{"id":4976,"date":"2022-01-17T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altinnov.blog\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2022-01-17T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:25:28","slug":"street-art-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altinnov.blog\/index.php\/en\/2022\/01\/17\/street-art-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Street art in Barcelona swept away by the property boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Street art in Barcelona is suffering from the arrival of high-tech companies in the Poblenou<\/strong> district. The wastelands of the old factories are disappearing under the shovels at high speed to make way for a sort of Silicon Valley with high steel buildings and improbable lofts. Poblenou was for decades the heart of Barcelona’s free urban art. In the 1960s, anti-Franco protests covered the walls of these brick factories. Later, graffiti artists put their blazes on the walls and soon they were joined by international artists. Today, artists are still resisting in the old factory of La Escocesa and clean urban art galleries are coming to the area. As you might guess, there are still some great things to discover in Poblenou, but I doubt it will last very long!<\/p>\n

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La Escocesa, the nerve centre of street art in Barcelona<\/h3>\n

This former textile production factory has been transformed since 2008 into a huge space for artistic creation. Painters, sculptors,… work and live there and take advantage of the equipment and material made available to them by the Associaci\u00f3 d’Idees Ema<\/strong>. On paper, this may seem idyllic, but when you enter La Escoceca you find yourself in the heart of a completely dilapidated industrial building and you have more of a feeling of entering a crumbling, abandoned place than a space for artistic creation.<\/p>