Explore Valencia's hidden Graffiti Art

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[{"address":"Plaça del Tossal","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":39.476155513079604,"longitude":-0.3801031999999971},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FINTRO_VLC.m4a?alt=media&token=9942ab45-976e-4759-b16e-8e99d358a901"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6613.jpg?alt=media&token=4bfa0ff9-c12f-447d-847e-b1d6d486dfe2"},{"type":"text","content":"# Valencia is the third largest city in Spain.\n## Just over 300 km from Madrid and Barcelona.\n## Valencia is a city with a lot of charm that offers many different travel possibilities.\n\n### Valencia is a very particular Mediterranean city. Its old river that crossed the city was transformed into a huge park; El Parque del Rio Turia, it is a decadent but at the same time modern city.\n\n### Walking through the city you can admire very modern architectural works such as those built by Santiago Calatrava, (The Oceanografic, The Agorà and The City of Arts and Sciences, the Aquarium and many more), as well as older abandoned and decadent buildings and architectural works of Liberty and Modernist style.\n### So you could spend a few days just admiring the architectural variety.\n\n### **Valencia has been proclaimed the best city in Europe to live in** due to its high quality of life, green mobility, most of the city is bikeable, low crime, lots of art, the sea and the warmth of the sun.\n\n### Apart from that we must remember that Valencia is also known for the **Fallas**, the **largest festive event in Europe** that brings together millions of people who come from all over the world to admire the **Fallas Art**.\n\n\n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_1957.JPG?alt=media&token=1b5d247d-b1b1-407e-bfc7-bab9cbbe76e8"},{"type":"text","content":"# Today I will guide you on street art tour.\n\n## In recent years the **city council of Valencia has been promoting street art**, seeing also the proliferation of many local artists.\n\n### Due to its more decadent parts Valencia offers street artists the possibility to paint their art practically anywhere.\n\n### Among the most famous at the international level, we can name **Escif** (the Spanish Bansky) **Julieta XLF**, **Vinz**, **Suma**, **David de Limón**, **Disneylexya**...\n\n\n### I hope you enjoy the art and the city.\n\n### **Let's go!**\n"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FINTRO_OK.mp4?alt=media&token=5323a0bc-682f-4d1d-9207-9dc3b91783f8"}]},{"address":"C/ de la Corona, 1","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":39.47771906308032,"longitude":-0.38092579999999376},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# CALLE CORONA JULIETA XLF\n\n## **Calle Corona** is a narrow street near the **Mossen Sorrell Market**, Museo de la Beneficia and **IVAM**, the **Valencian Institute of Modern Art**.\n### By the way if you have time go and visit it:\n### **Link below for more info**\n\n"},{"type":"link","content":"www.ivam.es/en"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FCALLE_CORONA.mp4?alt=media&token=f91ef155-9704-409f-9ebf-4c9074222707"},{"type":"text","content":"# The first thing that catches your attention as soon as you enter is the huge photograph of the **artist** **Luis Montolio** of **Olga Poliakoff**."},{"type":"text","content":"# **Who was Olga Poliakoff?**\n\n## **One of the most amazing and unusual women of Valencia**, was a choreographer named Olga Galicia Poliakoff, a **dancer** and **teacher of contemporary dance** who was the **muse of the Valencian underground** from the late 70's and 80's and much more...\n\n\n### If you are curious, you can watch the **documentary** of Olga Galicia Poliakoff. \"La mujer que nació en bata\", directed by Eva Vizcarra between 2010 and 2011, is a short film that portrays in an unbeatable way the atmosphere of the **bohemian night of the Valencia** of an era. \n\n### The piece begins with a fragment of The Little Prince, the famous work by Saint-Exupéry: \"All adults began as children, but few remember\". And that is what happened with Olga, because behind her image of a rebellious and wild woman, she hid a child. \n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_0542.JPG?alt=media&token=fc6f9db5-5205-407a-8ddc-0ab64dcd1c23"},{"type":"text","content":"# Another important work is the one by Julieta XLF.\n\n## We can find **Julieta XLF's works** in **Italy**, **Belgium**, **France**, **Indonesia**, **India**, **Spain**.....\n\n## Specialized in postgraffiti. Her designs are marked by a childish character, close to oriental art and her murals are usually starred by dolls that hide perplexity and sensitivity.\n\n### In her drawings we can observe the influence of oriental art such as Japanese kawaii and psychedelic pop.\n\n## Despite not having a direct message, Julieta XLF tries to convey hope and concepts such as vital balance. In addition, she also claims essential aspects such as color, nature or the joy of people, using organic shapes and color to create these concepts.\n\n### As **Belén García Pardo** says \"*Julieta's little girl is chameleonic, she can be a fairy or a caco, she can be alive or dead. They are her girls. Birds arise spontaneously from the hair of all of them because their dreams are reality, they dream of the transformation, the renovation, the evolution that the world around them needs. Their secret. Julieta's girls always keep a secret, discover it for yourself*\".\n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_2665.jpg?alt=media&token=21d4dd6d-d1ac-4bbd-ae89-f845e8a4dd86"},{"type":"link","content":"www.julietaxlf.com"}]},{"address":"Carrer de Baix","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":39.47757891308028,"longitude":-0.37946660000000243},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# Calle Baja. In the heart of the old town \"**El Carmen**\".\n\n## Here you can find non-touristy restaurants, and some small local stores.\n\n### As you can notice it is a street with decadent buildings and totally full of works of different artists.\n\n### **David de Limón**, **Camarón el Pistolero** and **Disneylexya**.\n\n### Let's talk a little bit about the last one\n"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FCALLE_BAJA_2.mp4?alt=media&token=2820827f-75c0-466b-9ec3-a5a4084b260d"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6508.jpg?alt=media&token=3d970d98-8414-4525-b602-3bbe18d1d3fa"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6504.jpg?alt=media&token=a046b4c9-39e6-4a95-ab59-4a6c33a93f1b"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6511.jpg?alt=media&token=d768e3be-2c70-41a4-a856-be1f38594533"},{"type":"text","content":"# Disneylexya.\n\n## **Disneylexya** is an artist of Chilean origin who has been living in Valencia for several years.\n\n### He combines several techniques in his murals using brushes and spray paint, which allows him to achieve great detail in his works.\n\n### Disneylexya's chromatic palette is always intense and his compositions integrate **fantastic** **universes** and **phantasmagoric** **beasts** that often approach the imaginary of **pre-Hispanic** and **indigenous** **art**.\n\n### From the formal point of view, his central theme is a concept he has called **CVI** (reverse visual colonization), which consists of taking European graphic elements, particularly from medieval miniatures, bestiaries and alchemical treatises, and mixing them with native elements from other cultures of the world (lines, color and geometries). \n\n## The result translates into confusion on the part of the viewer, who thinks he is seeing Latin American artistic representations (Inca or Aztec in general) and even elements of popular art from India, Africa, etc. have been identified, depending on the cultural and visual background of the viewer. \n\n### In order to develop it, CVI thought about the importation of images (mostly religious) from Europe to America and the forced cultural assimilation that the native peoples had to face in a passive and active way.\n\n### As he says: *I am personally interested in the active assimilation, because in this case the Native Americans incorporated, in the eyes of the colonists, the European sacred image apparently leaving aside \"their beliefs\", when what actually happened was a camouflage of the concept embodied in the image, because the American cultures often deposited the characteristics of their original deities in the figures of the invading religious cults in order to survive*.\n"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FDISNEYLEXYA.mp4?alt=media&token=13f9760e-f4ce-4402-aab8-065dd6e2c64e"},{"type":"link","content":"www.disneylexya.com"}]},{"address":"Portal de Valldigna","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":39.47763771308029,"longitude":-0.3788775999999894},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# Portal de la Valldigna - Access to the Arab Quarter\n## The portal takes its name from the Monastery \"of Santa Maria de la Valldigna\" that was in front of it. Opened in the Arabian wall, **it was the access door to the Arabian quarter from 1400**.\n\n### Located in the heart of the quarter known as \"**Carmen**\", the \"portal of the Valldigna\" maintains the historical memory of the area that blends with the current modernity.\n\n### In the portal, there is a reproduction of the original altarpiece that existed there, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and that was placed in the year 1589. The altarpiece represents King Jaume II el Just in the act of founding the Monastery of La Valldigna, which he granted to the monks, as the legend that accompanies the image says \"Este vall per a la vostra causa\". In its upper part the representation of the Virgin Mary with the coats of arms of the city of Valencia and the **Valldigna Monastery**.\n\n\n### Here we can see several graffiti from the smallest to some that cover entire facades.\n\n### One of the most recurrent is **David de Limón**. \n\n"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FPORTAL.mp4?alt=media&token=571f8323-1454-4818-97c0-894385134b69"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6501.jpg?alt=media&token=9ee2aa47-1885-441d-a4c7-fc65bd6fd544"},{"type":"text","content":"# Let's talk a little about **David de Limón** and his famous drawing of a black character.\n\n### Some people see in him a stealthy ninja, like the technique of its author to draw them. Others, a karateka, a diver or even a thief dressed in black. However, the explanation is somewhat simpler: \"*In reality I did not intend to be a karateka, nor a ninja, he is a masked character who paints in the streets and represents my signature. He is masked because despite the acceptance that street art and graffiti have today, they are still something vandalistic and so you have to hide or hide*\", explains David de Limón.\n\n\nLimón's character comes to life with his gestures and details. The ninja - we give him this interpretation - paints, looks, is surprised and has feelings. \"*Yes, yes, he also has his little heart, which is represented inside a white circle in the center of his body, and with which he also transmits the author's moods when painting him*.\n# Let's talk a little about **David de Limón** and his famous drawing of a black character.\n\n### Some people see in him a stealthy ninja, like the technique of its author to draw them. Others, a karateka, a diver or even a thief dressed in black. However, the explanation is somewhat simpler: \"*In reality I did not intend to be a karateka, nor a ninja, he is a masked character who paints in the streets and represents my signature. He is masked because despite the acceptance that street art and graffiti have today, they are still something vandalistic and so you have to hide or hide*\", explains David de Limón.\n\n\n### Limón's character comes to life with his gestures and details. The ninja - we give him this interpretation - paints, looks, is surprised and has feelings. \"*Yes, yes, he also has his little heart, which is represented inside a white circle in the center of his body, and with which he also transmits the author's moods when painting him*.\n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6500.jpg?alt=media&token=704a9b9f-1afc-4101-88c2-5e0b46c26bcb"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_2663.jpg?alt=media&token=d6393201-0a04-4441-9671-fc4e1d5df92b"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6512.jpg?alt=media&token=d73c940a-8d0a-41bb-b7eb-0b022cf214b2"},{"type":"link","content":"www.daviddelimon.com"},{"type":"text","content":"## I recommend you this fantastic restaurant where we go only locals \"La Mandragora\" will surprise you. "},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6496.jpg?alt=media&token=3594ebcc-a146-45d9-af25-b9fda2ef1db9"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6497.jpg?alt=media&token=0b9a52ea-207c-4adb-a039-48a0395875bd"}]},{"address":"Passatge Doctor Serra","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":39.46629181307502,"longitude":-0.37556550000000577},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FESCIF_.m4a?alt=media&token=d9a36ecb-b8a8-4de4-b2a9-c53b9c3be20c"},{"type":"text","content":"# \"Fashion victim\", Escif's mural that denounces, in front of Primark València, the labor exploitation in the production of clothes in third countries.\n\n## The artist explains that the aim is to show the relationship between consumption and poverty.\n"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FESCIF_PRIMARK.mp4?alt=media&token=1ed4c37b-c309-4933-872b-4fe49fa1613c"},{"type":"text","content":"# The surreal and subversive street art of Escif\n\n## **Escif** is an anonymous artist known worldwide and originally from **Valencia**.\n\n### Appearing within the famous **documentary** \"**Exit Through the Gift Shop**,\" he is often labeled as the **Spanish Banksy** not only because of the issue of anonymity, but especially because of the **strong** messages he manages to express with his art.\n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_2673.JPG?alt=media&token=8e4251ec-d384-4bbe-a037-dfe80e5e0443"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_2899.JPG?alt=media&token=70a609a1-e777-491d-a5a1-69351df02dc4"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_6479.jpg?alt=media&token=1927c30f-52d6-44b9-a6e0-8798588c990e"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FPBd9QfDJvFoG8ecgIRdj%2FIMG_9425.JPG?alt=media&token=5b362e6e-e18f-49f4-afc0-d58d6be77ba2"},{"type":"text","content":"# Escif's is a surreal and dreamlike street art, a unique style that makes him one of the **most** **unusual** and **relevant** **protagonists** on the **world** scene.\n\n## Filiform and stylized figures, gaunt and almost childlike characters, purely atmospheric, few essential colors, fantastic and mysterious universes and paintings based on seemingly indecipherable and enigmatic content. \n\n### A style reminiscent of René Magritte's painting, evocative and metaphorical, capable of creating in the viewer a visual short-circuit and dragging him into the dream dimension.\n\n### \"*I try to focus my work around concepts, not just shapes. I try to find my style like the consequences of my own ideas. I understand the painting as an exercise of reflection that can be shared with people. I'm not looking for decorative paintings, I try to wake up viewers' minds*.\"\n\n#### *ESCIF, interview on unurth*\n\n### Irony and poetry. A continuous process of research to try to translate into images the irremediable distance that separates reality from representation.\n\n### His work, however, is at once **delicate** and **subversive**, **political**. His images aim to stimulate and awaken an awareness. His works critically investigate the nature of capitalism, economic dynamics, problems related to the mechanisms of modern society. All this translated into lightning-fast works through conceptual and poetic synthesis.\n\n"},{"type":"link","content":"@escif"}]}]