Last Thursday, November 16, the "Urban art days in prison, a metaphor that generates a social model", organized by the teacher Elena Villamarín (Drawing area), which took place in the Old Pavia Barracks Building in the Aranjuez Campus. The different speakers have spoken about a great diversity of topics from which the students of the Degree of Fine Arts and Double Degrees. The Professor Ruth Francia (area of ​​Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts) has talked about “New forms of participatory, collaborative and community art”; the Professor Francisco José Gómez (Drawing area)On “Current references of urban art, national and international” and, Professor Elena Villamarín, has reflected on a “Personal experience of art in prison. “Urban art in prison as a metaphor for the social”. They have also intervened two former students of the URJC and actually, urban artists: Raquel de la Coba and Juan Montes, describing his trajectory and making a sample of his work, accompanied by a reflection on the concepts they handle and techniques used in its execution.

The Conferences have also had a practical part through carrying out a painting workshop graffiti in charge of international urban artist JM Yes (Jesús Moreno), who has made numerous artistic residencies: in Bolivia and Portugal, as well as exhibitions in Mexico and Madrid, murals in Europe, America and Asia and has participated in a project In Santo Domingo. His work is based on making simple tangential geometric figures, giving special importance to color and visual balancel. The students have been able to attend this demonstration and participate in a collaborative mural practicing with painting in spray.

As a result, this theoretical and practical tour has served to reflect on the new urban areas and dynamics that are emerging in contemporary society, where public space offers the young population alternatives for communication and expression, without forgetting the youth excluded in prison, who also demands that the wall before his eyes become a space where he can be express y talk. Urban art is understood in this context as a metaphor that generates a social model of integration, “bringing a fragment of the street to the prison”. 

El mural It can be seen in the Old Pavía Barracks Building (Aranjuez Campus), across the patio (materials unloading area). 

From the Faculty of Arts and Humanities we want to congratulate the organization of the event.