Paseo de la Catrina surge como proyecto independiente bajo la necesidad de expresar y transmitir la experiencia y tradición de la festividad de Día de Muertos en Guadalajara, presentando desde 2012 un evento anual en conmemoración de nuestros bellos muertos y la creación de la mayor representante mexicana de estas fechas honrando nuestra identidad a través de una experiencia comunitaria, inclusiva y de carácter histórico en nuestra sociedad.
La cuarta edición de Paseo de la Catrina (Festival del Día de Muertos) se lleva a cabo del 29 de Octubre al 1 de Noviembre del 2015, presentando un Festival Artístico Multidisciplinario de 4 días incluyendo más de 200 artistas mexicanos en exposición, una fiesta alegórica, talleres referentes y nuestro tradicional Desfile de Catrinas partiendo de la sede sede oficial en Café Benito-Sala Juárez del emblemático edificio LARVA ubicado en pleno Centro Histórico tapatío.
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Paseo de la Catrina is an independent project that comes up under the need of transmit the experience of the mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead. Presented fot the first time in 2012, it takes place in Guadalajara, México inside a Multidisciplinary Arts Festival that lasts 4 days including more than 200 artists.
Workshops, allegoric parties and a traditional Catrina parade walk parting from the emblematic LARVA building, near downtown.
MAKING OF and some other facts
I had only 3 days to paint the whole mural. I started the last days of september. Here in september, rains a lot, so the first day i it was raining, that cut my painting time to 2 days. I used a projector so i could work faster. Also, the wall was in a very bad condition so i have to scratch several paint layers off to get a solid surface.
I used mostly 360 spraypaint and acrylic paint provided by Prisa.
The wall is located in Enrique Diaz de Leon St. near the citiy's downtown. A small vegan food restaruant provided the wall and some food during painting days, they were awesome guys.
They asked me to use colors and a theme that could be also shared by their restaruant's manifesto. So the piece had a double purpose in the end.
I'm sorry to the guy who took this beautiful pictures. I don't remember his name :(
This is the original ink sketch i used
