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GAR GAR Festival Celebrates 8 Years in Penelles, Spain

GAR GAR Festival Celebrates 8 Years in Penelles, Spain

The Gar Gar Festival in Penelles, Spain, is in its eighth edition this year, showcasing street art, muralism, and a new fleet of artists creating pleasant and clever attractions for city walls.

“The festival hopes to generate resources that allow us to correct the effects of time and the deterioration of our streets, reinspiring hope in our neighbours,” says the website, and who can deny the regenerative effect that street art has been adding to moribund sectors of the urban environment for the last decade or two.

Gijs Vanhee. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)

Mounted in early May this year over a period of a 3 day festival, Gar Gar featured nine hundred square meters of murals and a program of art, projection mapping, music, expositions, craft beer, and food trucks, along with workshops related to other artistic disciplines. A cooperative of public and privately funded projects, Gar Gar is steered and administered with the help of the advertising and interactive design firm Binomic Cat, which also brings artists together for commercial walls on other occasions.

We’re pleased to show you some of the murals this year thanks to the talent and industry of photographer Lluis Bulbena Olivas, who shares his images here with BSA readers.

Gijs Vanhee. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena
Anna Repullo. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Wedo Goas. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Sucri & Furyo. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Guillermo Font (2022). Sucri & Furyo. Miquel Wert (2021). GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Kamma Marlo. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Pedro Poder. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Pedro Podre. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Rame. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Helene Planquelle. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Helene Planquelle. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Stillo Noir. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
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Selections from Farm Country: GarGar2 Festival in Penelles, Spain.

Selections from Farm Country: GarGar2 Festival in Penelles, Spain.

A well branded cultural initiative brings for the second edition a festival of art, music, craft beer, food trucks, workshops to the village of Penelles in Spain, including 900 square meters of murals in this town with farmer roots and low one story buildings.

It has become almost a formula for cities and municipalities to inject a youthful culture and energy into an area – as you may expect, it is about striking a balance and treating all of your artists well and creating a mixture of events and opportunities for the people to engage with the scene. Even when the population of your Catalonian town is a little less than 500 people.

Fonoll Mas. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

GarGar2 just happened in May with about 30 artists displaying public art in disciplines that touch on almost all of the currently used styles on the street; aerosol, wild style, figurative, illustration, neo-realism, photorealist, commercially slick, folk heroism, calligraphy, text based, pop art, abstract optics, political commentary, brush paint, stencil, craft, crochet, primitive sculpture… Organizers have studied the websites and social postings and surveyed closely what is happening in the mural/Street Art scene and are presenting a cross-section of at least one example of every category.

Sebastien Waknine. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

The somewhat arid agricultural community is spread out over many small roads and fields of wheat, rye, and corn. Old buildings are used for small art exhibitions and music venues – with many of the performing solo artists and ensembles playing a familiar mix of folk, jazz, afrocarribean, and electronic genres that merge local with international tastes.

It is a polished presentation meant to draw attention to the town, and we are thankful to photographer Lluis Olive Bulbena for capturing some of the images from this year’s festival. Following it is a video from last years’ GarGar.

Sebastien Waknine. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Sebastien Waknine. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

BYG. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Draw . Contra. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Draw . Contra. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Draw . Contra. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Asu Calligraphy. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Miquel Wert. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Miquel Wert. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Draw . Contra. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Ryan Smeeton. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Ryan Smeeton. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Paella. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Paella. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Zeso WS. Detail. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Zeso WS. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Jofre Works. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

TV Boy. GarGar Festival. Penelles, Spain. May 2017. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

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Bifido, Don Quixote and Sheep on Cell Phones at GarGar Festival

Bifido, Don Quixote and Sheep on Cell Phones at GarGar Festival

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Cervantes inspired this new wheat-pasted scene by Italy’s Bifido at the Gar Gar Festival in Panelles, Spain. His new interpretation of a metaphor is drawn from the scene in chapter 8 where Don Quixote and his sidekick servant Sancho are riding their horses up the road and see two clouds ahead of them. Quixote’s wild imagination mistakes them for dual great armies on the edge of war with one another and he describes them aloud in detail based on the forms he sees in the dust.

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

Sancho warns him that those shapes that he sees are simply dust clouds from herds of sheep and not to be afraid. But of course the macho testosterone meathead Quixote cannot wait to go to war and gallops in swinging his big sword, later to discover he has slaughtered a number of sheep and that a couple of nearby Shepherds are angry at him. They throw stones at the buffoon and break a lot of his teeth. Rather than admit he was wrong he tells Sancho that they had actually been armies but sorcerers has transformed them into sheep. Right.

So that worked out really well.

Later, there is a very detailed vomiting scene. No kidding.

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

Here the sheep are played by people all around us right now, cradling their electronic devices in hands, sort of oblivious to the world around them. He says the kid with the sword is fighting “against the contemporary man who spend a lot of time with his smartphone like a sheep.”

Truly, by now, it is an army. But who does the kid represent in this case? We’re not sure.

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

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Bifido for Gar Gar Festival. Panelles, Spain. May 2016. (photo © Bali Green Agency)

 

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