Argentine muralist Alfredo Segatori has painted a new eye-catching mural in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, celebrating the city’s agricultural heritage. Story by Buenos Aires Street Art.
On the moove – new mural in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, by Alfredo Segatori (photo © Ville d’Ettelbruck)
Segatori, who is well known for painting his Guinness World Record breaking mural in Buenos Aires that measures more than 3500m2, was invited by City of Ettelbruck in September to travel to Luxembourg to paint a mural that features a hyper-realistic cow peering out of a window.
Painting native flowers (photo © Ville d’Ettelbruck)
Ettelbruck is well-known for its walking trails around the rolling countryside and its famous annual agricultural fair celebrating rural life that includes cow competitions as well as exhibitions of local produce, tractors and other farm machinery.
Selfie time – Segatori in front of the mural (photo © Alfredo Segatori)
Advances (photo © Ville d’Ettelbruck)
Segatori explained what the title of the mural ‘La vaca que se fue volando de San Francisco llegó a Luxemburgo’ (or in English: ‘The cow that went flying from San Francisco has arrived in Luxembourg’) means. He said: “It refers to a 40 metres high mural featuring giant cows that I painted on silos in San Francisco, Córdoba, Argentina. This popular saying in Argentina is often used to refer to something impossible like ‘this will happen the day that the cows fly’.”
Cow greeting passers-by (photo © Alfredo Segatori)
And Segatori’s new artwork pays tribute to those traditions with a friendly cow greeting passers-by surrounded by native flowers. He created the mural using both spray cans and brushes.
Organiser Nathalie Ney with Alfredo Segatori in front of the completed mural (photo © Ville d’Ettelbruck)
The mural project was organised and curated by Nathalie Ney from Ville d’Ettelbruck with help from Matt Fox-Tucker of Buenos Aires Street Art, and was sponsored by the local government. Since 2017, City of Ettlebruck has sponsored more than 40 murals around the city painted by local and international street artists helping to turn the city into one of the best places to see street art in Luxembourg.
Segatori aka ‘Duke of La Boca’ in front of Vianden Castle, Luxembourg (photo © Alfredo Segatori)
A huge thanks to Nathalie and everyone in Ettelbruck for making this mural happen. For more information, check out Street Art Ettelbruck on Instagram.
All photos © Ville d’Ettelbruck & © Alfredo Segatori & published with permission.
