The Municipal Office of Graffiti directed by Rebeca Pérez in collaboration with Ferrovial Servicios joins once again the Murcia Street Art Project collective to bring to our city artists of recognized prestige for the realization of new murals, which will be added to the collection that already It exists in the streets of our city, which already exceed half a hundred.
This time and on the occasion of the exhibition held at the MURAM in Cartagena, the Murcia Street Art Project collective and the Graffiti Office merge again to bring to Murcia artists such as KraserTres, Mederic Truay, L7Matrix, Nels and Chapu, Karim Hamgeo and Angel Toren.
In this way, Kraser, the artist specializing in mural painting, who celebrates thirty years of dedication, has made a work of 30 square meters on the walls of the pavilion of Santa Maria de Gracia, interpreting a Greco-Roman sculpture.
This work will be added to the agenda of Interventions is extended until May 30 and during this period of time will go past the aforementioned artists.
With this initiative, which has also involved the Department of Sports and Health directed by Felipe Coello, reinforces one of the objectives of the Municipal Office of Graffiti, which is the amortization of spaces in disuse or degraded by replacing them with authentic works of art .
"We continue to work and position our city as a benchmark for urban art at a national level, thereby achieving an additional tourist attraction for people who are interested in visiting our municipality."
In the year 2017 and on the occasion of the exhibition "Urban Art, from the street to the museum" Murcia Street art project and the office of graffiti went hand in hand to perform interventions on the street at the same time that you could enjoy the exhibition of urban art with the highest number of visits that have been exhibited in the MUBAM, reaching more than 20,000 visits.
In total more than 20 murals were made by our city by renowned artists, both national and international and local.
Most of them are located on the back walls of the FREMM.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia