Julio Anaya Cabanding

Julio Anaya Cabanding (b. Malaga, Spain 1987) is a graduate of Fine Arts from the Univeristy of Malaga, 2018. His art reinterprets the works of the great classical masters by painting on discarded and deteriorated cardboard, collected from abandoned places and rehabilitated in his studio in order to give them a new identity in a different context. The contrast of this results in the decontextualization of those rigid structures established within the art world. In successfully painting Great works on discarded cardboard, Julio calls into question what it is that we truly value in art.

His practice of painter and street artist Julio Anaya Cabanding pre- sents a challenge to art history. On dog-eared pieces of cardboard and graffiti-laden walls, he reproduces these masterpieces of Western art. In contrast with their environments and fragile substrates, his trompe-l’oeils establish trans-historical dialogues with the works of past masters. Irreverent in practice yet respectful in technique, Anaya Cabanding’s copies examine ideas to do with authorship, authenticity and ownership as well with the remits of the institutions that govern the worlds of historical and contemporary art such as conservation and transmission.