new location walk “Starlight”, tribute City of Alicante to movie stars. From the port to the Teatro Manager. In 2015, Alicante City Council, together with the Port Authority, created the promenade around the port, paying tribute to the actors and actresses. Terele Pávez, Antonia Sanjuán, Fernando Guillén Cuervo or Emilio Gutiérrez Cava With the installation of cast metal sculptures that take the form of the chairs of the Esplanade’s iconic promenade. Now, seven years later, Alicante City Council plans to move the project to a more cultural and urban area: the Teatro Principal surroundings.
The Board of Directors plans to approve this Tuesday the technical memory of urban furniture design based on the traditional chair of the Esplanade, which is proposed to be located around the Alicante Main Theatre. The project was the work of architects Isaac Peral and David Bisquert. The current project, for now, five glossy aluminum seating unitsbeside memorial plaquesbesides the production resin model allowing reproduction of at least sixty cast chairs. this the initial cost is approximately 46,000 euros (including VAT).
The idea aims to continue the initiative, where an idea competition was held to promote the Alicante Film Festival, sponsored by the City Council, the Port Authority, the College of Architects and the Alicante Film Festival. The supported idea was: return to an identity element of Alicante culture as a reference to the movie seatIt turns the final object into art, personalized by an artist for each actor or actress.
Each edition was intended to make a personalized cast metal sculpture by different famous artists for each actor or actress. The reproduction sculpture was used as urban furniture so that “every actor or actor honored in the city was given a place, reinforcing Alicante’s identity and introducing art into the public sphere”. The first chairs were placed in 2015, two years after the initiative was launched. Nothing remains of that performance today.
Now, seven years after the project saw the light, wording of the new municipal initiative aims to reclaim that idea, but especially with changes in location. “It becomes an element of standardized street furniture.Celebrating the Alicante Film Festival every year, a certain number of seats are produced according to the honored artists, and this serves to use the public as a seat by forming groups that improve neighborhood relations in the theater environment.
According to the new project, the name of the honored actor or actress will be engraved on the back of the chair, both on the front and back, cast from bright polished aluminum and attached with a plaque with the date of the event. and installation. On that plate (designed in the shape of a star as a metaphor for movie stars) the name of the actor or actress to whom the chair is allocated will be engraved. Like this, “The people of Alicante give the movie star a place in their city as a symbol of recognition, while at the same time enjoying its use as street furniture.“According to the project, which provided for the construction and location of fifteen chairs, which are expected to be installed in three years.