It is a plate shaped like stone. It has a funereal tone, colorful graffiti artist and let activist. “In memory of the residents of Gràcia”you will remember this street lapidary in front of the market Grocery. “Bad management – attempts to maintain collective memory– caused one to be destroyed cataloged modernist gem”.
The graffiti plaque refers to the mythical iron structure of the old market, which the City Council demolished just two months ago before the neighborhood outrage. “A cataloged iron structure, from 1892 – notes the author of the plaque, the urban artist Joan Juncosa– and one of the few preserved works of the architect Joan Torras Guardiolaconsidered the Catalan Eiffel”. The Abaceria Respira Platform had collected more than 8,600 signatures to demand that the mythical cover be preserved and the market reform be taken advantage of to create a green area that would exercise “lung of the neighborhood”.
It will be the street tribute to a long neighborhood battle. “Have been 8 years of struggle –the neighbors point out-. we have felt deceived and belittled because the District verbally states that there has been a participatory process, but this has not been the case. They will not sit back, they announce. “The fight of Abaceria Respira It does not stop because we understand that it is a necessary fight in these times of climate emergency“.
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“They have defended a heritage which belongs to everyone –justifies Juncosa-. When future generations look back, let them see that another way of doing things was possible.” Joan Juncosa It’s #elchicodelasbaldosas on Instagram. She’s been hanging in the streets for three yearspanots‘in graffiti version. Last year he filled Barcelona with colorful activist urinals. Collejas in artistic version next to corrosive traces of piss. “It has become normal for the city to smell bad,” she then put her finger on the sore spot.
The plate will be revealed on February 3rd (12 pm) at a neighborhood event, with speeches and Pica pica, at the municipal inauguration. The activist piece will hang in Travessera de Gràcia, 189with a view to the controversial works.