02-04-2018

A curtain in the street, public art by mmmm...

Alcalá de Henares, Spain,

Installation,

velvet,

Event, Landscaping,

“Entre telones” means “between curtains”.



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A curtain in the street, public art by mmmm... “Entre telones” means “between curtains”. This is the name of a public art work realised in Alcalá de Henares by the creatives of mmmm... for the XVII Classical Theatre Festival of the Community of Madrid, to remark the role of the street as the stage of the everyday life.


mmmm... is the result of the collaboration between Emilio Alarcón, Alberto Alarcón, Ciro Márquez and Eva Salmerón who, since 1998, have designed public spaces in Madrid (Spain), where they are based, as well as in the rest of the world, as we could see in the past with "Waiting for the Bus in Baltimore (link).
One of their latest interventions was realised last summer, on the occasion of the XVII Classic Theatre Festival of the Community of Madrid held in Alcalá de Henares, a Spanish municipality with over 200,000 inhabitants and birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes. “Entre telones” is a public art work realised in an internal street of the city, which is divided by two red velvet theatre curtains that create an intermediate space between them.
While the eyes cannot cross these curtains, as they are both drawn, hiding what is behind them, pedestrians can. Passing through the six-meter-high curtains, indeed, they can access a street area of square proportions, an isolated space that is as intriguing and fascinating as a real theatre stage.
With this installation, the mmmm... creatives brought theatre out into the public space, realising a singular setting in the street where pedestrians can stage their own experiences. They created a place where people can meet, or fail to meet, a rarefied space where endless things could happen, as they happen in real life.
With “Entre telones” the mmmm... team provides another example of their passion for public art. Every artistic intervention strongly interacts with the environment surrounding it, which becomes an integral part of the work itself.
In Alcalá de Henares visitors are really involved: differently from the works exhibited inside the white-painted, almost aseptic rooms of a museum, art in public spaces becomes “dynamic” and can be “experienced”. Visitors become actors on the urban stage, repeating the role they play during their everyday life, regardless of the Theatre Festival..

Christiane Bürklein

Project: mmmm... - http://www.mmmm.tv/enindex.html
Place:  Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Year: 2017
Images: courtesy of mmmm...

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