World artists create Panama Mural Fest
The first completed work of The Panama Mural Fest which runs from May 20-26 is of Panama’s multi world-titled iconic boxer Roberto Duran It is in a hidden corner of El Chorillo where “hands of stone” grew up.
The mural depiticts him in his prime with his boxing gloves and the colors of the national flag in The Fest is , an artistic initiative with the goal of creating 30 large murals on the streets of Santa Ana and El Chorrillo in order to add value to walls within communities where art does not usually knock on the door, says artist Disem305 , who has teamed with his colleague Dreps to manage the project.
Some 30 muralists from Spain, the United States, Denmark, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, and Panama are busy working with spray paint.
Since the beginning of 2019, the ‘Mural 500’ initiative has been developed, which produces murals in each of the 26 districts of Panama City to mark the 500th anniversary of its founding.
. One of the objectives of this initiative is that the murals pay tribute to the stories of each village and its inhabitants with the participation of the communities themselves.
