Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Spain
Murals

The exhibition is a meeting place for mural artists from around the world – from West Africa to Europe, via Mexico and the United States – who have been invited to work on the walls of eleven temporary exhibition spaces.

The show starts with the most traditional, and anonymous, exponents of mural art – the women from the Coopérative Féminine de Djajibiné Gandega "Djida" (Mauritania), whose work contrasts strongly with the geometrical colour planes of the German artist Lothar Götz. The Olive Tree Patio houses Jerónimo Hagerman's ivy mural, which can be viewed from inside the building; this is offset by the street art or graffiti by two representatives of UTR Crew, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by Scope One from Singapore.

Sakarin Krue-On is showing Temple, a mural created with spots of white clay on a red ground, which also establishes a counterpoint to Hagerman's work in the sense that both artists update long-established mural traditions from their respective countries, Thailand and Mexico.