CIRCULAR | SAN CRISTÓBAL, VILLAVERDE | 7 - 20 OCTUBRE DE 2019

Circular is an art festival which will produce artistic interventions in the public space, created with recycled and found materials; these interventions are easily associated to street-art but at the same time want to stay way from how street-art is mainly conceived nowadays, where big murals have a dominant role. Circular aims to help to revert the process which has taken street-art far from human scale and somehow take it back there. Besides, by promoting the use of found materials for the interventions, we launch the debate about a second life for objects, responsible consumption and leveraging of resources, focusing on sustainability, recycling and the role of people in our cities. 

The neighborhood of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles, in Villaverde, will host all the activity of the festival. By taking Circular to this area, we want to contribute to cultural decentralization and democratization of art in Madrid city, taking art to all kinds of audiences.

Besides, the artists will work closely with the context of the area: in the first week, they will get first-hand knowledge about the neighborhood and will work on the future context of their interventions; in the second week, they will produce and install their works, which will be complemented with a parallel street activities program.

Circular is a project by Madrid Street Art Project whose first edition has been possible thanks to the support of a subsidy granted by the Área de Cultura y Deporte del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Madrid Street Art Project is an independent organization who organizes, creates and produces projects and activities involving street art, with the aim of promoting, spreading and supporting art in the public space, as well as their creators, bringing it to all kinds of audiences.

Founded in Madrid in 2012 by Guillermo de la Madrid and Diana Prieto, MSAP has mainly focused on the Madrid scene, but always looking forward to expand to other cities and countries. Besides, MSAP manages its own website and social media, which allows it to carry out the exhaustive record and dissemination work street art deserves nowadays.

With all this, MSAP aims to contribute to improve the public space of the cities so that its inhabitants can use it and enjoy it through art and culture.