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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis painting\nbelongs to \u201ctrompel’oeil\u201d which means that it is a pictorial technique that\nbelongs to Conchi Alvarez. It was made in 2013, is located in Barriada Tres\nBanderas and it measures 80 square meters. The artist intended the painting to\nbe an interactive experience between residents from the block and people\npassing by. This painting was made with some special materials brought from\nHolland which are made to last at least 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conchi Alvarez is\na well-known artist who works in the STOA art gallery and has also published a\nbook about the mural and its creation. The living artist was awarded \n\u201cEsteponera del a\u00f1o\u201d (Estepona person of the year)in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In our mind, this\npainting shows how we behave in normal life in a colourful way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we extrapolate\nthis situation to these days it could show us life in confinement because of\nthe virus.Our lives have changed and we have to stay inside these four walls\nfor a period of time and deal with it for the sake of our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this paint\nthe artist managed to capture the atmosphere of the day-to-day life in a\nneighbourhood, the idea of the \u201ctrain train quotidian\u201d according to French\npeople. We can imagine that this is an ordinary building in an ordinary\nneighbourhood in many different places in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first\nglance, it seems strange that everybody is on their balconies but we think they\nare just enjoying a stunning summer day. Looking carefully, we can see that the\nelder man is Juan \u201cthe cobbler\u201d, who is well-known in this neighbourhood.\nSupposedly he is taking care of his young granddaughter. From our point of view\nthe two men who are on the second floor are speaking to somebody who is in the\nstreet. They might be talking about shopping with their mother. On the other\nhand, in the attic it looks as if the young girl has caught the moon between\nher little hands, or maybe, the world. In our humble opinion we think that the\nartist has managed to capture the impression that the girl has the world in her\nhands, her future and her own story yet to be written. We would like to point\nout that in the ground floor we can see in roman numerals the year 2013, the\nyear of the inauguration. If you look closely, you can see one column inside\nthe building. This gives the impression that the structure is a mosque.\nFinally, outside the building there are two people, a lady and her son, both in\nred. They are, maybe, waiting for somebody. As far as we are concerned, this\nlittle boy knows a lot of local stories told to him by his father and\ngrandfather. In the future this little boy is going to be the next narrator\nabout the stories of his neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point\nwe have the impression that if we want we can go inside the building; in other\nwords, this is a perfect example of a \u201ctrompe l\u2019oeil\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis painting\nis undoubtedly thought-provoking. For many viewers it depicts ordinary people\nliving ordinary lives, but is that what the painter wanted to express?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We find this a moving piece of art, especially now because we are all living on lockdown. Our personal impression when we first looked at it was as if we were in a trance where confusion was the first ingredient. We saw people in that wall who were experiencing everything but freedom. They were experiencing subordination, and maybe repression, but we also witnessed a peaceful home, safety, self-esteem and even more liberty than ever. The artist could have wanted to portray the real and meaningful emotions lived hidden in a random neighbourhood where only its habitants\u2019 masks could be seen. Maybe she wanted to send a message to all of us to make us stop for a while and look into each other\u00b4s feelings. We couldn\u00b4t put into words how we feel about it, but what we are certain about is that this masterpiece by Conchi \u00c1lvarez represents ordinary people living extraordinary lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD PEOPLE ( GISELA PINATTI, M\u00aa ISABEL P\u00c9REZ MART\u00cdN,\nCAROLINA RODR\u00cdGUEZ CALLAU, ANDREA ALVEAR AGUILAR, JASON ANDR\u00c9S OSPINA TABARES-\n1\u00baA)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a mural where you can see reflected the experience of a neighbourhood through a balcony, viewed from different perspectives, filling the street with colour and symbolism. The image shows a woman with her son on the first floor, in her house outside with the door open. On the second floor there is a grandfather on the balcony and the girl sitting down covers her face from the sun. The shadow has a pale pink colour which gives depth to the drawing, as well as the yellow light in the background inside the first floor. The artist was inspired by the daily life of the residents of the famous neighbourhood called \u00a8Tres Banderas\u00a8. She wanted to show in this picture the quiet life that families have always enjoyed outdoors, thanks to the good weather in the city of Estepona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD PEOPLE (JUAN CARLOS V\u00cdLCHEZ HERN\u00c1NDEZ\/ JUAN VIT S\u00c1NCHEZ \u2013 1\u00baB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This mural was painted by Conchi \u00c1lvarez, a history teacher, who now owns an art gallery because she\u2019s also a painter. The mural was made in one of the buildings of a humble neighbourhood, over a completely empty white wall. The artist recreated a real space full of life, with plants and balconies from where the neighbours look out to. Although the mural was painted in 2013, nowadays, the people in the balconies have a special meaning, because, due to the pandemic, it is almost our only contact with life outside. The characters that appear in the mural don\u2019t live in the building, except for the old man on the first floor, who is a well-known shoemaker. The woman on the third floor, who is waving, doesn\u2019t exist in real life, she\u2019s imagined. The rest of characters are portraits of the artist\u2019s family and the woman at the entrance is a self-portrait of the painter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LA CASA DE LA BUENA GENTE de Conchi \u00c1lvarez. C\/Tres Banderas. The house of the good people (Ana Neiva Mac\u00edas Romero, Pilar M\u00e1rquez D\u00edaz, Emilia Rodrigo Ortiz, Santiago Ruiz Mu\u00f1oz …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,39,27,24,30,26,28,25,33,37,31,36,38,35,34],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria","tag-anglais","tag-artista","tag-english","tag-estepona","tag-francais","tag-frances","tag-french","tag-ingles","tag-mural","tag-oeil","tag-painting","tag-peinture","tag-pintor","tag-pintura","tag-trompe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.eoiestepona.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210428_111040-copia.jpg\")
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