MAF - Malaga Arts Festival

The Festival de Malaga opened with a bang on the 13th of May and it made for a weekend of art for myself and Enid.It started on Thursday evening where we headed to Calle Santos to see the staging of an art intervention by David Burbano and Roy Laguna of La Casa Amarilla. Friday night brought us to the opening of Eryk Pall’s artwork in the Pompidou Centre and then we were in the Russian Museum on Saturday for another exciting MAF Event.

Cuidado Arte en la Ciudad

La Casa Amarilla makes a bold statement about the need to be attentive to the arts in these times. This was a really striking installation which featured artists Laguna and Burbano position a large scale “wet floor sign” in the center of the street and they then added their message to it. With lots of people stopping to look, it definitely got it’s message out!

Eryk Pall - “El sentido del viento / Le sens du vent”

After collecting tickets earlier in the day we we went to the Pompidou Centre in Malaga for the inauguration of the Eryk Pall intervention on the stair case of the Pompidou. Titled “The Sense of the Wind” it is an awesome black and white installation. It is a staged piece of art that will be added to over the next few months. Eryk is one of the artists in La Casa Amarilla so I was very happy for him to have his art exhibited in such a prestigious venue. He is a French man so it is very apt too!

David Burbano & Eryk Pall at Museo Ruso Malaga for MAF Festival in Malaga

1% Intervencion aristica de Eryk Pall y David Burbano en la coleccion del Museo Ruso - MAF 2021

The main thrust of this artistic work is to bring visibility to the precariousness faced by artists in the face of the social measures due to the current crisis. The artwork consists of over 100 canvas with an artist’s name subtly printed on to it - you need to get up close to see the names. The 1% intervention puts forward the question that when artists are not visible what is the relevance of them and their work.

It was an honor to hear that my name was one of the artists featured within the art work and I was privileged to attend the opening.

Muchas Gracias David y Eryk!