How far has Madrid gone towards keeping the spirit of La Movida alive?
LP: The collective vision is that things are a bit weird at the moment. It’s not a good thing to be an artist in Madrid. You will be starving, not get a job. It’s not accepted by society, so it’s hard to get people together to do stuff on a creative level. You want to revive the creative spirit of the city? LP: Exactly. We wanted to rise up Madrid and make it fun as the capital of a country. Why can’t it be like Berlin or London, where there are a lot of young people doing really cool things? Just because the city has a real retro vision of how arts and music should be. They take their hats off to the foreign artists, but not for their own. There must be something that inspires you in the city. LP: There is a place called the Art Triangle that has the Prado Museum in its neo-classical building: the Reina Sofia for contemporary arts, and the Thyssen that is a private collection of art from the 10th century to now. The Triangle has you covered for an “art day,” and there are a lot of gal
