ESCIF
(Valencia, 1980)
Muralist painter. Active in the street art scene since the late 90s. His work focuses mainly on the city redefinition, based on the maxim that life will always be more interesting than art. With a sharp drawing of clear lines and sober colors, his paintings question current struggles, resistance movements, the challenges of capitalism and the environmental problems that cloud our times. Sometimes, his paintings are presented as minimal gestures, which interfere with reality, to remind us of the beauty of everything that surrounds us.
Much of his work has been developed in Valencia, his hometown. He has also carried out a large number of international projects in different urban contexts, always in direct contact with the public and the reality of the context.
In recent years we can highlight his interventions in art centers such as Saatchi Gallery (London, 2023); Perrotin Shanghai (China, 2023); Power Station museum in Shanghai (China, 2016), IVAM (Valencia, 2017), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2018), CCCC (Valencia, 2020); or his participation in events such as the Biennial of Contemporary African Art (Dakar, 2014), OFF Manifesta X (Saint Petersburg 2014), in the project "Dismaland" organized by Banksy in Weston-super-Mare (England, 2015), or the Lyon Biennial (France, 2019).
He has just published his book "Los cimientos de la armonía y de la invención", a compilation of his last 12 years of artwork.