He is known as Eversiempre for the simple, random fact that when he created his Instagram account, “Ever”, his actual artistic name, was already taken. Nicolás Romero (Buenos Aires, 1985) started twenty years ago now, signing and doing graffiti throw ups in the streets of his native Buenos Aires, a city experiencing the hangover of an… Read more » Continue reading
Animals and the color black are his trademark. Cats, tigers, wolves, panthers, snakes and other powerful birds are the main characters in the murals, installations or artwork he develops in his studio. Sabek (Madrid, 1985), who was harden in Madrid’s graffiti scene since he was a youngster, is a master in… Read more » Continue reading
SpY Since the early 80’s the streets have been SpY’s playground. Enigmatic and anonymous in equal parts, he transforms the public space in his own experimentation lab and a direct communication channel with the viewers through appropriation, transformation and replica of the urban elements he finds. Observant and ironic, the artist plays with the surprise… Read more » Continue reading
Last winter, Filippo Minelli (Italy, 1983) traveled to Portugal to go find his personal and self-imposed retreat. In an industrial area somewhere in between the Spanish and Portuguese border, the artist has pinpointed his quiet spot for work and living. «I’m actually on the Portuguese side, I’m in the middle of el Alentejo and I… Read more » Continue reading
Artists Dunja Jankovic (Croatia, 1980) and Boris Hoppek (Germany, 1970) have built up their headquarters in the heart of Poble Nou, in Barcelona, more than two years ago. After living for a few years in the Island of Lošinj, were she’s originally from, they spent a few months travelling through Spain in Boris’s van before… Read more » Continue reading
‘Deface’: to damage the appearance of something especially by drawing or writing on it. «It was given to me by friends long time ago from painting graffiti in the early days», says Dean Stockton alias, D*Face (London, 1978) regarding his name. «I was painting characters, faces… That became ‘these-faces’, which sounded like D-faces. I like… Read more » Continue reading
After a few days locked up in quarantine we have almost seen, read and listened to it all. This is why we have spoken to some national visual artists, illustrator, designer and tattoo artists to get inside their worlds and get to know what inspires them and a few of their favorites books, documentaries and… Read more » Continue reading
Shelves packed with porcelain figures of which only a few of them will be lucky enough to be on her next artwork, masks brought from Mexico or from flea markets all around the world, spray cans, oil paint and Pepsi, the cat, are the main inhabitants of Ana Barriga’s studio in Madrid. But is her… Read more » Continue reading
It’s when facing big crises, when society tends to show its most creative side. That capacity to renovate and adapt to new ways of using everyday tools and media. That’s precisely what happened during these days, where most of us are in quarantine: artists, galleries and other artistic and cultural agents who have seen their… Read more » Continue reading
“De aquellas hierbas, estas flores” de SRGER en Swinton Gallery (Madrid) Inauguración: Viernes 17 de enero 2020 El artista sevillano Sergio Gómez inaugura su primera exposición en solitario en la Swinton Gallery. Srger reivindica su origen en el graffiti y su capacidad creativa abarca tanto la pintura, la fotografía, las instalaciones y el video-art como las… Read more » Continue reading
2019 ha estado lleno de arte y muros y os lo hemos ido enseñando en nuestras redes día a día. Aquí os dejamos con una selección de nuestros favoritos del año. Continue reading
La semana pasada estuvimos en Miami visitando algunas de las mejores ferias de arte contemporáneo a nivel internacional. Art Basel Miami, Untitled Art Fair, Scope Art, New Art Dealers Alliances – NADA Miami, Pulse, Design Miami o Art Miami y Context Art fueron algunas de las que recorrimos además de numerosos aperturas especiales de museos y… Read more » Continue reading
En pleno corazón de Miami, en el barrio de Wynwood conocido mundialmente por sus paredes plagadas de graffitis y piezas de Street art, se encuentra Wynwood Walls: el primer museo al aire libre de arte urbano. Inaugurado en 2009 por Tony Goldman, uno de los mayores inversores en bienes raíces de Estados Unidos, es hoy un… Read more » Continue reading
Llega a la galería milanesa Antonio Colombo la exposición ‘Almas de acero’ comisariada por Francesca Luzzana y Federico Stanzani desarrollada en torno a 15 bicicletas icónicas que gracias a sus soluciones tecnológicas a lo largo de la historia han marcado la evolución de ciclismo moderno y contemporáneo del 1919 a 2019. Numerosos objetos, documentos y videos… Read more » Continue reading
Okuda & Remed juntos en París La galería parisina Adda & Sarto acaba de inaugurar una exposición en colaboración entre dos artistas y además amigos: Okuda San Miguel y Remed. Se conocieron en los 2000, uno de Santander y el otro francés de Lille, pero fue Madrid la ciudad que les adoptó y donde cada… Read more » Continue reading