Buenos Aires Mural
The Perth Tango Club mural was painted by Verena Marmion in 2011 to provide a romantic backdrop for Tango events at the lesser town hall in Leederville Perth.
Verena Marmion received a comission from the Perth Tango Club in June 2011. The tango club stipulated that the mural must be simple and blend in to the background of the club, to add ambience for the dancers. So it blends in, you will find features of the actual room painted into the mural series. These includes replicas of the existing windows, round tables with red table cloths and the street lamps.
Perth Tango club Members shared with artist Verena Marmion their Buenos Aires photographs featuring grand old turn of the century buildings and memories to create this painting. Verena who had not been to Buenos Aires requested that the tango community share with here their impressions from which she created a collage and then a design for the Perth tango club Mural.
Verena primarily considers herself to be a watercolourist. Therefore one interesting feature of this wall is that most of the mural was painted with watered down washes of the paint.The mural was painted with housepaint. The various shades of colour were all mixed by hand from pure tints.
You are further welcome to view the interactive timeline describing the process of painting the mural on this link.
Verena Marmion received a comission from the Perth Tango Club in June 2011. The tango club stipulated that the mural must be simple and blend in to the background of the club, to add ambience for the dancers. So it blends in, you will find features of the actual room painted into the mural series. These includes replicas of the existing windows, round tables with red table cloths and the street lamps.
Perth Tango club Members shared with artist Verena Marmion their Buenos Aires photographs featuring grand old turn of the century buildings and memories to create this painting. Verena who had not been to Buenos Aires requested that the tango community share with here their impressions from which she created a collage and then a design for the Perth tango club Mural.
Verena primarily considers herself to be a watercolourist. Therefore one interesting feature of this wall is that most of the mural was painted with watered down washes of the paint.The mural was painted with housepaint. The various shades of colour were all mixed by hand from pure tints.
You are further welcome to view the interactive timeline describing the process of painting the mural on this link.