Folly or art? Catalonian town buys labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m

In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corbero is to become public space

Like a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corbero near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed without plans, obeying only space and poetry".

It's not my home, it's a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures," the artist Xavier Corbero told the art magazine AD shortly before his death at 81 in 2017.