The IV edition of the Spanish Parees Street Art Festival was launched today in Oviedo, Spain.
This year, and because of the situation we all are in right now, all the invited artists will be Spanish. Because of the same, all murals painted for the Parees Fest will be outdoors in order to avoid crowds and all activities normally associated with the festival cancelled.
Although there are many restrictions to what can be done under the current pandemic, the festival promises an exciting line-up that promises to lighten up the walls of the city. The participant artists are Manolo Mesa, Manu Garcia, Lidia Cao and Harsa Pati.
The artists
Born in Oviedo in 1994, Manu Garcia is a graduate in fine arts at the University of Salamanca, He later moved back to Oviedo where he currently works and lives.
Garcia defines his work as autobiographic, acting as a kind of journal that focuses on the world around him and the idea of play. Through his art he generates images and spaces that help him to relate to others and his own inner life.
Arantxa Recio Parra aka Harsa Pati (b. Zaragoza, 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked for years for a wide range of creative projects and brands. Her work is closely linked to contemporary illustration, with clear references to popular culture and illustration from the 50s and 60s.
She diversifies her work between collaborations with advertising agencies, publishers, exhibitions, and art festivals. Her works have appeared in many different areas (publishing, advertising, book covers, packaging, fashion, design, etc.
Manolo Mesa, born in Cadiz, Spain, graduated from Fine Arts and has since combined his pictorial practice in the street with his studio work.
His paintings constitutes a metaphor of life, of encounter and solitude. An iconography about the absurdity of existence that goes beyond the physical. His work talks about the relationship between human beings, everyday objects and nature.
Lidia Cao, born in Santiago de Compostela in 1997 is an Illustrator and college graduate from EASD Pablo Picasso in A Coruña. Since a young age she was interested in drawing, specially figures and faces, analyzing expressions, always wanting to communicate a lot with very little resources. Lidia Cao never attended private lessons and she considers herself mostly self-taught. According to the organizers, her piece at the Parees Fest this year will be inspired by the local writer Dolores Medio.
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.
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