The imaginative intervention by the artistic duo Los Bravú on the façade of the Palacio de la Música in Madrid is an invitation to stop and observe in the middle of Gran Vía, one of the busiest and most emblematic streets in Spain.
The work, which is part of an initiative by the Montemadrid Foundation to unite two cultural projects: La Casa Encendida and the Palacio de la Música, is more than 30 metres wide and almost 5 metres high. Inspired by the typical tiles of the capital, the result is 2,842 white laser-printed tiles thanks to the collaboration of Clorofila Digital, Azulejos Peña, and the architect Arturo Garrido.
The ceramic mural, based on a drawing by Dea and Diego (Los Bravú) using different techniques and graphic styles ranging from watercolour to pen, pencil or felt-tip pen, aims to throw ideas, discourses and images at the spectator as if it were a cloud. It depicts scenes where contemporary objects, people and animals are represented in Renaissance style in a continuous space that interweaves a cultural puzzle, sometimes unconnected, in which to reflect the social, artistic and environmental concerns of our day-to-day life in a cosmopolitan city like Madrid.
