Fans of Emily in Paris, the popular Netflix series, will surely remember Emily and Gabrielle's encounter at the Balloon Museum during Season 3. A colorful space where the heroes have fun like kids in the pool and roam around rooms full of colors and pop air works. Well, it is now possible to have that experience in Barcelona. After collecting successes in Rome, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Naples, New York, London and Atlanta, the Balloon Museum will install its traveling exhibition Pop air in the Ciutat Comtal.
Barcelona's Victoria Eugenia Palace, located in Montjuïc, will host this dynamic and interactive exhibition that has already been visited by 4 million visitors in the various cities that have hosted it. Perfect plan to enjoy some time with friends, family or have a date.
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A large collection of balls under the ceiling is also full of balls representing a new big world, impossible shapes made of inflatables and colours… The Balloon Museum is an experience for the senses. It's not just about meditation. This exhibition invites its visitors to interact with everything they see.
This is the first exhibition dedicated to inflatable art, which gives a vision of the result of encountering an element such as air through a path with inflatable sculptures, interactive works and large-scale installations. They explained from the exhibition that “the popular air reflects new artistic expressions and techniques associated with travel and the promotion of unpublished contemporary works.”
They explained from the exhibition, “The Balloon Museum’s installation responds to the sensory immersion in which the viewer interacts between unexpected shapes and moving works that he can touch and feel, and through which he can dialogue and be affected.” A way of orienting culture as contemplative pleasure that calls for physical, digital and cultural socialization. “People are constantly stimulated to see, feel and live thanks to inflatable art,” he says.
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In total, Pop air contains 17 works created by artists and studios of international stature. Polyhydra, designed by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, is an interactive installation that invites visitors to create the work by connecting tubes of different sizes and lengths; The Cloud Swing, designed by Lindsay Glatz & Curious Form, offers a playful experience with swings suspended from clouds of color and light; The Glowing Snail, designed by Hyperstudio and Mauro Pace, is an immersive and interactive installation to contemplate the invisible forces that shape the world. HyperStudio will also feature Hypercosmo, the heart of the Pop air gallery.
The Tholos, on the other hand, designed by Plastic Fantastic, is a structure that challenges the visitor to think about spatial geometry and gravity; “The Knot,” by Cyril Lancelin, is an inflatable sculpture that represents a knot of reflection in space; A Never-Ending Story, by Motorefisico, transports visitors to a space where traditional spatial references are lost to enter a multiverse; ARIA: Breathing Immersive Experience, by Pepper's Ghost, is an incredible immersive experience where the visitor is surrounded by a large number of balloons lost in the sky.
(Jimmy Kuehnle's Paw(Nssi) invites you to enter an inflatable maze with a new adventure at every turn; Pneuhaus & Bike Powered Events' Canopy invites visitors to become part of its interactive installation; and The Ginjos, by Rub Kandy, an installation with characters of different shapes and colors , The Goof by Filthy Luker, with its amazing inflatable sculpture, Together Forever, an inflatable installation revolving around concepts such as social relationships and union between people.
Finally, visitors will also be able to see Into the Rainbow, by Ultravioletto, which will take the visitor through virtual reality glasses into different scenarios; Soft tornado. A Quiet Storm from Ensemble, with its immersive and experimental textures; and Max Streicher's Silenus, a giant inflatable silhouette created by the artist from the mold of an artist friend.
Times and tickets
Barcelona's Balloon Museum will open its doors on May 1 and will remain in the city until September 15. The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Thursday from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm and from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm, and on Fridays the afternoon hours are extended until 10 pm. On weekends, you can visit Pop air from 10am to 10pm on Saturdays and 10am to 9pm on Sundays. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or through their website.
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