Home Sweet Home — Nego
Mural by Nego, 2017 · Torrellas, Zaragoza, Spain
Photo: Street Art Utopia archive (uploaded November 2021; the photographer is not named), the same photo as in the Street Art Utopia post. Full photograph shown.
Nego, an artist from Salamanca, painted the end wall of a house in Torrellas as a cardboard box with a ginger cat tearing its way out, for the village’s 2017 Arte en la Calle mural contest. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Nego, artist’s CV Checked Residents lent the walls and voted for the winners; Nego’s cat finished as a finalist. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 Checked
5 things to know
- Chosen from 14 proposalsFor the contest’s second edition the village received 14 projects, and the town council picked three artists to paint. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 Checked
- Residents’ walls, residents’ votesThe three murals went on facades that residents lent, and the residents then decided the prizes with their votes. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 Checked
- A finalist, second in the artist’s recordHeraldo names Xolaka the winner and Nego a finalist with “Home sweet home”; Nego’s own CV lists second prize in the II Concurso Arte en la Calle de Torrellas 2017. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Nego, artist’s CV Reported
- Part of a village open-air galleryTorrellas ran its mural contest in 2016, 2017 and 2018, then continued with the GUAU artist meetings, building what Interreg Europe calls an open-air museum. Interreg Europe, 3 Dec 2020 Checked
- Still on the wall in 2024Google Street View imagery from April 2024 shows the cat, the painted window frames and the Nego tag on the same end wall. Google Street View, Apr 2024 Checked
Where it is
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- Calle Constitución, Torrellas, a village of about 290 people in the Tarazona y el Moncayo district of Zaragoza province, Aragón. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Google Street View, Apr 2024 Checked
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- The walking report gives the address as C/ Constitución, 6. Se me cae la casa encima, 5 Mar 2019 Reported
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- The painted end wall faces the street and can be seen from the road, above a neighbouring garage. Google Street View, Apr 2024 Checked
Sightings
- 201722 Jul
Contest results · Heraldo de Aragón
- 201825 Mar
Photographed (camera date), published 2019
- 2024Apr
In place on Google Street View
Every stamp links to its source. Green stamps are dated pictures of the mural in place: a photo in a 2019 walking report whose camera date is 25 March 2018, and Google Street View imagery dated April 2024. The amber stamp is the 2017 news report on the contest results.
On the record
El arte se pasea por las calles de Torrellas
“Como finalistas quedaron Dilandao, de Zaragoza, con su Espíritu animal, y Nego, de Salamanca, con Home sweet home.”
English: “The finalists were Dilandao, from Zaragoza, with his Espíritu animal, and Nego, from Salamanca, with Home sweet home.”
El arte se pasea por las calles de Torrellas
“El Ayuntamiento seleccionó a tres artistas (se decidió ampliar los premios dada el nivel de los participantes), que crearon sus cuadros en tres fachadas que cedieron los vecinos, que después con sus votos decidieron los premios.”
English: “The town council selected three artists (it decided to extend the prizes given the level of the participants), who created their pictures on three facades lent by residents, who then decided the prizes with their votes.”
Un paseo por el arte urbano de Torrellas
“Mural «Sweet home» (Nego 2017, C/ Constitución, 6)”
English: “‘Sweet home’ mural (Nego 2017, 6 Calle Constitución)”. The photo caption in Sonia Millán’s walking report.
The facts
- Title
- Home sweet home, as the 2017 report gives it; the 2019 walking report captions it “Sweet home”. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Se me cae la casa encima, 5 Mar 2019 Checked
- Artist
- Nego (Jorge), an artist from Salamanca. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Nego, artist’s CV Checked
- Year
- 2017, for the second Arte en la Calle contest. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Nego, artist’s CV · Se me cae la casa encima, 5 Mar 2019 Checked
- Place
- End wall of a house on Calle Constitución, Torrellas, Zaragoza, Spain; number 6 according to the walking report. Se me cae la casa encima, 5 Mar 2019 · Google Street View, Apr 2024 Checked
- Medium
- Mural painted on a house facade. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Google Street View, Apr 2024 Checked
- Commissioner
- Torrellas town council, through its Arte en la Calle mural contest; residents voted on the prizes. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 Checked
- Award
- Finalist (Heraldo); second prize according to the artist’s CV. Heraldo de Aragón, 22 Jul 2017 · Nego, artist’s CV Reported
- Status
- Seen in April 2024 on Google Street View; we found no newer dated picture. Google Street View, Apr 2024 · Se me cae la casa encima, 5 Mar 2019 Checked
- Our photo
- From the Street Art Utopia archive, uploaded in November 2021; the photographer and date taken are not recorded. Street Art Utopia, 20 Oct 2026 Unconfirmed
Related
- Buildings That Won’t Behave (10 Photos): the SAU collection with Nego’s cardboard-box house
All sources (6)
Official
- Interreg Europe: “GUAU! (Galería de Usos de Arte Urbano). Torrellas, street art in a rural frame”, good practice by project MOMAr, published 3 December 2020. The mural contest (2016, 2017, 2018) and the GUAU meetings (2019, 2020); does not name individual murals.
Press
- Heraldo de Aragón: “El arte se pasea por las calles de Torrellas”, E. P. B., 22 July 2017. 14 projects, three artists selected, facades lent by residents who voted the prizes; Nego of Salamanca a finalist with Home sweet home.
Artist
- Nego: “Sobre mí”, the artist’s own CV. “2º Premio II Concurso Arte en la Calle de Torrellas 2017 (Zaragoza)”.
Photos
- Se me cae la casa encima: “Un paseo por el arte urbano de Torrellas”, Sonia Millán, 5 March 2019. Photo of the mural captioned “Mural «Sweet home» (Nego 2017, C/ Constitución, 6)”; camera date 25 March 2018.
- Google Street View, Calle Constitución, Torrellas, imagery dated April 2024. The mural in place.
Street Art Utopia
- Street Art Utopia: “Buildings That Won’t Behave (10 Photos)”, 20 October 2026. The SAU post with this work.
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