Tag: Mediterranean

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Beyond silence: Las Calmas de Enero

Las Calmes de Enero

The sky an endless blue, no single cloud, and the sea like a mirror. Reflecting the low winter sun that already feels warm on your skin in the late morning. Nothing moves, including me. In the absence of wind even the seagulls stay on their lookout. The holidays seem far away, although it’s only been a few days since Christmas, New Year and Los Reyes Magos. When all of a sudden the heartbeat of the island slows down. We call it Las Calmas de Enero. The poetic term for the calms of January…

Art, People

Café con Joan Bennàssar: The adventure of living

Joan Bennàssar

Joan Bennàssar about freedom, discipline and women on Mallorca A dreamy garden, all you hear are the birds happily chirping in the trees. Two familiar looking figures, a women and a men, are squatting on wooden poles. Like Adam and Eve in a garden they would never be banished from. It’s the yard of Joan Bennàssar’s workplace near Pollença. A place that is as remote as inspiring for one of the most renowned contemporary artists on Mallorca and the Balearics. His larger than life-sized sculptures…