The Aquario in Almuñécar now sports new murals onto what used to be plain walls, thanks to work carried out by grafiti artists.

Councillor Carlos Ferrón, who has watched the artistic work unfold was a happy bunny, saying, “The works are very well done.”

We say new murals because the first one was painted back in 2014 by a well-known artist, Raúl Ruiz, known as El Niño de las Pinturas and his mural has been restored as it is over a decade old.

Since 2014 the Aquario was closed for four years owing to a whole host of problems until it was finally opened to the public again last year. To mark the reopening, Belgian urban-artist who goes under the curious name of Kiwi Wall Art had this task of providing four, large,mural depiction: one is 60q/m in area!

Now, the artist hasn’t just decide copy a photograph of him on the beach with the family because they each represent a period during evolution; Cambrian and Devonian, for example, thrown in with a spot of Greek mythology.

One of the murals traces the evolution of life in the oceans from the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago, through the Devonian period, known as the “age of fish,” to the seas of today. It depicts octopuses descended from ancient mollusks, nautiluses that evoke the primitive seas, and Mediterranean species that still swim in the waters off the coast of Granada.

But these four mural works will be followed by others at a later stay, according to the Councillor, “The aquarium itself will become a work of art throughout its entire length, thus offering an additional attraction to the Mediterranean fauna aquariums. It will be like a grand underwater stage where fantastical art will swim among sharks.”

Leaving the Councillor to his flights of imagination, we will conclude with…why not shuffle along there and have a butchers?

Editoral note: we should explain for our non-native, English speakers, that “have butcher’s is a Britishism and more precisely, Cockney rhyming slang: butcher’s hook = look.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Source: MJ Arrebola/Ideal)

Keywords: Aquarium, Sea Life, Mural Depictions, Urban Artist

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