Mallorca Magazine
Abraham Calero is one of the most political street artists in Palma. Just now he did a series of shipwrecked bodies along the boardwalk of El Molinar. Art, and street art in particular, often plays with the interaction between the art work and its surroundings. Abraham Calero called his seven paste-ups “Indiferencia”. A most disturbing encounter indeed, contrasting daily beach life with the deaths of refugees in the…
“Tengo un cine” reads the slogan on the t-shirt that I have been wearing proudly for almost eight years, now. And indeed I owned an – admittedly small – share in CineCiutat. The phoenix who rose from the ashes of Renoir. When the movie theater at S‘Escorxador closed a group of citizens in Palma took the initiative and with the support of many other cineastes rescued the unique institution. Successfully CineCiutat, as it was called, continued to show great international films in original…
It’s these days between Christmas and Los Reyes when everything seems to slow down. We seize the days to spend time with our loved ones. And together we watch a movie or visit an exhibition that we have missed so far. If you haven’t seen…
Mallorca has always been an inspiring place for artists. Particularly painters love the extraordinary light of the Mediterranean. And the creative atmosphere of an island where people from many different places come together. With its numerous…
Some of the narrow parallel lines that are winding across the canvasses remind me of topographic maps. Others resemble rice fields or the lines that waves draw on the sandy bottom of the sea. The artwork by Guillem Nadal is mostly abstract. But…
It’s that wonderful tale of 1001 Nights where Ali Baba’s greedy brother Kasim knows the entrance but forgot the key. In hotels today it often happens the other way round. We have the key but don’t remember the door to it. Something that Toni…
Tonight’s the night. Actually, it is the first out of three. Palma’s art night 2019, the Nit de l’Art ’19, has started with a couple of exciting openings. Xavier Fiol’s gallery is sparsely decorated with a series of outlined heads by Fernando…
With smart phones and social media nowadays everybody is used to the editing of pictures. In the analog world though the most efficient way to put a picture in scene is to frame it. To Carles Mulet and Rubén Ares a frame is like a dress that…