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...frocks join hands. A brass band brays for a slow-motion minuet. Toes out! Toes in! Deliberately, then merrily, 500 people count steps. The sardanas are courtly affairs, far removed from the stomping passion of Spanish flamenco. Under the Franco dictatorship, the dances were banned as subversive evidence of Catalan nationalism. But now, on Sunday afternoons, they are as ubiquitous as barbershop quartets at Iowa county fairs. "They're a sign of our identity," says Joan Anglada, a furniture salesman, pausing for breath...
...with its windfall of government money and free publicity, and has catapulted itself into the ranks of Europe's favored capitals. "You go to Milan, Paris or Hamburg, and people marvel that Barcelona has become the most dynamic city in Europe," says Jose Maria Marti Ruffo, a London-based Catalan businessman...
...early Dali was a different matter, an insecure and ravenously aggressive young dandy, wringing an uncanny poetry not only from his own neurosis but also from the psychic inflammations of Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Like his fellow Catalan Joan Miro, Dali was deep-dyed with images of place, among them the contorted rocks and flat beaches of the coast near the town of Figueras, where he grew up, and the flowing, bizarre buildings of Barcelona's master of art nouveau, Antonio Gaudi...
Spain has the Catalan sculptor Susana Solano, 42, whose constructions of sheet iron, mesh and rods are based on the image of baths and attain a weird intensity in balancing the plain, structurally explicit means of minimalism against an atmosphere of secrecy and menace: they could be prison cells or metaphorical labyrinths...
...just Catalan in name. It prolongs the spirit of older Barcelonan artists and architects, a sense of material fantasy that still saturates the place and gives Corbero's work its sardonic, free-associating air and its obsessively fine craftsmanship. There are delicious Miroesque touches in this show, like the comb jauntily set on the queen's head, grooved with the bars of the Catalan shield, or the wacky little pyramid that balances on the needle peak of a pawn called Miss Capicua, 1987-88. Other details resurrect the images of heraldic encounter, the dungeons and dragons that lie within...