Although the pandemic has in fact cancelled most of the events, the Parees festival in Oviedo took place regularly this year.

It is a cultural, social and artistic event that involves citizens and artists to offer the city a new look through its walls. From September 7 to 13, 2020, Oviedo and its streets are filled with color.

The walls tell the story of their cities and build the symbolic identity of its inhabitants, hence the importance of restoring the pieces made in Oviedo during the muralist movement of the 80s.

This year’s edition was attended by four artists, all Spanish, creating works of art inspired by local themes under the artistic direction of Raposu Roxu.

Harsa Pati in art Arantxa Recio, was able to transform a fairy tale of the local writer and narrator Milio’l del Nido into a work of art.
The artwork is on the wall of the public school Germán Fernández Ramos, 50 meters long, is the canvas of a fairy tale drawn on false appearances where nothing is as it really appears.

Street artist Lidia Cao also dedicated her artwork to a local writer Dolores Medio. The work combines the writer’s literary work and her status as a woman, claiming gender equality, the woman was a victim of censorship in those years. Precisely for this reason, it portrays the writer intent on doing her work, but with two vultures watching her back.

Manolo Mesa has instead created an artwork that pays homage to the abandoned crockery factory in San Claudio. To create the Mesa artwork, the Parees team launched an open call on social media asking locals to take pictures of their San Claudio pieces (plates, teapots, trays, cups) while telling the stories behind those collections.
The artist visited some of the neighbors’ houses to meet them in person and take some photos of the ceramic compositions.

Finally, local artist Manu García painted his first outdoor wall on the Campus of El Milán College. The work is a tribute to the “fiestas de prao”, a form of very popular local summer festivities.