{"id":2189,"date":"2020-04-22T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:32:07","slug":"reflejos-del-jardin-de-jose-fernandez-rios-parque-botanico-y-orquidario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/reflejos-del-jardin-de-jose-fernandez-rios-parque-botanico-y-orquidario\/","title":{"rendered":"REFLEJOS DEL JARD\u00cdN de Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez R\u00edos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

REFLEJOS DEL JARD\u00cdN de Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez R\u00edos. Parque Bot\u00e1nico y Orquidario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden reflections (Pepa Delgado Navarro- 4\u00baA)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a beautiful hyperrealistic mural. It is\none of the best inserted in the environment, it looks like a real part of the\nbuilding. It represents palm trees, bougainvilleas and balconies. This vertical\ngarden extends along seven blocks and this, together with the vegetation that\nalready exists around, makes a spectacular scene to enjoy and admire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garden reflections\n(Noelia P\u00e9rez Mart\u00edn \u2013 4\u00ba Semipresencial)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a realistic mural and very integrated into the environment. They are palm trees and bougainvilleas that look real. Everything fills the building with a splendid feeling of being in a garden. The murals are so real that they can go unnoticed. Every detail is painted with great care and realism. It is a corner full of plant life.It may not be the most striking but it is one of the best integrated into the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflejos del\njard\u00edn <\/strong>(Mar\u00eda Mercedes Gal\u00e1n, Gina Barros, In\u00e9s Arag\u00f3n, Denis Pacheco C1.2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A different <\/strong>\u2018garden<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The modern and rapidly growing city of Estepona, besides being well known as \u201cThe Garden of the Costa del Sol\u201d for its green\ncommitment in the old town and its surroundings, is currently becoming\ninternationally recognized for its wall murals. \u201cReflejos del Jard\u00edn\u201d\nis one of these wall paintings which, not only is considered one of the most\nimpressive ones, but also the most extensive in Spain. In fact, this amazing\ncomposition is divided asymmetrically in the space of seven buildings placed\nnext to Estepona\u00b4s Botanic Orchid Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This painting is by Jose Fern\u00e1ndez Rios (Orcera, Ja\u00e9n,\nApril 24, 1964) and depicts, in the style known as hyperrealism, a huge garden\nin which plants can be seen outdoors. Some of Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s artworks, including paintings and sculptures, can be admired not only in Estepona but also in Jaen’s\nstreets, roundabouts and promenades. Among the works carried out in Estepona,\napart from this one, \u201cD\u00eda de Pesca\u201d and \u201cRegando el Jard\u00edn\u201d are two of the most\nsignificant ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green on white: the art\nof mixing architecture with nature<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This gigantic painting, divided in 20 zones, is painted in\nbright and soft colours, and it gets its inspiration from the local flora that\ncan be found in the different parks of Estepona. It\nis easy to make out the outline of some palm trees, multicolored bougainvilleas\nand other plants, all of them looking as if they flourished from the buildings.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warm colors used by the painter make the murals appear\npart of the environment without attracting too much\nattention from the people who wander around. Nevertheless, the effects on the\nviewer can be purely emotional. Their luminosity, seen from a distance, not\nonly gives people a sense of peace and calm but also a sense of pride, encouraging them to take care of their own cities by preserving\ntheir nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The green colors of nature predominate and contrast in\nperfect harmony with the flower masses in which the red, pink, magenta, purple\nand yellow colors of the flowers and pots vibrate in\ninfinite nuances, providing a gift for walkers\u00b4senses. A painted Andalusian\nbalcony, which seems real at first sight, is where the artist reaches the\nperfection. It matches and plays with the thundering vegetation of the area,\npainted with a mastery and realism that will not\nleave anyone underwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A thought-provoking cultural legacy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This artwork is inserted into the green lung of Estepona:\n‘The Orchidarium’, a huge unique mural in which the artist’s objective was to\nextend the natural space to the surroundings,\nconfusing the painted vegetation with the one that exists in the area and thus\ncreating a larger open natural space. Undoubtedly, this mural has boosted the\nattraction to the Botanical Orchid Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we have mentioned before, Estepona has been named after its plant heritage as \u00abThe garden of the\nCosta del Sol\u00bb and this breathtaking painting contributes to grow that\nlegacy, integrating art, nature and architecture in a transversal way. This\ncultural and natural patrimony has given a name to Estepona\naround the world, breaking the seasonal trend of tourism and increasing the\nnumber of visitors it receives each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is essential to emphasize that the town has established\nitself in recent years as a vacation destination due to the variety of offerings it presents to tourists. Besides the traditional\noffer of sun and beach, the urban and cultural tourism proposal has been added\nto the project of Estepona as \u201cThe Garden of the Costa del Sol\u201d. This\ninitiative adds value to the downtown by remodeling a\nhundred streets and creating unique facilities such as the Botanical-Orchid\nPark or cultural proposals such as the Route of Artistic Murals, which includes\nthe one that concerns us, \u00abReflejos del Jard\u00edn\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An invaluable complement to the neighborhood<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We consider this particular art piece to be a sort of a\nstealth painting, due to the way that urbanism and art are mixed, simulating\nthat the real garden continues in the background along the fa\u00e7ades. And this\nparticularity makes this wall painting barely\nnoticeable by the citizens that wander around the neighborhood, which we think\nwas the artist\u00b4s intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, even though it can go unnoticed at first instance, as\nsoon as the walkers discover the paintings on the wall, the necessity of\nfinding the rest of the trees, flowers and pots\nawakens. That\u2019s the moment in which\nthe viewer realizes that he or she has been surrounded by a masterpiece and\nbegins to feel overwhelmed. The refined touch of the painter integrating his\nwork into the surroundings is amazing and totally\naccomplished. There is no doubt that this painting is more complex than it may\nseem at first glance. The colors, sizes and\nshapes of the natural elements had to be placed on the existing buildings in a\nway that suited them, avoiding any king of disturbance on the walls. And, to be\nhonest, it must be said that the final result is impressive: the white fa\u00e7ades are now covered with bright colors, bringing them to\nlife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole town should thank the artist, Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez, for his efforts. He once more showed he can deal with projects as enormous as this. A large wall painting has turned out to be the perfect complement to this neighborhood, making the downtown  green area even bigger. This is a real masterpiece that could perfectly stand the test of time with a little help from repainting and restoration efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFLECTIONS OF THE GARDEN (LEANDRA MIRA-\n3\u00baB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mural was painted in 2016 by Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez R\u00edos .The technique used is acrylic paint and it is of\nrealism type. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mural consists of a large painting with\ndetails such as an Andalusian balcony that at first glance seems real, is\nspread over seven buildings where you can see bougainvilleas, Palm trees and\nflower pots. It was painted to expand the green area of the Orchid House by the\nbuildings around, and to get the painted vegetation blended with the real one\nin the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From my point of\nview, it is one of the most beautiful realistic murals in Estepona. You cannot\nleave the village without appreciating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFLECTIONS OF THE GARDEN (ITZIAR POL-\n2\u00baC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mural represents a garden, with palm trees, bougainvilleas, windows and balconies. I chose it because it\u00b4s near my home and every time that I walk around, I always stop for a moment to look at the small details. The first time that I walked around it, I had to stop and look a couple of times to check if it some details were real or part of the mural. The style of the mural is \u201chyper-realist\u201d and the artist really got the effect he wanted.. There is a perfect fusion between the real buildings with his windows and terraces and the painting. It\u00b4s really impressive. The mural was finished in February of 2016 and the artist who painted it made other realist murals in Estepona, like \u201cD\u00eda de pesca\u201d o \u201cRegando el Jard\u00edn\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GARDEN REFLECTIONS\n(INMACULADA AGUILAR GUTI\u00c9RREZ, MAR\u00cdA DEL CARMEN ROM\u00c1N DEL R\u00cdO- 1\u00baB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mural is included in the project that the Town Hall of Estepona started in 2012. It has got a surface of 4200 square meters and it fills seven buildings around the Botanic Park and the Orchidarium. It is the biggest artistic mural of Spain with a very realistic picture with palms, flowers and plant pots. It is one of my favourite murals because the whole building looks like a real botanic park. This work was made by only one artist: Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez R\u00edos. He is a Spanish artist. He was born in Ja\u00e9n. His painting has got a hyper-realistic style. He has painted several more murals in Estepona: \u201cD\u00eda de pesca\u201d, \u201cNi\u00f1a regando\u201d, \u201cAtlantas\u201d, All of them stand out for the perfect blend with the surrounding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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