A few meters after entering the town of Ciñera, a large mural where the yellow color stands out above the rest and which reflects a child welcomes visitors to this town.
Many, the vast majority, come to Ciñera to visit the Faedo and take this route, one of the best known in the province. But more and more come to enjoy live the different murals that ‘colour’ the city.
And it is that painting, urban art, is already one of the great claims of Ciñera, where almost a dozen works give that life that was so much claimed by a town that, with the closure of mining, has entered an unquestionable downhill where the showiness and color try to change the mood of its people.
A local artist, the great promoter
The great forerunner of these murals, author of practically all of the existing ones in Ciñera, is a local artist, Sergio Canga, who admits that he began for fun, as a hobby, at the garage door of his house and in his home, and ended up taking his works to different parts of the town.
The sports fields, the park, the school or the beginning of the route to El Faedo are some of the locations of these murals that began for fun and “to meet with friends from other cities and provinces to do what we liked” to be your profession.
Different motives and motivations
Because what began as a way of expressing his way of understanding art has ended up leading to professional commissions from different residents of the town and the region to give ‘life’ to his walls.
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The mural painted to raise funds against childhood cancer is one of the most spectacular in Ciñera. /
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With different motifs, such as the countryside, education, fauna or eternal love, his paintings have gone further. The mural dedicated to Sinesio and Socorro and their 80 years of marriage went viral, putting Ciñera on the network map, but another mural, in the local park, also had another aspect, solidarity, by being part of an altruistic initiative for the fight against childhood cancer at the Hospital San Joan de Deu in Barcelona. “It has been the most special and the one that has had the most impact,” admits Esecé to leonoticias.
The ‘street art’ also expands through the Central Mountain
The people like this initiative, “the people are delighted” and more and more visitors “come to Ciñera to see the murals and now stay in the bars or restaurants” in an action in which it has collaborators, the last one of them was Raquel Moledo, whom he met at a contest in La Robla where Esecé gave him his wall.
“La Bañeza is well known, but in the northern part of the province, both in La Robla and Ciñera, it is expanding and people are delighted,” says Moledo, who came across urban art almost by chance: “Michele Caradonna, a teacher I had in Italy, taught me a lot. I liked to paint, but I didn’t have much knowledge and thanks to him I launched myself into this world».
The head of Esecé is still thinking, it is still scheming what wall to give life to, but it already has a new project: a tribute to mining – which it has already executed in the neighboring town of Santa Lucía de Gordón -. He now begins the search for a site and the sketches to add a new work of urban art to Ciñera.
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