Kenor’s metal sculpture “Mind / machine” will be exhibited at the 25th edition of Drap-Art
Drap-Art, the international festival of sustainable art, is an international project born in 1995, in Barcelona, as a platform for artists who recover the concept of the objet trouvé and reflect on their environment and its concerns.
The International Festival of Sustainable Art of Catalonia celebrates its 25th edition with a very special program, including pioneers of sustainable contemporary art and leading figures of original urban art, as well as a large selection of emerging artists and projects, within the concept “Nothing disappears, all is in transformation”
Drap-Art aims to raise awareness and educate audiences, to promote sustainability through art as well as artists and their creations within this field of contemporary and urban art, architecture, design and crafts.
In times of global crisis like the one happening today it is more important than ever to realize that culture and art are an intrinsic part of ourselves. In times of uncertainty they are tools used for reflection, for the creative analysis of our situation and to find new ways.
From these premises, Drap-Art commissioned to Kenor a new multicolor sculpture: “Mind / Machine” came to life from old iron found in Poblenou abandoned factories to guess the artistic potential of used materials. The conceptual reflection of the times on contemporary human development and the reuse of the waste of modern life as a sustainable resource, consciously or unconsciously. The project has been realized together with Fousion Gallery.
Drap-Art’21 will be held from November 18 to December 21, 2021 in various exhibition spaces in emblematic buildings, creating a cultural circuit in the Gothic Quarter, turning it into a meeting point between artists, art lovers and new audiences, and collaborating in the sustainable and intercultural urban transformation of the center of Barcelona.
The 25th anniversary of the Drap-Art Festival will be celebrated with exceptional exhibitions curated by critics, theorists and curators specialized in the fields of urban and contemporary art, inviting pioneers of environmental art such as Michelangelo Pistoletto with his Third Paradise project, promoted by the Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation and HA Schult with a historical work of art Biokinetic Landscape (1973), an installation in the public space and outstanding contemporary artists from Catalonia like Bigas Luna, Rafael Bartolozzi and Francesco Volsi.