Zaragoza is an outdoor canvas
Today we can already say that ** Zaragoza is a standard bearer for urban art and contemporary culture.** If you walk through neighborhoods like San José , you will be able to appreciate the footprint that an initiative is leaving that will make your walk more entertaining. It will be like walking through a museum: it will be **walking through the Urban Gallery of Zaragoza**.
TO ALL SPRAY AND STENCIL
We do not want any more white walls, ugly, old and disused, starving, "dead of paint." The Urban Gallery of Zaragoza is in charge of locating them and giving them color: they find walls for artists.
Urban Gallery It was conceived together with the Asalto festival and the Zaragoza Cultural platform . Through its website, artists can register , see the walls that are available and request permits to intervene in public space, thus leaving their mark on the city. Of course, they must present a sketch previously.
Once three months pass, it will be painted on top of that wall so that it can be used by another artist because "one of the objectives is to generate new intervention spaces for the tool so that they are constantly changing and transforming , says Victoria Ribers.
A young man paints a wall for the initiative of the Urban Gallery
Ribers is he brain and engine of this initiative. We talked to her, artistic cultural manager of the project and specialized in urban art. "I think it's important express messages in an energetic way in the public space ”, She affirms to Traveler.es.
Therefore, this idea was carried out aimed above all at "artistic generations that want to get out of the blank page or already recognized artists who want a space to paint”, explains Victoria.
At first she had a hard time letting go. However, Victoria got down to work and went one step further creating the project _“_Dynamic Urban Gallery in 2017” to boost it. And so the activity began. And the endless number of artists who decorate Zaragoza.
MEN AND WOMEN WHO AWAKEN THE WALLS OF ZARAGOZA
The artist **Tono Cruz (@tonocruz) , father of project ** Blee , gave a workshop at one of the Urban Gallery meetings and sees movement as "a great fortune for the cultural heritage of the city". The artist's mouth is small when talking about the Urban Gallery, considering it "one of the best initiatives they have at the national level in terms of revitalization", as he explains to Traveler.es
Several protagonists of the initiative next to the La Harinera building
for the artist Kiss Me ( @mebes ) this project means "taking your studio to the public space", with the aim of “Use the Urban Gallery to give visibility and importance to women in fields such as art or activism ; I was recently told that thanks to seeing the portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe that I made, they had discovered her life and her work ", she tells Traveler.es.
Also Ludovica López ( @ludelopez ) she participates with a symbolic poetic “trompe l'oeil” portraying the figure of the woman seen from the perspective of art”.
The sketch of the proposal by Lu de López
THE FUTURE OF URBAN GALLERY
The Urban Gallery has shown that they still have a lot of war to give. But always in a way socially responsible with heritage from the city. "Zaragoza Cultural supports it, considering it an innovative project that provides artistic content to the city and encourages the development of local artists and favors the development of a critical mass," says Victoria.
She also adds that “ the search for financing and sponsorships It is what makes materializing actions and activities difficult in many cases”.
Stencil made by artist Georgia O'Keeffe Bes Me
Victoria is clear about it, she defines the last event with great enthusiasm: "believe me, it sounds crazy, but the artistic experience in all its facets, disciplines (creator, observer etc...) it is a powerful weapon of transformation at an individual and social level”.
The initiative that asks for walls to paint