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
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
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
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
In our fourth Urvanity Meets session we connect with the Portuguese artist and illustrator Diogo Machado, better known as Add Fuel (Cascais, 1980), to get into his studio located in Cascais. After graduating in graphic design and working for several years in design studios between Germany and Portugal, in 2007 Add Fuel decided to dedicate… Read more » Continue reading
The work of French artist Franck Noto aka Zest (Montpellier, 1980) has taken a substantial turn since its inception, more than 25 years ago, when he started painting graffiti on the streets of his hometown. Graffiti understood not as a form of vandalism, but as a design-oriented expression and a self-discharge in its purest sense…. Read more » Continue reading
Last Friday June 5th we celebrated World Environment Day. This has been the date chosen by the United Nations to -year after year- promote awareness and action for the protection and caring of our planet through pushing politicians and organizations to focus their fight on this common goal that also takes part through individual actions… Read more » Continue reading
Jan Kaláb (Prague, 1978) belongs to the oldest active generation of graffiti writers in the Czech Republic. Maybe you know him as Cakes, the alias under which he became one of the pioneers of the graffiti scene in his hometown, Prague with the DSK crew. In the year 2000 he traveled to New York were… Read more » Continue reading
Route 3: La Latina – Los Austrias Distance: 1 km Time of route: 40 min aprox. We have already toured through the neighborhoods of Chueca and Chamberí on our first Street Art route in the capital and we did the same during the second route through the Embajadores and Lavapiés areas. We have seen murals… Read more » Continue reading
In the past few years, we got used to seeing every week a bunch of freshly new painted walls by artists on the social media. Bali, New Dehli, Buenos Aires or LA… the most remote cities are the perfect frame for these large scale artworks. But these last months have been different. A lot of… Read more » Continue reading
The 90’s decade was the hip hop and urban culture Golden Age in New York but also the end of the ‘subway graffiti’ era, which in a natural way, gave birth to the bombing of the streets in the City by the graffiti writers and the establishment of some of these prolific train artist in… Read more » Continue reading
In the recent months it seems that the world has stopped. It has pressed the pause key and has left us halfway. Halfway of our professional projects, halfway of our planned trips, halfway of those wines with friends. Halfway of what was to come. But creativity doesn’t stop and the desire of the artists to… Read more » Continue reading
We get on a live video conference Madrid – Miami connection. On the other side of the line is Alexis Diaz (Puerto Rico, 1982) in his studio located in the Wynwood area, known for being one of the neighborhoods with more street art pieces per square feet. The visual artist and muralist, known for his… Read more » Continue reading
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
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