Barcelona Face, Roy Lichtenstein
Moll de Bosch i Alsina, more popularly known as Moll de la Fusta, is the area occupied by the port of the former Barcino in the Roman age, and it is one of the Port Vell areas that is most integrated in the city.It has a close car park at Passeig de Colom, and, like all Port Vell’s venues, it is accessible to people with reduced mobility.The colour and size of the sculpture Barcelona Face make it impossible to miss. Everyone has their own opinion about this piece of public art that has decorated one end of Barcelona's Port Vell since the Olympic era, and blends in with the maritime past and present of one of the city's main leisure areas.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Barcelona was undergoing a transformation designed to modernise the city's infrastructures and reclaim its many dilapidated areas. The old harbour, the Port Vell, was completely redeveloped and new works of art were placed around the area. One of the "letters of introduction" for the Olympic Games was this sculpture designed by the North-American graphic artist and sculptor Roy Lichtenstein, which was made by Diego Delgado between 1991 and 1992. The imposing sculpture stands 15 metres high on the Passeig Colom, very close to the main post office, its outline silhouetted against the blue Barcelona sky.