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Pablo Spain, Collective Democracy, accompanied by the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, and the deputy leadership of the festival La Mar de Músicas, José Luis Cegarra, presented this morning a catalog that includes the interventions that the group made in the past festival dedicated to Morocco, with the insertion of messages in Arabic on the streets of Cartagena.
Top with phrases like those below, All Power to the people, politics is on the street, freedom should be for everyone or for nobody, I debate the Collective Democracy installing these slogans from writers, philosophers and political and social movements twentieth century in ten billboards, bus shelters and advertising panels located throughout the city.
These words were once expressed by Garibaldi, Bakunin, Lenin, Che Guevara, Mao, Camus or JÃ ¼ nger broke into the urban space and advertising, but written in Arabic, creating confusion and even outrage, and now published in the catalog of that 500 copies have been published aimed at the media, arts centers and critics.
The collective work of deepening democracy in social and political issues of topical interest, which led last summer a rich debate in Cartagena, a city where living groups from different backgrounds and cultures.
Precisely the confusion gave way to fear the Arab world, prompting many calls from citizens to the City suggesting possible attacks or insults, and even billboards workers refused to mount the posters for fear of being identified with terrorism.
Democracy is made up of collective and Ivan Lopez Pablo Spain, renowned artists who have taken their interventions around the world and work at the XV edition of La Mar de Músicas, became the outskirts of Cartagena and access to a gigantic work of art open to citizens of all backgrounds, highlighted Rosario Montero.
In this publication, the first catalog that is published on this group, you can also see part of other interventions that both artists have done throughout his career.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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