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Recommendations

May’s Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by Franco Fasoli, Srger, Helen Bur and Samuel Salcedo

May 14, 2020

We’re back with our cultural recommendations made by artists in Urvanity News. Movies, documentaries, books, podcasts, inspiring artists and other ideas to watch, read and listen in May. The Argentinian artist Franco Fasoli, Sevillian Srger, British Helen Bur and from Barcelona Samuel Salcedo share with us their favorites. Check them out! Franco Fasoli aka Jaz (Buenos… Read more » Continue reading

Street Art Tour

Madrid Street Art Tour (Part II)

May 11, 2020

Route 2: Embajadores – Lavapies Distance: 2 km Time of route: 1 hour aprox. After our first Street Art walking tour discovering some of the large-scale mural interventions in the area of Fuencarral street and Chamberí neighborhood in Madrid (click here to check it out), we now move to the Downtown area to come across… Read more » Continue reading

10 minutes with

10 minutes with… Artez

May 7, 2020

He spent the first ten years of his painting career doing letters and graffiti in his hometown and it wasn’t until a few years ago when Artez (1988, Belgrade) introduced feminine characters and figurative elements in his artwork, mostly delicate women surrounded by plants and immerse into their daily routines. Today he’s one of the… Read more » Continue reading

Interview

Ryan Heshka: Freaks, comics and his latest clothing collection

May 4, 2020

Ryan Heshka (Manitoba, Canada, 1970) grew up watching movies and reading books that were way before his time. The 1930’s was his favorite decade and the original King Kong one of his favorite movies. He liked old comic books and vintage graphics but it wasn’t until his late 20’s when he started doing art and illustration… Read more » Continue reading

Street Art Tour

Madrid Street Art Tour (Part I)

April 30, 2020

Route 1: Fuencarral – Chamberí Distance: 4 km Time: 1h30 min Madrid city walls have their own life. Since 2017, up to 20 national and international artists have visited the capital of Spain to intervene walls of the city center invited by Urvanity Art in collaboration with the City Hall. Streets have merged with geometric… Read more » Continue reading

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: Laurence Vallières

April 27, 2020

Canadian artist Laurence Vallières (Québec City, 1986) is known for the creation of large-scale sculptures using recycled cardboard that she collects from the street wherever she travels. Gorillas, bears, rhinos, and elephants through which she explores human relationships, communication and digs into other political issues such as consumerism through a sustainable work and an environmental self-awareness. Just… Read more » Continue reading

Interview

Nicolás Romero’s (Ever) conscious footprint

April 23, 2020

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

10 minutes with

10 minutes with… Sabek

April 16, 2020

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

Recommendations

April’s Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by SpY, Sawe, Ampparito, Edgar Plans y Penique Productions

April 15, 2020

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

Studio Visit

Filippo Minelli: A photographic journal of a pursued isolation

April 13, 2020

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

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: Dunja Jankovic and Boris Hoppek

April 9, 2020

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

Interview

Inside D*Face’s Imaginary

April 6, 2020

‘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

Recommendations

March’s Recommendations: What to read, watch and listen by Sergio Mora, Juan Díaz-Faes, Grip Face and Deno

March 31, 2020

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

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: Ana Barriga

March 31, 2020

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

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News

Artistic initiatives and proposals in times of quarantine

March 27, 2020

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

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