Galdós

Tribute to Benito Pérez Galdós, writer who coined the genre of the “Spanish realist novel” in the 19th Century, on the street that nowadays carries his name. An important figure for Bailén, as he wrote about these lands in his famous National Episodes (1843-1920).

Communicating pitchers

Located this mural in the Seville Street, we are shown the emblem of the figure of María Bellido and her broken pitcher, together with the use of ceramic containers since Roman times to achieve the balance of liquids contained in communicating vessels, is represented in this project. Atmospheric pressure and gravity are constant in each […]

Ceramics and education

This artistic piece reflects the experiences, coexistence and first-hand knowledge of some of the last pottery artisans of Bailén, linked to the intrinsic history of the wall where, in this case, the west façade of the Sacred Heart of Jesus School is located, where since the beginning of the last century, when the Daughters of […]

Bailen’s surrender

The General Castaños Square as the nerve center, social and meeting place of the city is the space chosen for this mural. The Casado del Alisal painting, a pictorial emblem of the municipality and reinterpreted based on the physical perception of color, represented in 2017 the bringing together of urban art and the social communication […]

Reforesting

This project by Doa Ocampo is located at the back of the Monument of the Battle of Bailén that is also located in the Palm Trees’ Promenade, which was born with desire to recover spaces through plant themes related to the environment where they are located. Five species are chosen: the olive tree, the wild […]

Forest of neurons

We find this work of art behind the Monument to the Battle of Bailén on the Palm Trees’ Promenade, we are shown the impenetrable neuronal forest that is so complex that there is not even a consensus on the number of different types of pyramidal cells that exist. This artistic intervention manages to recover the […]

Topo-graphies

Topography is the science that studies the set of principles and procedures that aim to graphically represent the Earth’s surface, with its shapes and details, essential in the “art of war”. This mural captured in the Museum of the Battle of Bailén, evokes the geographical reliefs of 1808, schematically showing us part of the battlefield […]

We are creation

Located in the surroundings of the Palm Trees’ Promenade, this mural doesn’t evoke that in the era of plastic and IT, pottery, the hallmark of Bailén, has been relegated to a secondary level. This mural transmits the physicochemical transformation processes of clay into ceramics, and tells the history of the cultures that have emerged around […]