Last Friday was the opening of Shadow Shining, Spanish artist Dourone‘s first solo exhibition at Galerie Orlinda Lavergne in Mulhouse, France, in occasion of which, he also painted this new large-scale mural.
Titled “Même Composition Même Beauté” (Same Composition Same Beauty) and painted in the Côteaux neighborhood, the new mural is 38 meters high and 12 meters wide, making it one of the tallest murals in town.
According to Dourone, the mural is an ode to the concept of “respect” here represented by a female portrait painted in Dourone’s characteristic bright blue and orange palette.
Dourone’s artworks are figurative and surrealistic, they combine bright colours with the illustrative line-work so characteristic of his paintings, always dominated by the female figure. Allegorical portraits that speak about womanhood and concepts like responsibility, solidarity, complementarity and creation, but also about an almost esoteric whole and infinity. The work reflects the artist’s so-called “sentipensante”* style revealing humanist ideals that question our place on earth and our responsibility in relation to this world. What do you think?
Images by Jean-Paul Houille
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Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
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