Magic Fountains , Barcelona
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| Check Site for Details | |
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| Palau Nacional, Weekends from 8pm | |
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Description
When work on the Great Universal Exhibition of 1929 was well under way, the organizers felt that it needed that “something” special to make it a cut above the rest. That was when Carles Buigas submitted his project for a “colossal, daring and costly piece of work”
On June 18, 1928, before the Executive Committee of the Exhibition, the young engineer presented the 460 plans and 70 large drawings, materializing the dreams that his expertise
was capable of bringing to life. The project was so surprising and dazzling that it was even branded as madness by some of those present.
Buigas's project heralded the discovery of a new art, the art of light. Light would no longer be used only to illuminate the night, but rather to embellish it too. Above all, he discovered that the light should be concentrated so as to avoid larger beams obscuring smaller ones.
Buigas conceived an opaque and independent light, one that could be part of the whole without detracting from the immediate effect.
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Miro Museum,
Parc de Montjuïc, 08038 Barcelona
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