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Cinta Vidal draws a Mercè made of city and memory
The poster for the Barcelona 2026 Festa Major turns the architecture, heritage and emblematic spaces of the ten districts into a large visual mosaic that also takes the form of a mural.
The Barcelona Festival is releasing one of its most unique images in recent years. Barcelona artist Cinta Vidal has designed the poster for La Mercè 2026, a composition conceived as a "pattern of recognizable buildings" that transforms the city into a landscape of impossible perspectives, faithful to the visual language that characterizes her work. For the first time, the poster is accompanied by a 33 square meter mural that can be seen at the Paco Candel Library, a project inspired by the Mexican muralist tradition discovered during Barcelona's participation in the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
Coinciding with the Year of Architecture, Vidal builds a tribute to Barcelona based on its most representative spaces, bringing together historical heritage, contemporary architecture, public art and urban landscape in a single composition that invites to be discovered little by little.
Among the spaces and buildings represented are Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona Cathedral, the Temple of Augustus, Barcelona City Hall, the Basilica of La Mercè, Passeig de Gràcia, Ciutadella Park, the Venetian Towers, the Joan Maragall Gardens, the Grec Theatre, the Joan Miró Park, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, the Paco Candel Library, the Pedralbes Monastery, the Sarrià Market, Park Güell, the Horta Labyrinth Park, the Vall d'Hebron Mistos, the Plaça Major in Nou Barris, the Fabra i Coats complex, the Bogatell Beach and the Temps Vertader sundial.
To these spaces are added several symbolic elements that evoke the spirit of the festival and the Barcelona identity, such as espadrilles with seven veins, a baritone, a jug of oil, tomatoes, running shoes or an olive tree, integrated into a composition that reflects the cultural plurality of the city and the diversity of the Mercè programming.
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