La Brossa has a new bar! – Joan Brossa Foundation
Last Saturday, April 11, we opened the bar Trampolinethe new bar in La Brossa managed by Canada with the artistic direction of Neus Masdeu. An artistic project in the form of a bar, which wants to be a space for art, gastronomy and collective meetings.
Conceived as an installation in continuous transformation and taking the title of the project that Antoni Miralda and Montse Guillén created in 1981 in Cadaqués, the Trampolí, like La Brossa, presents itself as a space for experimentation for artists and the public.
Bar Trampoline
El Trampolí is an artistic project in constant development that takes the form of a bar, and a bar is the perfect expression for everything that Trampolí wants to be: a binomial of traca and handkerchief as they form Neus Masdeu (artistic direction) i Canada (bar management).
The leitmotif of the Trampoline will be the gastronomic olympiads: omelette competition in the purest Brossa style, olive pit tossing, custard eating competition, drinking in a porrón, among others. These seemingly sporting meetings will be a pretext to get to know different traditions from all over, personalities linked to art and gastronomy and, why not say it explicitly, to have a good time. After all: what is a bar but a place to be together?
At the Trampolí, however, everything can happen: performative popular meals, concerts scheduled by the Juanpe Gonzalezparades and many more surprises.
As an art installation, the bar space will be under constant construction and, through its temporary elements, will point to the events of the season. In this first stage, we will be able to find in space from a tadpole to some seitans made of papier-mâché.
The name of Trampoline it comes from the first project they did together Anthony Miralda i Montse Guillén in Cadaqués, in 1981: Flute and Trampoline (one of Masdeu’s favorite projects, one of his top references in the world of art and gastronomy). In the bar, there is a small frame with a picture of Miralda, Guillén, Brossa and Pepa Llopis in Guillén’s first restaurant in Barcelona.
Likewise, the Trampoline is an element for jumping, going up, throwing yourself into the pool. Making art projects also has something of this jump. In the same way that La Brossa is and has been a springboard for many artists and the public, today, the bar will also be one.
Go up the stairs, pause for a moment before jumping and… 1, 2, 3…!
Neus Masdeu and La Cañada
