"My heart beats"
"Messages of love in times of war" . we know you sing it Tears of blood , but who engraves these phrases, which make passers-by smile, on the walls of Barcelona ?
On any given Tuesday you are walking through Raval , on the way to work, lost in your thoughts and accelerated by the tasks that await you, and suddenly a message assails you, like this, without anesthesia, that says: "Thank you heart for every beat" . And you do not need more, it has made your day.
One of the hidden messages in the Raval
These messages written on cans , which encourage you to follow them as if they were the whistles of a game and that they are collected in photos as if they were stickers , they are a plague that spreads at a frantic pace through Barcelona. Be careful, they can infect you with something very difficult to remove: a chronic smile.
“ We are dedicated to making "Jakuna matata" , live and be happy. Our mission is to make the world a little better place, always on the side of positivism, humanizing the gray urban streets ” the creators say of this phenomenon that breaks the monotony in the Catalan capital to Traveler.es. In fact, the famous line from the movie The Lion King, it was the first to go out.
Biography: "DosENAMORados en CANS"
The artificers want to stay underground, in the purest Banksy style, the famous British graffiti artist. "My territory is where I put my feet." **We survive in Barcelona ** and when we started painting cans, 4 years ago, we lived in the Raval ”, that's all the artists tell us about them. And although curiosity might overwhelm us, we accept your anonymity because we want you to keep "giving the can" In the best of ways, of course.
While we fall in love with their works, they do the same. United by the passion for art (and for love, in general), This couple launches messages with a spray to everyone who walks through ** Barcelona ,** but using an original canvas: cans of soda, preserves, aerosols...
What would we do without urban art?
“We have always been two creative people, **one of us more from the world of the street (graffiti and street art)**, the other from the world of academic art. Our love was very intense from the beginning and we merged in all aspects of life. We were looking to do something original and the can came up. We tried, we liked and we got addicted to this madness ”, explains the couple to Traveler.es.
The idea was born in 2014 , since then they have made more than 500 interventions in the street , apart from private commissions and some works that are exhibited in the **Artevistas Gallery**, in Barcelona.
In which neighborhoods can we find them? These phrases have made the corners where they have been installed their own, filling with life the facades of ** Raval , Gracia , Pueblo Nuevo , el Gótico , el Born and la Barceloneta .**
If you want to find this message, search for Gracia!
Words that make you smile, poetry, philosophy, phrases from songs that you may have engraved on your skin with ink, reflections that bring back memories... The cans can tell you from a simple "good day" to deeper messages like "Life should be yellow, love and that's it" , but always with a clear objective : express feelings and brighten hearts.
Art is like that, it is sentimental, intense, revolutionary and capricious . If you don't go to him, he will come looking for you. "For us the street is the best art gallery in the world and always has the doors open so that anyone can express themselves freely in it.
In this way, we also question socially rooted concepts such as private property or the fact that make art altruistically without seeking financial reward. You give away your work and leave it in the form of urban art, knowing that it will be ephemeral”, the creators of @me_lata told Traveler.es.
For its part, love knows no borders or languages. For this reason, these original tin cans have gone the distance and **landed on the streets of Paris**, claiming the smile as a universal language.
“So far we have made love in a can through the streets of Barcelona, Badalona , ** Girona, Majorca ** **and Paris **. Our dream is to reach as many people as possible, the more cities, the better. Changing the world, because we believe that the only possible revolution will be made from love. And the more that understand this cause, the sooner we will get to it” they confess to us.