Milagros Correch

Milagros Correch (born 1991, Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires), better known as Milu Correch, is an Argentine painter and muralist recognized internationally for her large scale murals and illustrations. Her work can be found in cities in Argentina and around the world.

Career

2011-2012 Correch began her career as an artist in 2011 painting a street mural in Buenos Aires as she saw her home town getting filled with murals and fell in love with the format.

2013 The following year, Correch collaborated in CULM: Construir un Lugar Mejor Sin Destruir Lo que Tenemos (in English: Building a better place without destructing what we have), a project founded by Santiago Gonzales Villagos that aimed to disseminate urban street art by regenerating landscapes and to bring visibility to the town of Quintanar de la Orden in Toledo, Spain. The thematic of the project was Don Quijote de La Mancha as to represent and tribute the identity of the municipality derived from Cervantes' story.

Correch's participation on the project resulted in the immense mural of Dulcinea del Toboso, the character that symbolizes Don Quijote's motive for all his knight-errant adventures. She decided to portray Dulcinea as the main event, supporting Don Quijote and Sancho Panza on one shoulder, and three mills interpreting La Mancha on the other. The production of the mural took six days in August 2013. This was the first big mural painted by Correch and measured approximately 20x15 meters tall. It is also the biggest illustration of Dulcinea in the world.

In September 2013, Correch painted another mural for CULM, this time in El Toboso, a town 7 kilometers away from Quintanar de la Orden, where she had created Dulcinea Sueña la Mancha on the town's water tower.

2014-2016 In 2015, Correch painted the mural Disciples of Peter Pan - superagent children redeeming adults of the absurd, as part of aDNA collective in Rome, Italy. That same year, Correch exhibited original drawings and prints for two days at Bistro in Pigneto, Rome, Italy which was also curated by aDNA Collective. Her work was for sale in order to support her third trip in Europe since she was invited to create murals in various cities of Spain, Germany and Belgium.

In 2016, in addition to painting murals in Buenos Aires, she also painted in Sweden and Italy.

2017 Her mural Oxido in the neighbourhood of Los Alamos, Quilmes, realized for the project Pinta tu barrio, was recognized as one of the seven best murals in the world for the month of November 2017, by Netherlands' Street Art Today. This mural was part of Entre Cenizas (in English: Among ashes) Correch's first exposition.

Correch was invited to participate to CURA - Circuito URbano de Arte in December 2017, to create a large scale mural that would mark the 120th anniversary of the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The mural entitled Ajo y Vino illustrates two masked naked women dancing around bottles of wine, and being surrounded by crows. The background of the artwork was painted by three Brazilian pixadores: DIC, DOXS and PAVOR. The piece is found on the facade of the Garagem Sao Jose, a 28-story building which is now part of one of the tallest murals in Latin America, covering a surface of 1,750 square meters.

Ajo y Vino also marked the first mural of Correch's witches series:

Continuing the witches series, Correch painted two murals at the NuArt Aberdeen Festival in Scotland: Conjuro contra la corona and Después del Aquelarre. Both represent the oppression of women persecuted for witchcraft or sorcery in the late 16th and early 17th century. Correch paints the woman in both murals using dark colours and covering their faces as to create somber hidden subjects that reflect the neglect of women's rights and the dehumanization of witches. Hypatia Mujeres de Ciencia of UPV Valencia, Spain Ñatinta19 Perros Sueltos La Paz, Bolivia Brujas del viento Festival Urbano Curva Rio Grande, Tierra del fuego, Argentina Exilio Sullair Cultura Barracas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Conjuro contra el amo Rexenera Fest Carballo, Spain

Hecate Draw The Line Campobasso, Italy Conjuro contra inseguridades Muro Urbano Berazategui, Buenos Aires, Argentina Conjuro de naranja Mésquemurs Puerto Sagunto, Spain Conjuro para una estabilidad Rexenera Fest Carballo, Spain Contra todo privilegio Poliniza Dos Valencia, Spain Conjuro contra la corona NuArt Aberdeen Scotland Después del Aquelarre NuArt Aberdeen Scotland Otro Crystal Ship Oostende, Belgium

Ajo y Vino CURA Belo Horizonte, Brazil Óxido Pinta tu barrio Los Alamos, Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pasillo In The Wall We Trust Airola, Italy Fiat 126 Incipit Project Sapri, Italia Chatarra Calle Libre Vienna, Austria Abrazo We all Write Ahtopol, Bulgaria Te Helsinki Urban Art Helsinki, Finland Hecha la ley... Helsinki Urban Art Helsinki, Finland Cortejo: Interpretation based on Cristina Peri Rossi's poem "Cortejo" Buenos Aires, Argentina Trabajos de Costura Pinta Argentina Barrio La Habana, Villa Marteli, Buenos Aires, Argentina Yeresadé Pinta Argentina Los Piletones, Soldati, Buenos Aires, Argentina Empoderada y poderosa Nogoya y la via, Buenos Aires, Argentina Cuidadora de Cuervos Casa Dassein Buenos Aires, Argentina Cara de Piedra Ifo Center Bromölla, Sweden Cría Cuervos Halmstad Arena Halmstad, Sweden Mascaras Nassjö, Sweden Nudo Bonito Contest Art (Impronte 2016) Bonito, Italy BOMBO Tronador y Nahuel Huapi, Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires

Kosmo - Utopia KAT (Created with Mariela Ajras) Louvain La-neuve, Belgium Paraguas Caldas y Chorrarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina Libro Pinto La Isla Isla Maciel, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina Arbol Incipit Project Sapri, Italy Alicia Duerme Mechelen Muurt Belgium Aunque vengan los lobos Memorie Urbane Arce, Italy Máscara (Created with Pablo Herrero) Salamanca, Spain Yoshimoto Girona, Spain Discípulos de Peter Pan aDNA Collective Rome, Italy

Jugetero or Geppetto Galería Urbana de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain El lobo no está Besares, Buenos Aires, Argentina Literatura Muropolis Mendoza, Argentina Cuervo Street Art Today Amsterdam, Netherlands Marionetas IBUG (Created with Diego Cirulli) Zwickau, Germany Reina y Hermanas Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dulcinea Sueña la Mancha CULM: Construir un Lugar Mejor Sin Destruir Lo que Tenemos El Toboso, Toledo, Spain Dulcinea del Toboso CULM: Construir un Lugar Mejor Sin Destruir Lo que Tenemos Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo, Spain