Negro de San Mateo

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Art · Subcategory: Urban art · Year: 2021 · Authors: Sea 162, Delfín Díaz

The façade of the CCA Gran Canaria. Centro de cultura audiovisual is transformed into a huge mural by the urban artist Sea 162. On a surface of 90 metres, a work is depicted that seeks to unite ancestral culture with the contemporary. The title it receives is Negro de San Mateo in allusion to a colour typical of the clay vein of the Gran Canaria municipality, now disappeared after the construction of a wall.

The work of Sea 162, whose real name is Alonso Murillo Gil, was carried out over four days in collaboration with the traditional ceramist Delfín Díaz, within the framework of the National Graffiti League held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the last weekend of October 2021.

In Sea 162 there is a search for the principles of nature and its relationship with the environment and the identity of the places where he creates his works.

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