Cinta Vidal (37) welcomes us at the base of her latest work for the Marc de Vilalba Library in Cardedeu, the town where she has lived since she was ten. “We’ve been painting here for four days, and the people’s response has been really positive”, she explains enthusiastically. It is the first mural she has painted in her hometown, and she is unable to hide the pride she feels about “working from home”. To the astonishment of certain passers-by, a tangled web of seemingly suspended books, furniture and figures begin to emerge from the library’s façade. Flipped perspectives and a sense of weightlessness are two of the features that distinguish the work of this Catalan artist, who cut her teeth in the Set Design Workshop run by the Castells Planas brothers and, today, sells her painting at the Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles and has displayed large-format murals in countries such as China, Japan and Hawaii.
Impars and the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture have joined forces to bring Cinta Vidal’s talent to the walls of our university. As of May, the façade of the Aula Magna and the gate to the entrance of the Barcelona Campus will grace large murals symbolising the concept of university as a space for generating knowledge. We spoke to her about her career and her project for UIC Barcelona.
