2021 Category

Luogo Comune is an Italian illustrator and muralist, currently based in Bologna.

With his roots in graffiti culture, he has evolved towards muralism to question aspects of public space, through large mural paintings that put the focus on the place in which they are inserted. His visual language is based on works full of symbolism that combine elements of nature, objects and traditional stories.

Luogo was selected as an artist to develop an innovative participatory process. Involving the Citizen Participation Area of ​​the Oviedo City Council, he asked the citizens what they believed made Oviedo special. Through the answers, a dossier was made so that Luogo could develop a design based on the data that seemed most significant to him.

Thus, the mural reflects, amongst other things, the proximity of nature, the pre-Romanesque, the Naranco, and the fire that devastated Oviedo in 1521.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luogo_comune_/

American resident in Europe. Multidisciplinary artist who explores her creativity both in murals and in illustration, graphic design or experimental installations, among other disciplines.

Through simple shapes and basic colors, she shows us a universe of naïve characters.

2021 was a year marked by renewed interest in the origins of the Camino de Santiago, with Oviedo being Km 0 of the Camino Primitivo. To pay homage to this fact, we wanted to paint a memorial mural somewhere along the camino in the city.

Together with the Department of Tourism and María Álvarez Fernandez, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oviedo and specialist in the Camino de Santiago, we organized a virtual meeting with the artist and Raposu Roxu to explain the meaning of Oviedo as the true origin of the Camino and what this represents.

Thus, Emily was able to develop the design based on the conversations held, to then capture her art on a façade located alongside the Camino, at the feet of the pilgrims who pass by.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emily_eldridge_art/

Catalan, art teacher in Barcelona, ​​painter and muralist, she makes works of classical inspiration.

Her work is interested in the analysis of the language and concepts of classical art, reproduced in paintings that are usually figurative, where force and color are generally the center of attention.

The festival really wanted to dedicate a mural to the Sidros and the Winter Masquerades, an Asturian tradition that was on the verge of disappearing. For this we chose the Catalan artist, for her ability to masterfully capture scenes charged with a subtle oneirism.

We invited Alba to spend a day with the Association for the Recovery of Sidros and Comedies El Cencerru, from Valdesoto, who unconditionally offered to show her their art and tradition in a summer mini-masquerade, so that the muralist could see them in action between jumps, cowbells and guiyaes, wearing their characteristic hoods made of sheepskin and red cloth, and culminating in a fox tail.

Through the photographs she took, she was able to sketch the design of the mural that already shines in the Asturian capital.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/albfs/

Proceso participativo con los Sidros de Valdesoto

Desarrollo del mural

Pioneer of skateboarding in Asturias, he is a technical architect, musician and also an artist. Born in Gijón, Ardao has produced works for institutions, companies and groups, with a style that has a naïve touch and uses iconographic elements of nature, childhood or music.

Once again in Parees we wanted to honor artists from Asturian literature. This time the subject was María Josefa Canellada, Romanist, dialectologist, folklorist and narrator, author of Montesín (1980), the first story in Asturian aimed at a young audience.

We invited Foni to capture scenes from Montesín’s story in the La Granja library, specializing in children’s literature, in San Francisco Park.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foniart/