2017 Category

Her work evokes internal landscapes and raises metaphorical reflections on the environment, expressed through geometric abstraction, provoking emotions and pulsing the viewer’s perception through the intense relationship -compositive, conceptual, technical- that she maintains with space and color. Mental cartographies that take on material life to deal, from the visual misunderstanding, with the ideas of structure, pattern and variation, or with the boundary between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional.

Website: taratiel.com/web/
Instagram: instagram.com/annaovni/

Process of the intervention

At the request of the neighbors, the mural, situated on the facade of the block of apartments on Calle Lorenzo Abruñedo, evokes the Hidrocantábrico Power Plant in Ciudad Naranco which was demolished at the beginning of this century in spite of neighbours’ opposition. 2017 was the centenary of the construction of that power station which supplied electricity to the city, and the community of owners of nº 24 of Lorenzo Abruñedo thought to commemorate that milestone. A participatory process was developed between the neighbours and the artist guided by the artistic mediators of Raposu Roxu.

Phase 1: Meeting with the neighbours of the block

Presentation of the artist Anna Taratiel confirming that she was to complete the mural on the facade based on her style and trajectory.

Phase 2: Meeting between neighbours and artist

Presentation via skype of the history of the building and the missing power station so that the artist could develop the sketch according to the needs of the local community.

Phase 3: Presentation of the sketch

The artist presented the sketch to the community of neighbours for approval.

Phase 4: Painting the mural

After the realization of the sketch the artist created her piece on the facade.

Video of Titi Muñoz

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

Fotos de Mirahaciatras

Born in Foggia in 1986, he lives and works in Rome.

In his works of synthetic forms and bright colors, through a fundamental language he is able to negotiate multiple layers of interpretation. This approach situates his stories on the perennial threshold between innocence and artifice, serenity and catastrophe, in a magnetic tension that is the interpretive key of our own existence.

The new Agostino mural in Oviedo

Parees Festival appreciates collaboration with the neighbors of the Pumarín neighborhood, the Sin Nombre Bar, the Fuente Pandu Neighborhood Association and the Agora Association, Foto Cine Club, all protagonists in the participatory process of Agostino Iacurci’s intervention in Pumarín.

It was an incredible process where the artist had the opportunity to get to know the neighbours and hear their stories first-hand, discover their anecdotes and relive the neighbourhood’s past.

From that meeting the final idea for the mural was born: an apple tree (“Pumar” in Asturian) from which the “Pumarín” neighbourhood gets its name. Because as they counted their neighbours, the neighbourhood began to resemble an orchard extending to the outskirts of the city.

Photos of Mirahaciatras

Vídeo Titi Muñoz

Real life holds moments of great beauty and simplicity that I like to interpret in a way close to that original reality, as a way of respecting this beauty, giving great importance to the way in which colors interact and the way brush strokes flow, so that, although in reality it does not have to be this way, in the work everything keeps a sense that allows the viewer to understand my point of view about that reality.

Elisa’s mural is on Goya Street next to Oviedo’s No. 1.

Photos of Mirahaciatras

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

Susie Hammer was born in Warsaw and a few years ago she moved to Spain looking for a more pleasant climate. She finished studying Design and Illustration in Madrid, where she continues to live today. She works as an illustrator both for publishers and in her own projects. She is the author of children’s books and publications and with her cheerful and colorful style she creates a naive and carefree world. What she intends with her drawings is to bring a smile to both little ones and adults, telling stories through simple shapes and bright colors. Sometimes, when she does not draw, she dedicates herself to large format painting and organizes children’s workshops.

Website susiehammer.com

Photos of Mirahaciatras

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

She draws all those things that inhabit the spaces where the worlds touch. Her creations reflect on concepts such as identity, the animal and the idea of ​​the monstrous; the representation of disturbing and bizarre beasts that inhabit new imaginaries.

Her practice revolves around painting, illustration, graphic design and urban intervention. She understands creativity not only as an end but as a tool, and has collaborated with different associations and entities in projects within the social sphere.

She was born in Asturias and trained in Fine Arts at the University of Vigo, spending her final year on a scholarship program in Brazil. Today she has retreated into the rural environment, from where she paints, grows and cultivates the garden.

Website purajauria.molestar.org

Her proposal for a mural for Parees

The project that is born out of a participative process with the neighborhoods of Naranco City, with thanks to Marisa, Activa Naranco City and all the inhabitants of the park. The mural is an interactive piece open to adults and children with blackboard areas where we can create, experiment, stain, erase … A proposal that invites us to appropriate ourselves the walls of our city.

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

Photos of Mirahaciatras

In my murals I observe the environment to find evocations and memories of each place and then interpret them on the walls, adapting to the format and situating them in an organic and balanced way in conjunction with the context that surrounds my work.

Architecture encourages me to find new ways to change the appearance of the building and exchange visual information so that both the building and my painting maintain the protagonism, seeking a neutral final aesthetic as I want to respect the coexistence with the neighbours and the environment of the building.

The mural of Spogo is on the corner of Ramón Prieto Bances street and Rafael Sarandeces street.

Photos of Mirahaciatras

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

Vídeo de Titi Muñoz

Creatura is a cultural association based in Langreo. It was created at the end of 2015 with the aim of promoting urban culture in all its aspects. Formed by urban artists of different profiles, it works through interventions in the environment, mostly graffiti and mural painting. The aim is to redefine public spaces and establish a dialogue with neighbors, embodying a conception of the city as something alive and constantly evolving.

Represented by artists: Hosk | Jalos | SKF

The Creatura mural is on Calle Fernando Vela, 10, Oviedo.

Photos of Mirahaciatras

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

The artistic association AsociARTE, was established in 2010 by a group of young people who had been working for a long time to spread the culture of urban art in Asturias, with the aim of bringing together young artists and creators and enabling them to share their work with a wider audience.

Represented by Eleman, Niño and Xav

The mural of AsociARTE is in the tunnel of Avenida de Pando under the Avenida del Cantábrico.

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

Photos of Mirahaciatras

The association Paint Pression seeks to raise awareness of citizens and to to work to integrate and dignify graffiti within Asturian society as a mode of artistic representation.

Represented by Brus, DMS1 and Sonek

Photos of Fernando Alcalá

Photos of Mirahaciatras

La Asociación de las Artes Visuales de Asturias (AAVA) se creó en 2001 para la lucha por los derechos de los artistas asturianos.

Su web: aavasturias.com

Encarna Díaz Velasco

Con una mirada interpretativa convierte en obra los símbolos y las realidades, a la vez que entre los trazos abstractos emerge alguna figura reconocible.

La dimensión humana se carga de colores que aluden a selvas, mares y cielos, como las aguamarinas que retraen al azul maya, resultante de una mezcla orgánica y mineral.