The 5 posters of the Mercè 2022, the biggest festival in Barcelona
Three women, representing three generations of Barcelonans, make up the main motif of the Mercè 2022 posterthe main festival of Barcelona, in a work by basque designer david de las heraswho has risen to the challenge of overcome the good reception of last year’s posterproduced by the parisian malika favre. The three women represent the young generation, the adult – with an image with a certain withdrawal from the herald, filmmaker carla simon– and mature, and encompass the image of Barcelona’s festival, which this year will be held between September 23 and 26, surrounded by details such as the towers of the Sagrada Familia, the port of Barcelona, pyrotechnics, musicians and a castellera performancea small graphic summary of the program of the festival.
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However, this is not the only poster for Mercè 2022 -which in fact has two versions-, since the illustrator has made five more for specific aspects. in fact, last year, Favre also made several variations, although all were essentially the generic poster with minor changes in details and color range. This year, on the other hand, De las Heras has chosen to do different posters in most casesmaintaining only in one of the versions the image of the three Barcelonans. These are the five complementary posters for Mercè 2022:
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The most daring musical program of the Mercè program It is sheltered under the acronym BAM, corresponding to Barcelona Acció Musical, and has an independent poster where one of the instrumentalists that appears on the generic poster is recovered. The girl in question plays the trumpet and the colors of the ukrainian flag come out of his instrument, a way of remembering that the capital of that country, Kíiv, will be the guest city of La Mercè next year. The red background contrasts with the blue of the main poster, in such a way that it suggests much more action and more movement for a musical program that seeks to be the counterpoint of the more general program.
The invited city poster
The poster of the city invited to the Mercè 2022, which this year is Rome, is the most similar to the original, since it maintains the same image of the three girls from Barcelona and introduces changes in the background color, which is yellow, and introduces the name of the Italian capital. Rome’s participation in the Barcelona festival had performances by Italian musicians such as the female choir led by Rachele Andrioli, the luthier and musician specializing in contemporary folk Paolo Angeli, and the Neapolitan and at the same time Barcelona native Alessio Arena. It must be remembered that, in addition, the name of the guest city in 2023, which will be Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
The poster for the Cursa de la Mercè
The Course of the Mercè It is one of the most popular athletic events in Barcelona and the most important in the context of the festival, which is why it has a different poster, which this year includes several birds that convey the idea of movement that the race has. This civic competition will take place on September 18 -the Sunday before the official start of the Mercè- and this year it will have a charity component in collaboration with the Catalan Foundation for ELA (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Miquel Valls and a 10-kilometre route starting and finishing at Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina.
popular culture poster
All section of Popular culture of the Mercè festivities is included in a specific poster that, above a floral motif, includes a circle of sardana dancers that recalls the restored monument of montjuïc. In addition to traditional dances and castellera days, the popular culture acts include falcon exhibitions, the initial touch, the cavalcade and popular entourage, where the iconic giants and the bestiary are not lackingas well as performances by trabucaires, bastoners and esbarts dansaires, all of this to bring the most genuine samples of Catalan culture closer to the citizens of Barcelona and maintain the most traditional aspect of the festival.
The Mercè Arts de Carrer poster
Finally, one dance couple on green background is the main motif of the poster Mercè Street Arts (MAC), a festival with its own entity and a reference in its genre that brings the public closer to a selection of shows from all the disciplines of the street performing arts -the circus, the theater, the dance or the urban art, as well as proposals for the little ones and the public- and that spreads through the ten districts of the city with a program with hundreds of events.