{"id":1088183,"date":"2023-06-05T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/vigilantes-flotantes-nos-encomiendan-a-cuidar-y-respetar-el-mar-mediterraneo\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:57:31","slug":"floating-watchmen-entrust-us-to-care-for-and-respect-the-mediterranean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/floating-watchmen-entrust-us-to-care-for-and-respect-the-mediterranean-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating watchmen entrust us to care for and respect the Mediterranean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The Miraestels, the floating sculptures by Robert Llim\u00f3s in the Port of Barcelona, seem to fall backwards before the display of the many mega-yachts that are being repaired in the shipyard.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Miraestels by Robert Llim\u00f3s are one of the attractions of the Rambla de Mar. These floating sculptures are a representation of the human figure, 3.5 meters high, and are part of a series of variations, in sizes and materials, on this being that seems to question the sky.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>With their watchful presence, the Miraestels entrust us to care for and respect the sea, especially our Mediterranean<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p>Robert Llim\u00f3s, painter and sculptor from Barcelona, pays homage to the artist Joan Brosa with these floating sculptures. Its origin is a collection of poems by Brossa that he named Saltamart\u00ed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.miraestels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Vigilantes-flotantes-nos-encomiendan-a-cuidar-y-respetar-el-mar-Mediterraneo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At first, Llim\u00f3s created three different figures as an approximation to Brossa himself. The first was walking, the second was wearing her shoes, the third was looking at the sky. He remodeled the latter and made it grow in scale, as well as making it float.<\/p>\r\n<p>In this way, the saltmarti jumps into the water transformed and renamed Miraestels, which is made of fiberglass and polyester resin from nautical vessels<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.miraestels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/LV.png\" alt=\"LV\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavanguardia.com\/participacion\/las-fotos-de-los-lectores\/20221111\/8599778\/miraestels-frente-megayates-barcelona.html\">https:\/\/www.lavanguardia.com\/participacion\/las-fotos-de-los-lectores\/20221111\/8599778\/miraestels-frente-megayates-barcelona.html<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miraestels, the floating sculptures by Robert Llim\u00f3s in the Port of Barcelona, seem to fall backwards before the display of the many mega-yachts that are being repaired in the shipyard. The Miraestels by Robert Llim\u00f3s are one of the attractions of the Rambla de Mar. These floating sculptures are a representation of the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1086955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Miraestels, the floating watchmen by Robert Llim\u00f3s in the Port of Barcelona","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraestels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}