Art project feat. Guillem Font
The Spanish mural artist Guillem Font in Bulgaria! With his signature style in monochrome colors, Font creates bizarre and magical worlds, based on real natural species, but enriching them with fantastic compositions and patterns.
"The art project with Guillem Font" is implemented with the financial support of the Sofia Municipality - Program "Europe" 2024 by Visionary Foundation in partnership with the "Triaditsa" Region and the Instituto Cervantes - Sofia.
From October 28th to November 3rd, the Spanish mural artist Guillem Font will be painting a mural on depicting Vitosha and typical natural elements of the flora and fauna of the mountain. The wall, which will become soon a piece of contemporary urban art, overlooks the courtyard of the National Professional High School of Poligraphy and Photography (NPGPF), Sofia. As an additional activity to the art project, financed under the Program "Europe" of Sofia Municipality, the artist will lead a linocut workshop with high school students, which will deepen their practical skills in this old printing technique and at the same time get their attention to the tourism of Vitosha.
Partners of the project are "Triaditsa" District and the Cervantes Institute - Sofia.
The project sets the following specific goals:
• Through mural art in a public environment to reach a wider range of people and a more unusual way to depict the beauty of Vitosha mountain and the importance of its presence so near the city.
• Through direct artistic work with a Spanish artist to expand the audience we can reach locally and use both Visionary's international network and that of the artist Guillem Font to promote Sofia and Vitosha as an attractive tourist destination - at the same time with the proximity of nature to the capital and urban art at the European level.
• Engaging the attention of young people towards Vitosha as an attractive destination and awakening their connection with nature through creative activity - linocut workshops.
• Creating an opportunity for young people with a professional interest in printing and visual arts to realize, under the mentorship of an established artist and practitioner, their own unique works in a limited series - linocuts, to be shown in a kind of exhibition during the opening of the mural.
• Formation of a long-term and professional relationship between Visionary, the regional administration, the Cervantes Cultural Institute and an educational institution in the person of the NPGPF.
• Creation of another work of urban art with open access, part of the tourist map of Sofia.
Activities that are part of the project are:
• creation of a contemporary mural;
• linocut workshop for students from the high-school;
• creation of audio, photo and video content to promote the project.