The devil, as they say, is in the details.
More street art from Malaga, and an update.
In between organizing four years’ worth of photos from our trips to Spain, I’ve been researching information about Malaga’s graffiti and street art scene. It turns out that the murals along the Guadalmedina riverbed, as shown in the photos that I posted yesterday, were not part of the Soho Malaga project as I’d originally thought. The Guadalmedina murals were created as part of a contest called Guadalmedina, The River That Unites Us (El río que nos une), which is in turn part of a larger urban renewal initiative to beautify Malaga’s old buildings and neighbourhoods through graffiti art.
The photos I’m posting today are of murals that were also created as part an urban renewal initiative, this one focused on transforming Malaga’s rundown port district into an arts and cultural centre. One of the highlights was the Urban Art in Soho Malaga (Malaga Arte Urbano Soho) project, also known as MAUS. In 2013, it commissioned internationally renowned street artists from around the world to come to Malaga and turn the streets into an open-air gallery. A second edition was held in 2015, and new works have been added since then.
Today, there are urban art initiatives in all 11 neighbourhoods of Malaga, with guidebooks and maps featuring the murals and artwork of each neighbourhood.
Here is a selection of photos from the Soho Malaga district that I took in January 2018.
