artist from Alicante Anthony MarestUrban painting, scattered around buildings around the world, has left its mark on our day. neighborhood of Albuferetaespecially outside the pharmacy on Villajoyosa Street, Next to the Vistamar building known as El barco.
Interested in architecture art deco and old buildings International creative born in Villena he had long wanted to intervene in this pharmacy, which he stated, booth where flats are sold The building, designed by architect Juan Guardiola, built in 1963 and belongs to Levantine Rationalism.
“I was very much in love with that space because of its architecture and characteristic roof. – in the form of a wave with triangular crests – and when I fall in love with something, I don’t stop,” Marest admits, adding that every time he passed by this place: “I had an insect and I had to intervene to give it a new look. I found out that this pharmacy belonged to a friend of mine and I couldn’t believe it, but like all the projects and things that came my way in my time, I think nothing was a coincidence and we were talking. possibility of give it a change To the Albufereta pharmacy, feeding the entire neighborhood for more than forty years.
Intervention was open to him, but days ago he had been wandering around the neighborhood talking to neighbors and the owner and SOS Albufereta platform, who had long sought improvement in the face of the neighborhood’s deterioration. thought the pharmacy was winking at their demands and “Help your voice be heard a little more.”
“We decided to paint the wave-shaped ceiling blue.something that goes very well with this structure, reminiscent of our sea, the Mediterranean” points to the artist painting the inside of the roof a strong yellow, and the old dull yellow of the façade was replaced with granite. black and white diagonal lines and turquoise blue on the establishment sign installed at the bottom and at the top.
Marest and his team worked “with the breeze and the sun” for four days, making it a “very satisfying” project for him that he hoped would help draw attention to the “abandonment” he presented in Albufereta. It will be one of the few neighborhoods in Alicante that can boast of having a building painted by this artist. He has about two hundred works painted on five continents.the perfect Mediterranean and where he imprinted his seal on Alicante.
In Alicante, the design of the cabins on the San Juan beach, which was delayed by the City Council, is still pending. He completed his intervention at The Strat casino in Las Vegas a few months ago, and an artistic residence awaits him this quarter at the PAMM museum in Miami, where he plans to paint a 9,000-square-foot mural, where he will stay until December.