MURAL’H by Kwets and Contorno Urbano
18/03/2016.
[BCN] Spain
metalocus, BRANLY ERNESTO PÉREZ
metalocus, BRANLY ERNESTO PÉREZ
In May 2015, the urban artist, Kwets, launched the MURAL’H project promoted by the Contorno Urbano association, with an enormous intervention that transformed the Avenida Isabel la Catatólica de l'Hospitalet del Llobregat tunnel. It took 12 weeks to cover the 1000 sqm grey wall, used 1250 cans of MTN 94, and was sponsored by Mémora group and Hune, in addition to Montana Colors.
Description of the project by Contorno Urbano
The gigantic piece’s content represents the migratory birds that fly over L'Hospitalet every year, and serves as a metaphor that refers to the thousands of immigrants the city hosts and is capable of integrating each year. Furthermore, the tunnel is one of the few routes that connects the north and south of the municipality, and is used by hundreds of people daily.
A project with this much social importance deserves a high stature follow up, so Montana Colors had to contact Edgar Lledó to direct this documentary that explains the context, the process, and results of a large part of the work that was put into this monumental intervention. The first MURAL’H initiative; a project based on social integration and urban planning that’s attempting to span across all the neighborhoods of L'Hospitalet in order to transform the city.
Kwets starts painting in the year 2000. Since then he works very close with some non profit cultural associations and local art projects. He works as professional muralist since 2010 and participates in a lot of international graffiti festivals like Meeting of Styles and Walls Talks.
Kwets1 merges graffiti and abstract languages in his work. Their experience bring him to use textures and projections in his murals. Currently he works also as a cultural project manager and a comissar for numerous street art shows and festivals.