C3 Cariari Corporate Center invites muralists to a contest to intervene a facade of this complex located in Heredia.

C3 Cariari Corporate Center, known as the old Real Cariari, invites muralists to a contest to intervene the east-north façade of this renovated complex located in Heredia, in front of the General Cañas highway.

The contest is developed by Real Estate Portfolio hand in hand with the cultural initiative Your City your Canvas.

And it seeks to encourage Costa Rican or international visual artists based in our country. The winning muralist or group of artists will receive a one-time prize of $7,500 as well as supporting materials for the mural.

“In Real Estate Portfolio we are proud to be pioneers in the country of global trends that seek to enhance commercial spaces.

“These are places that are decaying and transforming them into mixed-use projects with high quality standards. This is for the establishment of world-class offices, seeking to be catalysts that transform cities into urban spaces that provoke pride and belonging”, commented Alfredo Volio, executive director of Real Estate Portfolio.

“We want to involve the community, put this transformation process of C3 on the map, match the launch of the project with the launch of the mural,” said Arnoldo Estrada, Project Director of the C3 Cariari Corporate Center.

Your City: Your Canvas is a citizen initiative for cultural management and urban beautification.

Through an open call, in recent years it has allowed the intervention of high-visibility metropolitan spaces, with a curated and participatory selection, explained Mauricio Herrera Palma, Project Manager and Developer, San José Lab & Your City: Your Canvas.

The details of the contest

The call is open and visual artists, illustrators, graphic designers, architects, painters and space designers can participate.

But they can also make it public in general with interests in the intervention of the collective space.

The details of the proposal (model, digital representation to scale in PDF or JPG format or a high resolution photograph or scan of the PDF intervened by hand) will be evacuated by a qualifying jury.

Of the total number of works, 10 will be preselected. From this preselection, a Facebook album will be created.

Here the public will be able to be one more judge in the final qualifying panel made up of approximately 10 people.

Once the name of the winner or winners is known, the mural should be executed in March.

the theme

The theme should focus on the title: The city that is transformed.

It must include elements that represent some of the following thought criteria that must be interpreted and drawn by the artists:

transformation landscape
sustainable transformation
New city natures
The new aesthetics of cities
The demystification of tradition in the city
Imaginary of new urban icons
urban speeds
The user of the city as an agent of reconstruction of urban aesthetics
The convergence/competition between public space and private space.
Obligations of the participants
Originality: only original proposals will be admissible. Proposals that are the same or similar to those that have been submitted in procedures with the same characteristics will not be accepted under any circumstances.
The proposals submitted must guarantee absolute respect for the intellectual or industrial property rights of third parties.
In no case may content be included that threatens the dignity of people or is considered unpleasant or offensive by the qualifying jury.
The participants must keep the maximum confidentiality regarding the content of the proposals. They may not be published or broadcast, either in whole or in part, by you, prior to the publication of the final decision of the contest.
The design selected as the winner of the contest may not be used by its author, in whole or in part, for other works or subsequent projects.
Failure to comply with these obligations will result in the exclusion of the participant.
No relative of a member of the organizing entities or of the jury can participate in the call.
Likewise, it is declared that the C3 Cariari Corporate Center and San José Lab are exempt from any infringement by the participant in relation to intellectual and/or industrial property rights.

 

For more information about the registration process, you can visit: https://www.sanjoselab.com/c3cariaricorporatecenter