Video: Serve Spain. Series of beggar sculptures Hands in Barcelona
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Spain in the past few years has been experiencing a severe economic crisis, which could lead to the collapse of this country. At least the Autonomous Community of Catalonia has already announced its desire to become an independent state. Therefore, it is not surprising that it was on the streets of Barcelona that the series appeared beggar sculptures with a common name Hands.
Catalonia, with its center in Barcelona, has always opposed itself to the rest of Spain, claiming its separate cultural and political identity. In recent years, this region has generally been rapidly moving towards independence, expecting to achieve it in the foreseeable future. The economic crisis in the country only accelerated this process - after all, the developed autonomous community is forced to give huge amounts of money to the leaky central budget, which they themselves do not have enough.
So it is not at all surprising that it was in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, that sculptures from the Hands series appeared, clearly showing the poverty-stricken state of Spain and the inhabitants of this country.
This series of works was created jointly by the artists Octavi Serra, Mateu Targa, Daniel Llugany and Pau Garcia. Hands is a dozen of various sculptures placed throughout Barcelona in the most unexpected places.
These sculptures very clearly and clearly depict the consequences of the financial crisis in Spain. Some of them are asking for alms, some are digging in a street phone in search of coins forgotten by people, some are trying to rob a person who has approached an ATM, and some are even holding a noose, not finding a place for themselves in society, left without a source of livelihood.
Of course, the authors of these sculptures do not gloat over the dire economic situation in Spain. They only look at the situation with irony, comprehending it artistically, just like the Italian builders during their unusual recent manifestation in Milan.
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