Marie Curie, after many years and many tons of uranite, succeeded in isolating two elements new to mankind, polonium and radium. In every gram of uranite there are molecules of these two new elements; invisible, but they are there.
The same happens in art: there are many works of art and, in a corner of each of them, an element new to humanity. And the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) hides a few of them within its walls. That is why in some of the coming Pic of the Week we will be discovering some of the works of art that coexist with science and our daily life at the Park.
The Barcelona artist Antoni Llena (1942) is the author of the giant face in the square near the PRBB (yes, the one you cross every day to get the metro). It’s called David and Goliath, if you look below you’ll know who is who.
Llena is also the creator of that painting that everyone looks at and no one understands, which is at the back of the LabCafè and is entitled ‘Writing in a language that is dying (painting)’. Llena paints the ephemeral, the volatile, but that which nevertheless hangs on a wall to alert us to the fact that time is counted in seconds, that everything passes by…
Make the most of it!
Text by Isabel Ràfols.
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