The Fasnia seafront already has the mural with which the rehabilitation works on the front of the municipality have been completed, a project that has attracted attention and has gone viral on the networks, because, among other details, it has a new beach that It enters the Bahia apartments, built in an open circle and which now have a public beach inside, thanks to a ruling that declared the old swimming pool illegal.
A promenade has been built in that space, within the framework of the project called Tenerife and the sea, which has a false tunnel that guarantees the safety of pedestrians traveling from Los Roques beach and the Bahía apartments. The wall of this already has a mural by the well-known artist Roberto Rodríguez, Ro.Ro (Tenerife, 1981).
Access between both areas had to be closed in November 2020 due to the poor condition of the promenade, which had been affected by decades of tides.
The solution chosen was a comprehensive project of two million euros, both for the Los Roques area and for Las Eras, which required a new breakwater.
“It was a public contest by the Cabildo of Tenerife to complete the works with this mural,” explains Roberto Rodríguez about the work he carried out over the course of a week and which he also posted in a publication on his social networks.
“The theme was free, although luminosity in the colors was requested. At first I wanted to use spray, but it was impossible because of the wind in the entire area,” he says. This situation led him to opt for the brush, which he has used to place common elements in his work and that identify him.
“I use sterlicia, which is a flower that I use because Superman gives it to Lois Lane, with which there is an adaptation of my work to this mural,” in which there are also “trompe l’oeil, with the use of silhouette and elements that seem to be there, but they are not,” he emphasizes.
“I like to use children’s elements that we played with in the eighties – like the famous playmobil, which he has used in other works – which are here in the colored scratches that children often paint on the walls at home.”
“That is to say, there is a lot of style that identifies me with the image of Los Roques itself. There are banana trees, stelicias, trompe-l’oeil, silhouettes, children’s elements… It is my own work, but adapted to what was required in this work,” he added. A work that has also been varnished and protected to minimize the effects that the passage of time may have on a work that serves to inaugurate a seafront that has changed the Fasnia coastline and has given it international repercussion.
