AZUL Y MAR, EMOCIONES LÍQUIDAS de Javier Infantes. C/Guadiaro.
Blue and Sea. Liquid Emotions. (Maria Luisa Sierra Filardi B1-B)
This mural is a work by local artist Javier Infantes and it is located on Guadiaro Street in Estepona. It was inaugurated in July 2014 and it was financed by the Mancomunidad of Municipios of the Costa del Sol.
It is made on wood and it was painted with acrylic paint, and that it is protected by a special resin for better conservation.
The artist has wanted to capture in a single color, and in its different chromatic ranges, the longing and melancholy that he feels for the sea, the water, the sky, the horizon, the light and all its reflections, of his native Estepona, due to living in New York since 2007.
It is a nice summary of part of the nature that Estepona offers us.
The mural is located on the facade of one of the buildings of the Conjunto Residencial Jardines del Carmen on Calle Guadiaro. It measures 60m.sq and was inaugurated in July 2014. This mural was financed by the association of municipalities of the western Costa del Sol and the Estepona City Council.
This work of art belongs to the local artist Javier Infantes. who was born in Estepona in 1978 and has lived in New York since 2007. When he lived in Spain, he worked as an art teacher as well as an interior decorative painter and muralist. Infantes’ paintings display impressive technical expertise and control as they leap off the canvas with brilliant color combinations and harmony. The author has exhibited his work in important galleries in New York and other parts of the world.
The painting was inspired by his longing for Estepona and it depicts the sea, water, blue sky, horizon, light and reflections that symbolise Estepona. It is made of wood, acrylic paint stains, fine glitter and is coated in a resin that protects it from the elements.
The painting is brightly coloured, and we can appreciate three different tones, at the top we have the shiny and lighter color tone, that symbolizes the starry sky in summer’s nights, in the center of the mural we can see the darker shade of blue which means the depth of the water and finally, in the bottom of the painting we will find a medium blue tone that tells us about the calm and wide sea of Estepona.
The artist takes us to feel the sea of Estepona in all its versions, giving us calm and serenity.