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I was pleasantly surprised, due to its speed, that the graffiti that some hooligan had done on the mural of the Kiss in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona has already been cleaned. The work returns to its original splendor, as can be seen in this image in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
The mural El mundo nace en cada beso (or The world is born in each kiss) is a photo mosaic located in the Plaza de Isidre Nonell, which attracts the gazes (and the cameras of mobile phones) of thousands of tourists. It was made by photographer Joan Fontcuberta and ceramist Antoni Cumella in 2014.
The work was composed with snapshots provided by the people of Barcelona, ​​representative of moments of freedom, and takes the form of a kiss.
And it is that as the inscription on the mural indicates: “The noise of a kiss is not as deafening as that of a cannon but its echo is more lasting”, phrase of the famous doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The required theme for the photographs was “live free.” With them, 4,000 ceramic tesserae were formed, distributed in 50 rows of eighty tesserae each, which together form the image of kissing lips.
