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Manolo Arranges la Mesa :  Jugs, Pots, Bowls for Parees Fest 2020

Manolo Arranges la Mesa : Jugs, Pots, Bowls for Parees Fest 2020

Some people paint pottery and china as a part of their trade. Manolo Mesa paints it as part of his mural here in Oviedo, Spain for Parees Festival.

Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)

The Andalusian artist may have begun with graffiti on the street as the century turned but he moved to portraiture, canvasses, and large walls; a spiritual traveler in search of the contemporary. Now he is gently cradling this newer fascination and rather surprisingly setting the public mesa with his decorative vessels, each becoming more ornate.

Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)

A trained fine artist at University of Fine Arts in Seville, this Andalusian tells us about his fixation with jugs, pots, and bowls as vehicles and storage.

“Facing these inert objects, meditating on their inherent beauty and spending an eternity devoted to their placid observation, I’m waiting to perceive that meaning that resides in them – as an autonomous way of being.”

Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)
Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)
Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manolo Mesa. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)
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‘El Nolas’ Diagrams the Modern Primitive at Parees Fest in Oviedo

‘El Nolas’ Diagrams the Modern Primitive at Parees Fest in Oviedo

Modern primitive expressionist Manuel García Fernández AKA ‘El Nolas’ was born in the mid-90s here in Oviedo, Spain. Now his autobiographical mixed-technique perspective is taking over some large public walls here for the Parees Festival 2020, its fourth edition.

Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)

It’s good to see a fresh take on the current state of urban interventions; even as it recalls more formal studio practices of contemporary artists that you have seen in the last decades. In retrospect, this is the path that a lot of Street Art has often followed; name checking the past masters in galleries/museums and updating them to this moment on the street.

Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)
Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)
Manu García. Parees Fest 2020. (photo © Mira Hacia Atras)
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Arantxa Recio Parra in Oviedo for Parees Fest 2020

Arantxa Recio Parra in Oviedo for Parees Fest 2020

With a mural that she says is inspired by traditional Asturian tales Arantxa Recio Parra employs additive and reductive 2-D shape painting strategies in public space. With painting technique that may recall crisp illustration and advertising styles of the 1950s and 60s, her new work stretches buoyantly along this long expanse in Oviedo, a town in northwest Spain between the Cantabrian Mountains and the Bay of Biscay.

Arantxa Recio Parra Parees Fest 2020.(photo @ Mira Hacia Atras)

Almost paper cut outs in appearance, these bright forms imply both space and spatial relationships, re-drawing a public street and your relationship to it.

Arantxa Recio Parra Parees Fest 2020.(photo @ Mira Hacia Atras)

Born in Zaragoza the multidisciplinary artist joins the Parees festival this year with her style that is commercially popular at the moment; bright, simplified, and just quirky enough to capture the publics’attention. The past few years her illustrative style has landed her on walls in Mexico, Argentina, Italy, Austria, Scotland, and Croatia.

Arantxa Recio Parra Parees Fest 2020.(photo @ Mira Hacia Atras)
Arantxa Recio Parra (@harsa_pati). Parees Fest 2020. (photo @ Fer Alcala)
Arantxa Recio Parra (@harsa_pati). Parees Fest 2020. (photo @ Fer Alcala)
Arantxa Recio Parra (@harsa_pati). Parees Fest 2020. (photo @ Fer Alcala)
Arantxa Recio Parra (@harsa_pati). Parees Fest 2020. (photo @ Fer Alcala)
Arantxa Recio Parra (@harsa_pati). Parees Fest 2020. (photo @ Fer Alcala)
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