Who would have thought that Manolo Vital, a simple union bus driver in Torre Baró in the 70’s, would win five Goya awards a few decades later for the best film dedicated to his story, and that his face would be the protagonist of a giant mural a few minutes away from the neighborhood where he grew up.
While the neighborhood is still celebrating the five Goya awards won by the film, the urban artist Morcky Troubles is finishing a mural dedicated to the bus hijacking on one of the facades of the Som Multiespai shopping center, in the Porta neighborhood, which will be inaugurated on Monday, February 17 at 11 am in an institutional act with the presence of the film’s director, Marcel Barrena.
The mural shows the image of the bus 47, the castle of Torre Baró, the profile of Manolo Vital (played by Eduard Fernández) and the figure of Carme Vila (played by Clara Segura) at the moment when she receives the warning call of the bus kidnapping.
It is in an interactive outdoor space managed by the mall and dedicated to young creators who wanted to dedicate it to this film and its story, and which is part of the collaboration of the mall with the Kronos Art festival.
The artist in charge was Morcky Troubles, an Italian graffiti artist with an outstanding career in illustration, audiovisuals, animation, painting and photography, who designed the mural based on stills from the film.