Surprise! Five works of art are hidden in the streets of Madrid

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Surprise Five works of art are hidden in the streets of Madrid

The feline of Sabek in the Plaza de Callao in Madrid

It will be short-lived. An artistic installation, or rather five in different places of Madrid , which can be seen until next March 4 , as if it were a surprise that one finds when turning the corner.

Thus, open your eyes wide because you will deny those words that push you to say that you already have Madrid well seen when you end up in Plaza de Callao and a three-meter fiberglass feline welcomes you. It's called _Balanc_e and it's the artist's work Sabek who, with this proposal, continues to reflect on the relationship between human and nature.

Surprise Five works of art are hidden in the streets of Madrid

Juan Miguel Quiñones transforms the mythical ice cream into a marble sculpture

There will also be a 2.5 meter marble pole in Alonso Martínez. Yes, a lolly, from ice cream. Do you remember the mythical Dracula? That's what we're talking about, and Juan Miguel Quiñones is responsible for creating it.**

Wool and thread disembark in Augusto Figueroa street with Hortaleza to shape the visual and conceptual charge that characterizes the work of Moneyless. In Fuencarral, next to the Gran Vía, they will make their appearance the optical illusions of the mysterious 1010. And, finally, the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM) welcomes the most explicit work in its claim: follow the leaders, by Isaac Cordal who, with small sculptures, represents a city in ruins as a metaphor for the inconsistency of the pillars of capitalism and its collateral effects.

Disseminate contemporary art and promote collecting among the general public are two of the objectives pursued by this initiative developed within the framework of URVANITY , the first Spanish fair dedicated to New Contemporary Art; and of Madrid Capital of Fashion , a commercial activation initiative promoted by the Madrid City Council to promote and value one of the most important commercial areas of the capital.

The works have been selected by a committee of experts in which the names of Sabina Chagina , co-founder of the ARTMOSSPHERE Biennale of Contemporary Urban Art, in Moscow; Sergio Brown , architect and curator; Y Juan Bautista Peiro , Doctor of Fine Arts and Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia

Surprise Five works of art are hidden in the streets of Madrid

The optical illusions of 1010 take over Fuencarral street

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