It’s not his first move to Miami, and it won’t be his last.. artist from Alicante Anthony Marestaccustomed to painting on large surfaces around the world three muralstwo are large in overall view, total More than 6,500 square meters In the trendy neighborhood of Miami, Wynwood Arts District, It is famous for the wonderful works of urban art that appear on the many walls of its buildings.
Marest from Alicante (Villena, 1982) painted during the last three months new murals titled the presence of yeastin two buildings longer than 12 floors It is separated by First Avenue in this neighborhood that has become a landmark in Miami. Street art to the new “Silicon Beach” which is in full swing and in transformation as so many graffiti artists and most of the tech companies have moved there.
Marest one in love with style art decoThe artist from Alicante is largely intertwined with the architecture of Miami, mediterranean revival or a Mediterranean touch as indicated by the curator and manager fran picazo About his internationally known works full of energy and burst of color and combining geometric and abstract elements. “Concepts are added to the loan equality, freedom and diversityand its treatment natural life and environmentIn the projection of the landscape as a pictorial genre taken to the city,” Picazo draws attention to the content of Marest’s works, where palm trees, sea or sky are never absent.
On this occasion, the artist as an innovation drew a human figure for the first time in one of the murals. It’s about a woman on a springboard. the sun in her hands, radiating light and symbolizing a new dawn, a new era. The work has to do with the slogan the future is woman (the future is female), which Marest considers important to include.
In Marest’s words, “Art exists to unite people and live together.in an equitable way, despite all differences, to a future that depends on the environment, the humanization of society and the intimacy of emotions. From an energetic now and a desire to live in the now, because the present should reflect the moment when it all began”.
There will also be murals permanent works of art, because it is protected by a special paint that keeps the works in perfect condition for twenty years. “They were created to coexist and be timeless, a fact that urban art requires maximum recognition, and even more so in a city where artists come to pay to paint their precious walls,” says Picazo.
digital work
Marest was also invited to the project during the fair week. art Basel Miami, a few days ago ten-minute animation digital work on the facade of the skyscraper Paramount Miami Worldcenter, 60 floors high. his job sunset in the city centerIt has been reproduced with brands such as Dolce & Gabbana and Tiffany’s, making it the biggest digital work of this year.
idyll with miami
Although he has worked in different cities in the USA and Europe, Miami has always been close to Antonyo Marest. He opened an exhibition in Madrid in 2020 with 50 works inspired by the legendary Sun Harbor Hotel in Miami from the 70s and 80s, while the previous year he painted the exterior of the hotel. Miami Spanish Cultural Center And as early as 2021, a 24-metre-tall tower of containers intervened in an architectural office complex in front of Spotify’s headquarters in the same Wynwood neighborhood.
His idyll with this city does not end there, as he will develop a city from February 2023. artist residence at the PAMM museum (Pérez Art Museum Miami) in this town and will perform three other large murals.