Yet another wonderful wall by Axel Void this time in collaboration with the equally talented Spanish artist Javier Sande.
Painted for Encuentros Interartísticos’ second edition and entitled “Matriz”/”Matrix”, the new mural shows the image of a typical scene in a small village. Void explains the mural as follow:
After being invited by the Antonio Gala Foundation in the city of Córdoba, Spain, I interacted with artists of various disciplines. The idea of working with one these artists to do a mural as part of the Mediocre series arose from this encounter. This artist is Javier Sande, whose work deals with the daily life of the small village he lived in all his life, Roo, in Galicia, Spain. I was interested in making public in a mural what this artist considers to be private and what he conceives with the objective of being presented in smaller scale. Something so routinary and concrete like the action in this image, his grandmother and his aunt sitting together, peeling potatoes, can translate to a general quotidian routine, with the intention of creating empathy. – Axel Void
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
