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September’s Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by GR170, Marat Morik, Arantxa Recio (Harsa) and Oscar Llorens

Sept. 1, 2020

Goodbye August, hello September. We help you overcome these “back to school” days with some of the best cultural recommendations from Spanish and International contemporary urban artists and illustrators. From the comics of the publishers Autsaider Comics or Fulgencio Pimentel recommended by GR170, to some classic love-story films that we review with the Russian artist… Read more » Continue reading

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Team Sport in times of quarantine

Aug. 6, 2020

We’ve already talked about the project Change Is A Team Sport. But this time we would like to present you a part we’ve not covered yet. Change is a Team Sport is a project based entirely on the principal of teamwork, of meeting and working together with other people, of exchange, of interpersonal interaction. But… Read more » Continue reading

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Studio Visit: Doma Collective (Julian Chu)

July 30, 2020

  DOMA Collective burst onto the urban art scene in Buenos Aires in 1998 with its stencils, installations and guerrilla campaigns with a touch of irony and absurdity. Mariano Barbieri, Julian Manzelli, Matías Vigliano and Orilo Blandini were the members who gave shape to this reactionary artistic proposal, loaded with political content where they tackled… Read more » Continue reading

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The challenge of Urban Art festivals

July 27, 2020

Asalto Festival in Zaragoza, Rexenera in Galicia and Parees in Oviedo are the three flagship festivals of muralism and art in the public space in Spain. Artists such as Aryz, Case Maclaim, Lidia Cao or Bosolleti have left their trace at Rexenera, representing the urban scene from Galician to international artists and putting Carballo (A… Read more » Continue reading

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10 minutes with… Antonyo Marest

July 23, 2020

Palm trees, flamingoes, shapes and figures taken from elements found in the nature combining pastel tones and more strident ones conform artist Antonyo Marest (Alicante, 1987), who takes us back to the 1920s and the traditional Art Deco architecture in its most contemporary version and with a Mediterranean taste. His work ranges from painting to… Read more » Continue reading

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This summer’s most refreshing shows

July 20, 2020

From Paris to Barcelona and from Hamburg to Tokyo we go on a summer tour through some of the most refreshing exhibitions by following some of our favorite artists: Zest, Miss Van, Ana Barriga, Invader or Javier Calleja. Lets face the heat immersing ourselves into some art!   Joan Cornellà At Galerie Arts Factory (Paris)… Read more » Continue reading

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Zoonchez: A colorful Mediterranean (im)balance

July 16, 2020

Art with a Mediterranean flavor, cubist inspiration and vitalist compositions where his characters try to find a balance between superimposed elements and full color strokes. Whether on canvas, on a wall, wood, resins or ceramics, the works of the Madrid artist Rubén Sánchez (Madrid, 1979) better known as Zoonchez, are easily recognizable by his energetic… Read more » Continue reading

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Summer Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by Coté Escrivá, Mina Hamada, Theic Licuado and AkaCorleone

July 13, 2020

We are back this month with a new fresh edition of cultural recommendations by some of our favorite international artists. This July we sneaked into the black and white cartoon world of the Spanish illustrator Coté Escrivá to learn about the vintage Disney comic books that inspire him, we review the full-color artwork of the Japanese… Read more » Continue reading

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Studio Visit: 2501

July 9, 2020

Jacopo Ceccarelli (Milan, 1981), better known as 2501 is an Italian multidisciplinary artist born in Milan. He pursued film and cinema studies and very early he started experimenting with lines, shapes and motion in different media such as painting, installations, sculpture, photography and film. In his twenties he moved to Sao Paolo in Brazil, where… Read more » Continue reading

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Change is a Team Sport: Mur0ne and Marina Capdevilla (Part II)

July 6, 2020

A project curated by Urvanity Projects and B-Murals for adidas Originals. Artistic freedom, creativity, collective work, pieces made for exhibitions, artistic interventions… A collective project of Urban Art, but above all, great teamwork. Thanks to the team involved in the project and everybody who participated, Change is a Team Sport comes to an end with the… Read more » Continue reading

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What about the galleries?

July 2, 2020

In a three-way conversation with the directors and founders of three galleries in Spain, Mexico and the US we sit down to talk about the situation that each one is experiencing in their city, the future perspectives of the galleries and art in its more technological version. Ignacio Reig, from Furiosa Gallery in Madrid, Gerardo… Read more » Continue reading

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10 minutes with… Íñigo Sesma

June 29, 2020

As if we were in an American road-movie or in the Kerouac’s ‘On the road’ scenes, the Basque artist living in Madrid, Íñigo Sesma (San Sebastián, 1987), takes us on a trip to Middle America, its suburbs, its emptiness and its characters thanks to his paintings. Through a work of photographic documentation, Sesma portrays the… Read more » Continue reading

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Change is a Team Sport: an Urban Art collective project (Part I)

June 25, 2020

A project commissioned by Urvanity and B.Murals. During the months of March, April and May, when the world seemed to be on pause, something was still cooking in Barcelona. In fact, it started some weeks before the lockdown and during this period, it stayed alive. We are talking about “Change is a Team Sport”, a… Read more » Continue reading

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Galleries are back!

June 22, 2020

Quarantine has had us all glued into our phones and screens. At least during these months, our way of seeing and buying art has changed, and galleries have taken advantage of this period of confinement to renew and tune up. Now, while seating in our couch we can virtually visit and get immerse into the… Read more » Continue reading

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June’s Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by PichiAvo, Elian Chali, Remed and Brothers of Light

June 18, 2020

Yet another month we talked to artists from all around the globe to collect their most personal cultural recommendations. This June, we listen to reggae and dub music, we immerse ourselves in literature classics such as “The Master and Margarita” or “The Little Prince”, we review the series “Fargo” and discover documentaries on ‘cosmogony’ and human… Read more » Continue reading