Urban art at the Dr. Fleming high school (Bastian Prendes and Marcos Ornosa) in Oviedo-Spain. CCC's Street Art Contest #116

At the beginning of last week, after a few weeks in which I was traveling to different parts of northern Spain, I was finally able to spend a few days working in the office of the company located in Oviedo (Asturias- Spain).

On Tuesday last week, after working in the office, I went to my apartment and after resting for half an hour, I set out to do a search of the urban art that is in the city and I came across a news from 2016 in a local newspaper about a high school located in Oviedo that had contacted two graffiti muralists to commission them to paint the facade of the high school Doctor Fleming with a mural in honor of the scientist.

The secondary school Dr. Fleming is located in the city of Oviedo, in Dr. Fleming street number 7. According to the newspaper article shared above, the director of the institute was at an urban art exhibition and saw Bastian Prendes painting and approached him to propose him to paint a mural of the scientist at the entrance of the institute. Surprisingly, Prendes' proposal was that he would carry out the commission through the partnership he had with another graffiti artist called Marcos Orsona in exchange for letting them also paint a mural of their choice on the opposite façade of the school.

As you can see, the mural on the main facade, despite being a mural made in 2016, has an excellent conservation and you can see in great detail the scientist Dr. Fleming who was the discoverer of penicillin, his laboratory dressed in petri dishes, flasks and all the scientific material that we could find in a laboratory of the time of the famous scientist.

On the other hand, there is a large mural by the same authors called "Roles" on the back façade of the institute, according to the information on Bastian Prendes' website.

This mural represents a large chameleon emerging from the waters attacked by dozens of piranhas. According to the information found on the Oviedo artist's website, the artists wanted to convey the imminent danger to the environment and nature, contrasting the constructive and the destructive and how it is necessary to adapt to change in order to move forward. This type of message, in a place where future generations are formed, is a message that in my opinion is very important to convey and what better than with urban art.

Unfortunately, as you can see, the passing of the years is causing the chameleon to lose the vividness of the colors it originally had and also the use of plastic paint combined with spray and the inclement weather are causing parts of the mural that are losing the paint completely. However, for those who want to see its original state in the link that I have left a few lines above you can see the original state of the mural.

Regards.

Own photograph taken with my Iphone SE.

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