The Cement Mixer of PobleNew: ballad for a stomach” is the icon of a neighbourhood in the midst of change. It represents displacement; the exodus and the arrival; the going and the coming, the metamorphosis of a new urban space. Through such a characteristic element of construction  - which in this neighbourhood has become a recognised frequenter of daily life - we are invited to reflect, symbolising the stomach of Poblenou in constant digestion; devouring, de-constructing and constructing, metabolising the neighbourhood: the past, the present, and the  bustle of local residents’ lives.

On the first night, 4 February, a poetic street parade of light and colour headed by the cement mixer will parade around the streets of Poblenou, accompanied by en entourage of three Harley Davidsons and the seven cement mixers. On Saturday  5 and Sunday 6, the light installation and sound exhibition will be shown in a static display on the site on Carrer de Pere IV, on the corner of Carrer de Ciutat de Granada, with an exhibition located in a construction shed.

Miralda - FoodCultura (stomakdigital.org)

With the collaboration of Fundació Sorigué

Antoni Miralda

Antoni Miralda (Barcelona, 1942) is a multidisciplinary artist, who since the 1960s has been developing his work around the object, the ceremonial,  interventions in public spaces, monuments, food and the concept of food culture. Although his way of understanding and relating to art defies categorisation of any kind, his work is characterised by being rooted in the social context and by his own research into the omnipresent role of food, provoking much debate and cultural exchange.