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Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Part III – Miss Van Brings Her Ladies

Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Part III – Miss Van Brings Her Ladies

More hippy chic and free-wheeling than you may remember, Miss Van brings her buxom, plump, yet oddly drowsy beauties to the Avant Garde festival in Spain. Evermore stylized and romantic, her feathered and festooned ladies have always had a mysterious sensuality since you first began seeing them on the street over a decade ago. Now as their dandy evolution swoons them to something closer to hyperreal, we may be seeing a merging with aesthetics of AI and the smoothly moving robotics of today’s science realm.

Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)

The raven-haired Toulousean street artist/muralist/painter brings here ‘Las Gitanas’ as the final of this three-chapter Tudela tome, a warmly languid femininity that washes over you, bringing you closer than you had imagined to the future. With June’s mulberry bruised skies above the rusted mountain range behind them, these pursed-lipped adventurers are given an added dimension of surreality from the photo-framing by gifted photographer Fer Alcala in these shots for Avant Garde Tudela 2020.

Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Miss Van. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
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Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Part II- Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon.

Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Part II- Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon.

Jeff McCreight crosses the rubicon with this allegory of summer joy at Avant Garde Tudela 2020. The American painter brings these two jumping boys to the river to cool off just as the heat of July is arriving to cook us all.

Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)

When it comes to street art and murals, as you know, context is everything and this spot at Paseo del Castillo is the environment that frames your childhood dreams, and hopefully, one many child will yet enjoy.

Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Jeff McCreight AKA Ru8icon. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
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Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Part I – Mina Hamada

Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Part I – Mina Hamada

Japan’s Mina Hamada has just completed her mural for the 2020 edition of Avant Garde Tudela in Spain. Curated by artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada and organized by Tudela-Cultura, the northern Spanish city has been home to a number of murals in the last decade or so from names most street art fans will recognize, and despite being in the middle of Covid-19 lockdown and gradual stages of liberation, this show finds no excuse to stop.

Mina Hamada. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)

“Betting on culture is always risky, even more nowadays,” say organizers, but the results are solid. Three new medium and large scale murals my Hamada, Miss Van, and Jeff McCreight were added to the twenty-one brought in the previous edition of the festival.

Mina Hamada. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)

Here we see that Hamada’s universe of shapes and color call out the natural world and environmental elements. Flora and plant life react to the stimuli of wind and water, with Mina interpreting her relationship with them all.

Mina Hamada. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Mina Hamada. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
Mina Hamada. Avant Garde Tudela 2020. Tudela, Spain. June 2020. (photo © Fer Alcala)
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