The 4th VCF Urban Art Route, especially linked to the flash floods

The VCF Urban Art Route reaches its fourth edition in this 25/26 football season and opens with the mural by international artist Felipe Pantone in Benetússer, with the inauguration event held on the evening of September 25.

This fourth edition of the Route is especially linked to the flash floods of October 29, 2024, with works being carried out in the 16 most affected towns: Alaquàs, Albal, Aldaia, Alfafar, Algemesí, Beniparrell, Catarroja, Chiva, La Torre, Lloc Nou de la Corona, Massanassa, Paiporta, Picanya, Sedaví, Utiel and Benetússer.

On this occasion, the work has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of the VCF Foundation with the Gumball 3000 Foundation, the Benetússer Town Council and the team of Felipe Pantone.

In this context, Felipe Pantone’s mural in Benetússer is a work that depicts, in a very personal way, the life process experienced by the artist as a result of the flash floods. Pantone’s studio in Massanassa was devastated, losing not only a workplace but also one of his sources of inspiration.

As the artist himself conceptualises and expresses through his work “TERRA DE VALENTIA. Stability – Interruption – Clarity”, the flash floods broke stability, leading to an interruption that, finally, was overcome with clarity.

Felipe Pantone: “A timeline in which stability is abruptly interrupted by an accumulation of overwhelming events: the DANA. That irruption symbolises the chaos, the uncertainty and the vulnerability of our environment. However, beyond the interruption, the chromatic rhythm is re-established and leads to a state of greater clarity, light and hope”.

“The work – the author explains – transforms rupture into renewal and turns a local tragedy into a universal message: the resilience and the capacity of a community to overcome.”

With this mural Pantone pays tribute to collective strength “and to the certainty that, after every storm, a clearer horizon emerges”, in his own words.

Benetússer joins the 11 Valencian towns that already host murals as part of the VCF Urban Art Route by the VCF Foundation and the Diputació de València, works linked to Valencia CF, its history, its protagonists, its achievements and its unifying capacity in Valencia, the metropolitan area, the province and the Region: Cullera, Riba-roja de Túria and Sueca (1st Route); Adzeneta d'Albaida, Alfafar, Gandia and Oliva (2nd Route); and Beniatjar, Gavarda, Montroi and Tavernes de la Valldigna (3rd Route).