
Lines with art: L11, from Raventós to a tribute to the residents of Carabanchel
The initiative to include an ornamental element in this station came from the residents' association with the goal of paying tribute "to all the neighbours who made a better neighbourhood possible", as the inscription on the mural that finally materialised the idea reads. It is the work of Moisés Ruano and consists of a steel relief that symbolises, as a metaphor, the work of the inhabitants of Carabanchel, whose hands are represented by beams joined by flanges that also recall the shapes of the houses in the neighbourhood. Next to them, five trees remind us of the well-being of green spaces in urban neighbourhoods.
Until the Carabanchel Alto mural was presented, the only work of art on L11, which only had 3 stations at the beginning, was the one that had already existed since the 1980s in the Marcelo Usera vestibule of Plaza Elíptica.
It is an abstract mural by Raventós, who has signed many works for the Madrid Metro network, and is made of glazed ceramic.
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