MIAU-Museo Inacabado de Arte Urbano-The Unfinished Museum of Urban Art
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MIAU (The Unfinished Museum of Urban Art) in Fanzara, Spain is a constantly changing outdoor art gallery featuring psychedelic murals depicting robots, giant cats, aliens, beautiful cyborg women, and other oddities. It is an alternative way of creating community and recovering the local memory and pride and has become a popular destination for street art enthusiasts.
The MIAU project in Fanzara (Castellón) addresses the challenges of recovering good coexistence among residents and promoting urban art. The project is free, and the artists are very involved. In addition, the same town buildings are intervened to create the unfinished museum. The project also seeks to manage museums, parks and other areas of the town.
The goal of MIAU in Fanzara, Spain, is to involve art in the public space and use it as a social medium to bring people together. The project also aims to revive the divided village by providing an opportunity for artists from around the world to adorn its old-fashioned houses. This has been successful, as the project has helped bridge the divide between residents over plans to build a toxic waste dump.
The Unfinished Museum of Urban Art (MIAU) in Fanzara, Spain is a constantly changing and growing project. It involves artists from around the world travelling to Fanzara to adorn the old-fashioned houses. The complex task of cataloguing street and public art is implemented in a research project at MIAU.
Implementing MIAU in Fanzara require resources such as time, infrastructure, and personnel, especially the promoters (Javier and Rafa). Cultural rural tourism is a development tool for many rural and isolated areas to supplement traditional industries often in decline. The town board of Fanzara provided a small budget for the project, but additional resources may be needed depending on the project’s scope. These could include taxes such as income tax, road tax, etc.
The main benefits and contributions of the project MIAU (Unfinished Museum of Urban Art) to the town of Fanzara are that it has enabled young people to express themselves through art, transformed the city, and become an open outdoor gallery. The project began by inviting 15 of Spain’s leading street artists to paint murals on the walls of Fanzara’s old-fashioned houses and has since grown into an annual festival. It has also turned the small Spanish village into a destination for street art, reflecting social and political claims that vary from city to city.
The project M.I.A.U. (Unfinished Museum of Urban Art) in Fanzara, Spain, has successfully united the village and brought in artists from around the world to adorn its old-fashioned walls. However, there are some limitations and risks associated with it, such as the need for funding from the European Union Programmes and potential damage to the artwork due to weather conditions.
The transferability of the MIAU project to other towns in Europe also depends on the availability of resources and investment. The project has been implemented at relatively low cost, and the town of Fanzara has benefited from grants and investment from the local government. Other towns in Europe may not have access to the same level of resources, although some governments are increasingly providing funding for projects of this nature.
Overall, the potential for transferability of the MIAU project in Fanzara to other towns in Europe is high, provided that the necessary resources and investment are available. Furthermore, the collaborative and participatory approach taken in Fanzara could be successfully replicated in other towns in Europe, to ensure that the projects are successful.https://miau32.wixsite.com/miaufanzara
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https://elpais.com/sociedad/2019/03/01/pienso_luego_actuo/1551452116_864947.htmlOne day there was a City Council project to install a toxic and dangerous waste dump in the town. And that was the fracture. “There were families that stopped talking; groups of friends that broke up; complaints between neighbours… coexistence became completely chaotic”, explains Rafa Gascó, one of the forerunners of MIAU.
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In one of the first artistic interventions of the MIAU, giant, mountainous, worn-out hands appeared painted on the walls of the workshop of one of the town’s residents, Román. From the Italian collective FX, after spending the afternoon with him, they asked him: “How have you earned your living?”, and Román, without hesitation, thought about what had been his …
The beginnings were not easy. “We spent three years trying to find an interested artist to whom we could explain the project,” says Javier. Finally, they managed to approach the Mur-murs collective, from Menorca, dedicated to urban art, which helped them present the idea to other artists.
Suddenly, in just three months, they had achieved the participation of 21 artists, including some of the most recognized in the country such as Deih; Juliet Xlf; Escif, ‘the Valencian banksy’; Hombrelópez or Susie Hammer, among others. In September the MIAU was inaugurated: four days of coexistence that left 44 artistic interventions. “We had bought white paint to spare in case all the interventions had to be removed,” explains Javier. “At the beginning we only had five walls donated by the City Council and another five from the neighbors, but seeing the quality of the works, more and more neighbors were offering their facades.”
And, precisely because of the growing enthusiasm of the people of Fanzar, the MIAU has grown as they have chosen: the residents began to welcome the artists into their homes and take on organizational tasks; Workshops and guided tours began to be held throughout the year and, today, there is no weekend that the town is not filled with people with cameras on their shoulders. “In Fanzara there is only one school with 14 students, but the town is often full of children, full buses arriving to do workshops, to see the paintings on the walls. That is also life for the people.”
For the people behind the MIAU, it is very important that the museum continues to respect the rhythms of its most precious works, the people. “All this will last until the neighbors want it to be so, because the project depends on them, as well as on the volunteering of the artists.” Everyone here is clear that it is not about scaling up, but about gaining depth: “The project is still small and sustainable. The whole town could be painted, but that would no longer be our project, it would stop being a coexistence project”, they explain.Videos:
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