Winds of the People Carry me along

Álvaro Belmonte; Miguel López; Maite López, Javier Ortuño “Winds of the People Carry me along” 2012 Between Calle Sauce and Calle San Isidro Labrador A large mural from 2012. The painters reflect over a blue background some faces shouting freedom next to animals that were referred to metaphorically by Miguel Hernández in his poetry, and [...]
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Sino Bloody

María José Cortés Piñero (Author) and Julia Aledo; Carmen García (Collaborators) “Sino Bloody” 2012 C/Sauce In the mural the author tries to explain through a surrealist representation, the feeling of pain for a tragic fate of the poet (who logically manifests his political ideas and ambiguities, in which the author of the mural, does not [...]
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Sin título

Sixto Marco; Mª Dolores Mulá "Sin título" Side of Calle Sauce 1976-2012 Sixto Marco, a painter and sculptor from Elche (1916-2002), made this mural in 1976 during the “Tribute of the villages of Spain to Miguel Hernández”. This painting highlights the painter’s unique personal style. A female body with her back turned is at the [...]
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Pajaritas de papel (Paper Birds)

Mª Dolores Mulá “Pajaritas de papel” (Paper Birds) 2012 Lateral Calle Sauce 2 izq. Elche poet María Dolores Mulá produced this mural in 2012 portraying two paper birds symbolising the letters exchanged between Miguel Hernández and Josefina Manresa. The painting includes the verses: Write to me on earth, so that I can reply” from the [...]
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Versos resueltos (Resolute Verses)

Javier Rojo “Versos resueltos” (Resolute Verses) 2012 Side of Calle Sauce The mural shows green and blue leafs surrounded by coloured stars where the verses of the Lullaby of the onion poem are reflected.   The onion is frost, closed and poor: frost of your days and of my nights. Hunger and onion: black ice [...]
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