SWAB STAIRS

SWAB STAIRS in collaboration with TMB and KOGNITIF

We have chosen the winning images that will be displayed on the metros of Barcelona.

From IDEP by Ilustraplicados the work Cucaracha will be placed at Paseo de Gracia L2 [delante cine Comedia] IDEP

From IED by Randall Barriga, Matylda Zawadzka and Leyre Garatea, the work Citizen Zombie will be placed at Paseo de Gracia L2 [delante Zara P gracia]

From Pau Gargallo by Raquel Martín Peinado, the work Amebes will be placed at Catalunya L1 [Pl. Catalunya/Ronda Universitat · frente de Caja Madrid]

From La Llotja by Vero Liberal, the work Follow Me will be placed at Catalunya L1 [Pl. Catalunya/Ronda Universitat · frente El Corte Inglés]

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What Crisis?

Jorge Luis Garavito – Eduardo Contreras – Sanna Kristiina Tuurala – Rafael de Jesús

“What Crisis?” is an interpretation of the current economic crisis by icons of the collective imagination. Through the popular game “Monopoly”is intended to generate reflection on the consequences of the crisis. Thanks to the location of the graphics on the stairs creates a double meaning for the observer, both going up the escalator and see the crisis on the left, like the one down the stairs and ignore the crisis until it goes down, with the situation created and pedestrians themselves an important part of the work.

Citizen Zombie

Randall Barriga – Matylda Zawadska – Leyre Garatea

Our intention is to create an impact on the public and make you think about your habits and routines.
We also want to make a critique of the consumerist lifestyle PLC society which still carries today.
The colors, yellow and black, they transmit warning or caution, wanting to communicate well the danger of becoming truly urban zombies.

INVOLUTION

Amparo Cativiela – Dasha Pankeeva – Carlo Lemmel

When we do this project based on a number of things, first did a preliminary study to know the di-fferent kinds of people who catch the metro and internal movement within him. After the scan-it, we realized that there are so many different people and so many people with concerns multiparous, seemed a good idea to explain a little story.
Our history is based on the evolution from the first living creatures, till we are now, assuming that everyone gets the same problem which is the crisis. What we want is to make a pun. Based on the underground level, our idea is to do a redesign and take six metro linia. Each metro station is an evolution of a living, assuming that all linia start at one place and end up in a different season, but all end with the same message.
Each step that goes up the viewer, is evolving, and will see the types of developments there, until you reach the end of all that is in reality, the word crisis, giving the viewer a message that he himself open to the interpret as you wish. By doing this evolutionary process we realized that we really is quite an evolution but it is an involution, because we are slowly coming back to back.
The conclusion, our project is based on the idea of devolution, till the point that every living being to get the problem we now have in our society in crisis.

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Follow me

Vero Liberal

The proposal seeks to awaken a sense designed the viewer, causing no effect. For some it will be something totally surreal, idyllic for others, or chaotic. Leaving aside deeper issues or reaching on contemporary art wants to awaken the curiosity of those who see this and have become interested in discovering what it is.

Salida óptica

Natalia Morales

My proposal at the idea of creating an optical illusion to take advantage the stairs as space, because when we get to raise them have a view that we create a sense of depth and so I found interesting the idea to stimulate this effect .
The optical illusions lead us to see reality transformed, just as works of art that depending on the person and the place from where to be look at various printing can cause us. In fact, many artists have used optical illusions and perspective in their work, for example, Dali, Duchamp …
Since the subway is a cave where usually dark to a temperature high enough, the people who frequent it usually accelerates again as it nears the time of “coming forth”, so I decided to illustrate this concept with the silhouette of a person walking on the optical illusion leading to the outside.

Victor

Pablo Vaquero

My proposal speaks for itself, no text that may confuse the observer, there is no message. I wanted to make an association between contemporary art and breaks Olympic sports one of the most artistic. I insist on creating an image lluis only depends on the interpretation each equal to contemporary art. It seeks answers to what we have before, but we see and value what we are saying is that the work itself.