The Santa Catalina neighborhood will have an artistic testimony of the confinement, or at least a work that has a lot to do with the game of social interaction that this confinement due to the pandemic has generated in most blocks or neighborhood communities. This is the new mural that Nano Arribas Lázaro is working on commissioned by the Santa Catalina Merchants Association. At the moment, we are already beginning to see the framework of the scene that this artist is going to represent in a façade of Alameda Street, which is on the corner of Santiago Street. It is a trompe l’oeil with which the building seems to be topped with gothic vaults and a surprising perspective, a sketch that had been archived since he began to collaborate with this group and that has been postponing while developing other content in the previous murals. After the experience lived in recent months, the idea takes on another dimension. “Making a trompe l’oeil on a wall where windows would appear and people would interact is the initial idea they gave me when I made the first mural, but others have been made and it remained pending, an open wall in the form of a trompe l’oeil where reality what is painted merges and there are people who interact, what happens is that right now with confinement it acquires another connotation that it did not have ”, comments the artist.
The human content of this scene will make up 13 people, who in some cases stand out for what they have done during confinement, part of them neighbors of the neighborhood that the artist wanted to immortalize. Without giving more clues so as not to detract from the ability to surprise, Nano does announce that there will be some element in this mural that breaks with the realism and everyday life of this print. “It can be said that there are 13 people that I am going to paint, many of them are from the neighborhood, others not added but it is a wink that has been added to people who have done something during this confinement,” the author advances.
Detail of the mural in process / image provided
Unlike other works in which there was a roadmap that set deadlines quite precisely, this time the artist does not venture to give a date, although he hopes to finish it before July 8.
While working on this mural, he is also collaborating with the merchants association on other initiatives that this year’s cultural week focuses on. Among them, the Riverside Association of the Arts has begun this Monday to work on a series of murals in the Plaza Maestro Nebreda, which pay tribute to the local commerce itself.
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