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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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Osona Artimur Festival in Spain. First Edition / Part II

Osona Artimur Festival in Spain. First Edition / Part II

Prats de Lluçanès, Manlleu, Sant Julià de Vilatorta, Sant Bartomeu del Grau, and Alpens

Here we have more examples of city meeting rural, traditional meeting Stylez, countryside meeting contemporary, local pride meeting international flavor. In part II of our report from October/November’s Osona Artimur Festival, photographer and street art/mural art expert Fer Alcalá observes that putting together a wide-spread event like this is complicated and rewarding, somewhat like managing the United Nations General Assembly every September.

Wedo Goas. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)

“The fact is that looking for walls outside the big cities can be an alternative solution for artists and cultural managers due to the difficulties that can be found downtown Barcelona,” says Alcalá and colleague Laura Colomé in their description of the massive event. “The rules about architectural aesthetics, the shortage of legal walls and the strong rivalry make managing big events of this nature a very hard task to do.”

Wedo Goas. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)

Nonetheless, the community spirit and lust for communicating through art-in-the-streets show in the quality and range of works. The modern world may be awash with a sense of chaos, wonder, and mystery in ways we didn’t imagine; it’s precisely why we need to be outside talking about art with each other to contemplate and process the changes in the context of our collective history.

“Rural contexts become new places for researching, innovation, and promoting art,” they tell us. “It’s fair to say that Osona Artimur festival brings new horizons to art in the countryside of Catalunya and these five pioneer villages.”

Sergi Bastida. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)

Invited artists: Zoer, Ana Barriga, Satone, Nano4814, Luogo Comune, Isaac Cordal, Rosh,  Alberto Montes,  Jan Vallverdú, Marta Lapeña, Eloise Gillow
Artists selected by open call: Twee Muizen, Sergi Bastida, Wedo Goas
Artists working on participatory processes: Daniel Muñoz, Chu Doma,  Alessia Innocenti, Mateu Targa, Zosen

Sergi Bastida. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Sergi Bastida. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Mateu Targa. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Mateu Targa. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Mateu Targa. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Nano4814. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Nano4814. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Nano4814. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
ROSH. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
ROSH. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
ROSH. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
SatOne. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
SatOne. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
SatOne. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Twee Muizen. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Twee Muizen. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Twee Muizen. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Zoer. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Zoer. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Zoer. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Zosen. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Zosen. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Zosen. Osona Artimur Festival. B-Murals. Spain. (photo © Fer Alcala)
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