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Catalog The book that never shuts the agency has made Murcia F33 for the festival La Mar de Músicas connection with the Democracy Collective artistic intervention in the streets of Cartagena, last year's festival, with the inclusion of Arabic on billboards, marquees and billboards, has won the Bronze Lion at Cannes Lions Festival, one of the most prestigious advertising festival in the international arena.
It involves advertising agencies worldwide, presenting their creative pieces in television, print, radio, outdoor advertising, interactive advertising and direct marketing.
Created debate.
It was one of his proposals and they succeeded.
Top with phrases like those below, All Power to the people, politics is on the street, Freedom must be for all or none, the Collective Democracy intervened in the streets of Cartagena, during the celebration of the fifteenth edition of The Sea of music, especially Morocco, installing these phrases and slogans from writers, philosophers and political and social movements of the twentieth century in ten billboards, bus shelters and advertising panels located in various parts of the city.
These words that once were expressed at the time by Garibaldi, Bakunin, Lenin, Che Guevera, Mao, Camus or JÃ ¼ nger broke into the urban space and advertising, but written in Arabic.
The confusion over the meaning, the outrage at the lack of understanding, or the wink made to the large Arab community located in the city of Cartagena marked this intervention remembered today with the publication of the catalog that contains all that these days could be seen the port city.
Within the schedule of 2009 festival in Morocco was particularly significant Special intervention for this group of artists.
His work, which delved into social and political issues of topical interest, presents a rich debate in Cartagena, a city where living groups from different backgrounds and cultures.
The use of Arabic text in his works of public art got one of the purposes of any work of art worthy of the name: to generate debate.
And is that fear the Arab world that different historical events has brought to Western society at this time resulted in Cartagena with calls from citizens inquiring the City of Cartagena attacks or insults of the enigmatic signs.
Outrage over the foreign language.
Billboards workers refused to mount the posters for fear of being identified with terrorism.
Police asked the artists dating translation if it contains elements destabilizing the social order ...
Fear of a language is not understood clearly not ...
Nor do many people do not understand in English and feel no alarm ...
Fear or nervousness which represents Arab culture, yes.
The prestige that supports these two artists, Pablo Spain and Ivan Lopez, who make up Democracy, is well cemented in the world of art by notable interventions around the world.
With this intervention, and thanks to La Mar de Músicas, the streets of downtown, the suburbs and the disclosures of Cartagena became a huge work of art open to citizens of all backgrounds.
In this publication, the first catalog that has been made to this group, you can see also part of other interventions that the two artists have done throughout his career.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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