Sculpture Casting and Carving, Barcelona

Barcelona's sculpture calendar covers exhibitions, private views and open studios: casts and carvings shown together in a gallery hang, a studio thrown open for a single afternoon, an installation set down somewhere in the city for anyone passing through. Barcelona Artists carries each one exactly as its poster wrote it, with the date, an address and a link out to wherever the organiser sells tickets or shares more.

Sculpture in Barcelona shows where the city's exhibitions show: MACBA, the Fundacio Joan Miro and the Museu Picasso anchor a sculpture piece within their wider programme, and the private view that follows a mount is the moment the calendar turns from making to showing. A cast needs a foundry with a bay, ventilation for the pour and a floor rated for the weight, so casting keeps to a workshop built for it, while carving and welding travel more easily into whatever space a sculptor works from day to day.

The sculptor turns up in person for the private view, happy to talk through a cast or carving before the crowd thins, which makes the opening the one evening built for conversation. Once it passes, the same casts, carvings or installation settle into a longer, quieter run with nobody hovering nearby - the better moment for a slow look at a finished surface or a welded joint. None of this needs an account to read, so a visitor can check a date and simply turn up.

Posting one of these is open to any registered member of Barcelona Artists, not only those holding the artist role, so a listing here can come from a first-time carver as easily as from an established one. A reader can narrow by discipline or by style, then move on to the sculptors themselves, the works they have finished, or the sculpture hub for the wider picture of who is working in the city.