Walk through Palma’s old town and you might miss it. A narrow gap between weathered stone facades leads toward Carrer de l’Almudaina. But slow down. Look through the wide portal of Ca n’Oleo, and something stops you in your tracks. Beyond the shadowy entrance, the courtyard opens into a flood of light. Right in the center sits a sculpture glowing in an electric shade of grass green: Posidònia by Juan Carlos Nadal. Visitors who weren’t even looking for art find themselves drawn in anyway. They…
Katharina Grosse: Arrels at La Llotja
You step through the heavy wooden doors and stop. The light inside La Llotja falls differently today. The six spiralling columns still twist upward toward the vaulted ceiling, just as they have for nearly six centuries. But something has changed entirely. Color floods the room. It moves across stone, spreads onto the entire floor, pools in shadows, and erupts where you least expect it. Katharina Grosse’s exhibition “Arrels” (Catalan for roots) doesn’t hang on the walls of La Llotja. It…







