Artist Pepe Yanez has been committed to Seville’s hospitals for many years, creating numerous murals in Virgin of Rossio and Valmy. And now it has been shown for the first time in Virgin Macarena With the project “All minds … They are magicala mural he made in Mental health unit He drew two corridors, each about fifteen meters long, that meet in the dining room, a space that was also decorated with two pictorial pieces.
This Seville painter comments that the Macarena Hospital project was chosen as a result of this call Support my 2025 cause From Coca-Cola. Yanez had already worked on a series of murals that he began in the mental health unit of the Virgen del Rocío and later continued in Valmy.
“I always try to tell a story in my murals and create positive energy,” says the creator, which is why his works can be seen in various places such as Seville Prison Center 1It is a place where guests collaborate. These paintings can also be seen in the various schools in which the students participated. That is why, in the case of All Minds is Magic, mental health trainees, health workers and Coca-Cola volunteers also participated. “It was one of the most emotional projects I’ve done because of that Mental health is a disease that must be treated like any other disease. “In general, people enter the mental health unit with the wrong idea, and that’s why I want to highlight the profession of doctors and health workers because it’s brutal,” Yanez says.
This project was implemented in collaboration with the Retos Azules Foundation, an entity It seeks to improve the quality of life of minors and vulnerable families through material and emotional supportAnd involve the community in solving its problems.
Both the murals that adorn the two adjacent aisles in the dining area and the two pieces created in this final space are made of… Technology of combining plastic coating and spraying. The artist highlights that hospital plastic paint has a vinyl base. “I’ve been trying for about a week. In the morning, the Coca-Cola volunteer team would help me, and in the afternoon I would do the professional part. Volunteers and health workers painted the backgrounds, and some people with artistic skills also painted some of the foliage,” says the creator.
As for the project’s title, “All Minds are Magic,” it “sums up the creative intent of the mural. You see that magic is something innate, even though it does not develop later because life’s circumstances can take you to another place,” says Pepe Yanez, who adds that “Through a mural you can direct moments of difficulty and from there the elements of magic can appear.”.
In these paintings Human figures that appear. In fact, the artist used Silhouette Resources. “I use human truth without distinction between gender or color. The shape as a silhouette gives me an element that gives rhythm to the wall. Ultimately, colors transform and humanize a space. “The mural should create calm and tranquility for patients, healthcare workers and their families. There are theories about how colors affect mood.. When you paint a mural that has balance, composition and the right palette, the space opens up and people say, “This is another place,” says Yanez, who fondly recalls that even though the patient couldn’t participate in the mural, one day he began to pet a tree that had been painted. “I also work a lot on window code. I make small open windows that repeat. “All this contributes to changing people’s moods.”
New projects
This illustrator announces that the two new projects he will be implementing in “All Minds Are Magic” have already been confirmed. These are two wall entries with blue challenges, one of them is in Special education school of the city of San Juan de Dios in Alcala de Guadairaand the other in Emergency and pediatric surgery units at Virgin Macarena Hospital. The project was selected within the “Matchfunding Donax2” call. “Mental Health”, from the Triodos Foundation, aims to support organizations working to promote mental health through already active crowdfunding.
Likewise, Pepe Yanez will return to Cameroon in 2026 after painting a mural in a school last June, and will also implement new mural projects next year in educational centers in the Ashaninka and Yanesha communities in Peru’s central jungle.