Erotic art in the park

Catalan artist Xicu Cabanyes has created an open-air gallery of sensual sculptures just north of Barcelona
  
  


Can Ginebreda sculpture park
Can Ginebreda sculpture park is a work in progress of Catalan artist Xicu Cabanyes who has been creating pieces here since the 1970s Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
The park is filled with more than 100 sculptures, mostly erotic and abstract nudes like these statues of pregnant women giving birth Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
A voluptuous stone hermaphrodite stands among the juniper and pine trees Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
Cabanyes’s art blends into the natural surroundings, like these sculptures barely visible in the hillside Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
And years of rainfall and corrosion have submerged most of the Head of Medusa in a small pond Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
Other stone pieces work with water and are designed to catch and ferry rain though their various channels Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
A wall mural made from bottoms moulded in cement - all life casts from friends Photograph: Alex Sharp
Can Ginebreda sculpture park
Dramatic views of the snow-capped Pyrenees from the top of the sculpture park Photograph: Alex Sharp
 

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