Seeing the street sign of the head, one does not realizes that it is a mole. It is made with the same tiles and the same font that many other boards that adorn the historic city center. But this is different. Instead of an allegorical motif on the tiles is a picture of reality: a corner of Lavapies, with its half-ruined building, its graffiti, wires hanging, damp and a full stop sign stickers that advertise rooms for 200 euros. What is drawn on the plate is just the corner that is hanging. What that plan has been in self-referential City Hall?
"I wanted to reflect a reality using a very common to expose how is the neighborhood, "says Diana Larrea, author of this urban intervention." But camouflaged so well that many people do not realize. "
The project is called distinguished Streets (www.dianalarrea.com) and won a contest for the association AVAM (Associated Visual Artists of Madrid) subvncionado by the Community.
funny thing is that at first was an ephemeral work, going to last long that usually takes graffiti - or what does the White Night, which coincided with, but they have endured nearly six months without anyone touching them.
"The municipal workers have painted gray graffiti from the streets where they are, but have left my work, "says the artist," I do not think it caught and assume that is a thing of the City Council.
In the original plate Head Street, a few feet below, appears a dagger, a man's head on a tray and the bloody head of a ram. It refers to a seventeenth century legend according to which a servant who beheaded the priest served. Time then bought a ram's head at the flea market and when a constable was stopped by the trail of blood to let go, opened the package and showed the head of the murdered. On that Madrid legend falls fine irony of Larrea.
"The original plates are fine, but show an idyllic Madrid, the historical thought of as a kind of Disneyland for tourists." Larrea
put five plates in broad daylight, with a ladder, a drill and without permission. "We did so brazenly that the police spent several times but did not say anything," recalls the artist.
Ambassadors portrayed in the street a wonderful building that bears emblazoned walled least since she moved into the neighborhood for eight years. In sub-Saharan Cap drew a round the corner, "to her, a friend said 'why modern City Hall that puts immigrants on the plates! ". In plaza Ministriles, Larrea drew graffiti that have already been deleted and your motherboard is the only reminder.
Rhodes on the street is no plaque or not the building pictured, that outside the house occupied Karakola Eskalera feminist. I broke down last week as the owner tells the bar next door, which was never set in the discreet plate rebellious.
"People just use the street to get from one place to another and not fixed at all, "said Larrea, who has a theory about why so many months later no one has removed their badges," Because they are in Lavapies, that is good and bad in this neighborhood, the lack of control of public space. .. if they were in Serrano had not lasted long. "
A little history
- In the eighteenth century placed the first ceramic plates with the number of blocks in cobalt blue.
- Between 1880 and 1890 put some labeled in black, without ornaments, most have disappeared.
- In the twentieth century, in the thirties and sixties, are placed some decorative elements of the School of Ceramics in the Moncloa.
- Between 1991 and 2003, Alvarez Manzano makes the current plates ceramist Alfredo Talavera school Ruiz de Luna.
- In 2010 Diana Larrea placed theirs, printed on vinyl tiles.
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