Seville | Eyes on the Streets

Hannging on walls in Seville. by Adolfo Arenas Alonso. Scenes in run down rooms with peeling wallpaper. Once grand but now not so much. Religious icons and figures in paintings and sculptures look down on the human characters. Characters that either impossibly skinny or overweight. Crosses on the walls. Indolent. Slovenly. A macabre sense of place and time verging on the profane.

below: The Matador and the Insolents

below: Ars Amandi, The Dreamers (Ars Amandi is Latin, ‘The art of loving’)

drawing, graphite on paper, by Adolfo Arenas Alonso as street art on a Seville street

below: Volaveront (Latin, translates to “They will fly). The Hall

below: Verba Volant (The words fly) and Le Grand Stiletto

two drawings, both graphite on paper, by Adolfo Arenas Alonso as street art on a Seville street

below: Sacrum (Sacred)

below: Scripta Manent (Texts remain)

In Seville’s Poligono de San Pablo neighbourhood there is a growing number of murals on the ends of the midrise buildings that in the area. Since 2010, the group Arte Para Todos has organized the painting of most of these murals.

below: LEFT: “Younger Hands” by Josh Sarantitis.
RIGHT: “Planeta Tierra” by Luis Alberto López Cruz

below: A closer look at the mural on the left, a young child pushes a wheel barrow.

close up look at mural of child with a wheel barrow overflowing with things

below: And next, a closer look at the faces and abstractions in “Planeta Terra” – a horse, pink faces, flowers, and leaves.

behind a few small trees, a large mural called Planeta Terra, in Seville Spain, a horse head, a pink face, and other abstract colours and shapes

below: “Flemenca” dancer by Maya Angelon, Verónica Werckmeister, and Cristina Werckmeister, painted early in February 2023. The words were taken from two sources – a song and a poem. They say “NOW you understand just why my head’s not bowed – it’s in the CLICK of my heels and the BEND of my hair, the palm of my hand, the need of my care, ’cause I’m a PHENOMENALLY phenomenal WOMAN, that’s me.”

mural on the side of a residential building, multi storey, flamenco dancer, woman, in long red dress with black sleeves, text beside the dancer

below: Blue Earth map on Plaza Adoracion de Los Pastores. “Will tomorrow’s world be free?”. Signed INO, Wang Lu, Fl Vincent, Art For All 2010.

dark blue wall, with painting of the Earth as seen from space with Europe in the center, street sign says Plaza Adoracion de los Pastores,

below: A South American themed “Inca Dreams”

mural with kids playing in front of a gold, orange, and yellow wall with incan and south american symbols

below: Sleeping baby, “El niño” by Elninodelaspinturas, painted February 2023.

Large mural of a baby sleeping with pacifier, dummy, in its mouth

below: Two large murals and a green wall adorn the buildings.

Residential buildings with murals on them, 2 large murals, and one large wall of green. One of the murals is a man's portrait

below: A man divided, a man in two styles, a man painted by 310 Squad and given the title “Communist”. 310 Squad is a Russian artist, Stepan Krasnov.

below: All together in a banana-man boat, sailing through the water with the snakes and fishes in an imaginative creation by Nelson Roman. “El Cacique Banana y sus Guerreros” (The Chief Banana and his Warriors).

below: Yellow dots make the man – with a melting chin? Is he crying horizontal tears? The piece is titled “La Mirada Ilorona” (translates to the weeping look or the maudlin look) and it was also painted by 310 Squad.

with street sign saying Gallega de la Monde, street art mural of a man painted in dots by 310 crew. Yellow dots for skin, blue dots for eyes, white stripes for tracks of tears

below: Close by the weeping man, is another mural in yellow

part of 2 murals on 2 adjacent buildings, one is a portrait of a man with a large tree in front of it

below: “The Yellow Soldier” by Ukrainian artist Interesni Kazki (aka Aleksei Bordusov)

All in yellows, a mural by Aleksei Bordsov

below: “Agua Fértil” by Ivan Fiallos, rain falls into the water.

mural by Ivan Faillos on the side of a building in Seville Spain, a cloud is raining on a body of water. Some sort of creature lies at the bottom of the water

below: This is what lies under the water, a man on his back with his knees pointed upwards. A parrot sits on his knees while a dead? bird lies on his stomach.

part of a mural, a man lying on his back underwater with a parrot on his knee

below: She carries the city in a basket on her head as she wades past the ships and boats in a mural by Katie Yamasaki. The title is “Dedicado a la Infancia” (Dedicated to Childhood)

mural on the side of a building, a woman carries a basket with the city inside it