collected many signatures to remain in its temporary location in front of the Palau de la Musica-, would go to the United States next day 22. A crane and trucks would be required to begin dismantling for transport. But finally Carmela, although it was created by Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) from a Barcelona girl face measures 4.5 meters high, is going to stay until 29 October in Barcelona. And even then you have to travel far for commitments made in the United States, in Michigan, may return. At least that is the wish of the City of Barcelona, which is negotiating with the artist for Carmela definitive form part of Barcelona’s landscape.

The deputy mayor of Enterprise, Culture and Innovation of Barcelona’s City Hall, Jaume Collboni, which recently entered the city government after the pact of the party he heads, the PSC, with common Ada Colau, convened a press conference yesterday afternoon in front of the sculpture Carmela to explain that they are negotiating with #Plensa. The first step and clear indication of their intentions is that Carmela one month stay while holding talks. And in any case they want to recognize the value of the enormous path Plensa, “which has international recognition and yet is not fairly represented in the city of Barcelona”. And they want to do with him negotiating the acquisition of a representative work to enjoy all Barcelona. Obviously, the number one priority is to be Carmela remain on the streets of the city for good.

Collboni said that Barcelona is indebted to the sculptor, whose works have been installed in major cities around the world, from Venice, Shanghai or Rio de Janeiro Boston and Chicago, but in Barcelona has only a work of previous stages to the now, as the metal trunk and bullets cannon installed on Passeig del Born, dating from 1992. However, the facility last April Carmela at Sant Pere més Alt has made it the public itself that ask a sculpture. Carmela was part of a Plensa exhibition organized by the Palau de la Música, which every year riding a dialogue with an artist. A sample that included three other sculptures in the Palau and has finished putting Carmela in Barcelona’s imagination.

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Barcelona girl saves a kangaroo

Catalan becomes famous in Australia to save a kangaroo

Barcelona girl saves a kangaroo

A Barcelona girl has become famous these days in Australia thanks to their heroism. Laura Sanchez Peregrin, a marine biologist, and some friends managed to save a wallaby from drowning at a beach in New South Wales. Several Australian and British media, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph echoed the “vicissitudes” of this Catalan, which she tells us in the first person as follows:

“On Monday I took the day off. It was too hot and was the laboratory to the bun. I called some friends. Come and dive. The sea was flat, no wind (which rarely happens where I live). ‘Perfect conditions’. The boat is small, 4,5 m., But it takes us everywhere. We plan to go to Red Rock, 20 minutes Arrawarra. This is on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, Sydney seven hours. Five who I live here and can not complain ago. I am a marine biologist and live in paradise.

We put the boat in the water, parked the car and go. We spent the break point, where surfers do their magic tricks. We left the bay. And there, one kilometer from the coast, we see that floating thing. I swear on my head which is a seal. But no. As we approach we realize that it is a kangaroo. A swamp wallaby, corrects my friend Ian, the owner of the boat.

Engines stopped. Take pictures of marsupial. In all my years in the water, both inside and outside, swimming with sharks and surfing with dolphins, this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. What do we do? The animal is exhausted. Nothing to us, pretty desperate (or so it seems). Well have to help him, I say. Or what? We try to help. Ian and Jesse try to grab. It weighs about 30 kg. It is impossible velociraptor claws have not, the following. And it is very defensive. We tried and tried, and no way. We go, there’s nothing we can do, natural selection will take care of it. We headed to our destination.

We’ve had two minutes at full speed. Then Ian stop the engine. We looked: ‘No, we can not go there to help. ” We all agree. We headed back to the animal. Again, it’s nothing to us. We devised the plan. Ian and Jesse have to turn it around in the water, grab the legs, upload it to the boat and tie it well to avoid the bundle. I have to put a towel on her head. It sounds easy. It is not, but luckily out to first. With towel on head, male wallaby relaxing in the middle seat. And it seems to have given him a heart attack, because for a few minutes not moving anything. I uncovered the head. It moves so much. He’s not dead, ‘all good’. We headed to the beach.

We stopped engines, untie and we took the towel from her head. Jesse floor of the boat with the marsupial in arms. It lets go. The animal moves away and stops at the beach. Breathe for a couple of minutes. And so suddenly he starts to bounce onto the grass and leaves, like the wallabies in general. No goodbye or anything.

We are happy. We looked at each other and smiled. We hit all five. ‘Let’s go diving ya’

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