2018 Category

Roc studied Graphic Design at Escola Elisava in Barcelona and Illustration at Escola d’Art Serra i Abella in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. He started his career drawing and tattooing in the late nineties. He began writing graffiti in this graphical atmosphere around 1999. As an active member collaborating with social movements, he used graffiti art as a com tool for the community, keeping the social side of his art ’til today. Roc gives his creativity and his graphic language away to the people in order to transform the walls in loudspeakers for neighbors, associations and social movements. His artwork is a meeting point between urban art and social commitment.

Roc will be painting from September 6 to 10 on the centenary of Trubia’s Casino in Trubia.

https://www.instagram.com/rocblackblock/

The mural made in Trubia, “Forjando comunidad”, is made for the centenary of the Trubia Casino. The piece recovers the collective memory and vindicates the value of this social space created under the wing of the now-closed weapons factory located in the town.

Some photos of the participatory process:

Young artist, dedicated especially to mural painting for more than 8 years. Born in A Coruña in 1992 but from Madrid of adoption. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Much of his work revolves around the natural and organic, in the dialectic between these elements and the landscape, that is where it makes sense.

He began as many to paint graffiti when he was just 13 years old and has not left the large format since then, adding new tools and extending his work through national and international territory to places like Kathmandu, Nepal, where he also participates in a social and educational project through art since 2015.

Although most of his interventions are portraits, he is currently working on a new project where the migratory movement is the axis. Birds or mammals in motion are the protagonists of his works and, in a metaphorical way, he uses them to talk about the trip; of a journey in search of a better future and survival, of a journey without return and of research and knowledge throughout it.

https://www.taquen.es/

Portuguese visual artist and illustrator Kruella d’Enfer (1988) has been delighting us with her enchanted visual world, evoking a deep sense of wonder with the fantastical, benevolent creatures that inhabit its dark and mysterious corners, be they mystical wolves or magical foxes, bewitching tigers or shamanistic deer. At ease painting both large-scale murals and intimist works on paper and canvas, her use of contrasting colours and geometric shapes brings age-old legends and myths to life, composing fantastic stories with a universal appeal. She has been exhibiting her work in solo and collective shows since 2010.

http://www.kruelladenfer.com

Javier Robledo, known in the world of graffiti as Xav, is a self-taught artist born in Gijón, Asturias.
He started painting in 2005. His start in graffiti was based on simple letters and wild style.
It was in 2013 when his works began to take more strength, specializing in a different style of realism with a touch of digital drawing that characterizes him in all his creations.

He currently works as a tattoo artist, resides in Asturias and travels the world realising his two passions: tattoos and graffiti.

Instagram of xav is: https://www.instagram.com/xavtattoo/

Twee Muizen is a duo; Denis and Cris. Denis studied fine arts and Cris fashion design. They got together, they fell in love and working in a Dutch warehouse they decided that it was best to make dolls and change that corporate store for a smaller one but with more life. They went back to Galicia and brought the name with them, “Twee Muizen”, which in Dutch means two mice. Two mice that treat each doll as if it were a sculpture, an artistic object. Thus, each doll you buy will be a unique piece, designed, drawn, cut, sewn and sent by Cris and Denis. Both are from Galicia and were raised in villages near Santiago de Compostela, towns with lots of mountains, animals and nature, and this is something that can be seen in their work.

They currently live and work in Barcelona and their studio is located in the neighborhood of Sant Pere. In addition to the workshop they also have a part of the gallery where they show their latest pieces, both art toys and illustration and paintings.

Twee Muizen were the winners of the Leopoldo Alas Clarín contest of the 2017 edition of the Parees festival and will show their work.

Nicolas Sanchez, AlfAlfA. 1983, Merida, Venezuela.

Large format muralist, painter and draftsman.

Self-taught from an early age in drawing, he grew up in a stained glass workshop learning the family trade. He studied plastic arts at Caracas, 2000 – 2002 and from 2005 to 2012 at Bellas Artes, Montevideo.

Since 2008 he has focused his activity in the field of urban art, painting first small and medium interventions and then murals of increasing scale.

His work is based on the exploration of fantasy as a refuge, mythology and the rescue of local laws and traditions, as well as the creation of his own bestiaries and invented mythologies. He has had a variety of individual and collective exhibitions in Montevideo and the interior of Uruguay.

Over the last 7 years he has traveled thanks to scholarships, residencies, festivals and exchanges related to his artistic work and has made murals, live interventions and individual and collective exhibitions in Caracas, Buenos Aires, New York, Berlin, England, Poland, Spain, India , Bosnia and Croatia.

He currently lives and works as an independent artist in Montevideo.

Colectivo Licuado is a duo of Uruguayan artists, Florencia and Camilo. 8 years ago they began to paint murals in the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay, and later they began to explore new horizons in other countries of the world. They have made several trips to South America, Europe and Asia painting several murals in each place. They research the environment where the painting is going to be carried out, drawing on the place, the culture, the aesthetics and the customs of each location. Today they focus on mural painting, travelling, and exploring new smaller formats like canvases which continue to explore the same themes used in the murals.

It inspires them to know new cultures and customs of other countries, to be in contact with different environments and people with other types of traditions, and this makes them grow as people and artists. In terms of painting, they are influenced by classical art, from which they take references in terms of composition, lighting, poses and clothing. They observe the use of symbolism in art, and are inspired by mythologies and stories to which they bring a new contemporary vision.

They work thematically, on cultural diversity, women, stories that belong to the place of intervention, and in this way a sense of belonging is created and the local population identifies with the work. The focus of the work is on people, driven by the life of characters portrayed in ways that they themselves feel identified. It is a way of sensitizing our species.

When traveling and getting to know new cultures, traditions, stories from all over the world, experiences and lives, historical and cultural knowledge is generated. The idea is to transmit part of those experiences and share them through the image. Their works are easy to understand, appeal acrosss audiences, and that makes them special.

Website: http://www.colectivolicuado.com

Participatory process

The theme proposal for their mural project revolved around the figure of women in traditional Asturian culture and folklore.
They met the group of pandereteras “Nun tamos Toes” who play traditional Asturian songs but with updated lyrics with an activist and feminist slant.

The whole composition refers to the figure of the woman: the nocturnal colors, the tambourines symbolizing the moon …

Andrea Ravo Mattoni was born in Varese in 1981 into a family with strong ties to the world of art. His father, Carlo Mattoni, was a conceptual and behavioral artist, an illustrator and a graphic artist; his uncle Alberto, known as Matal, was the illustrator and creator of the character of Lillibeth; his grandfather Giovanni Italo, painter, was the illustrator of Liebig and Lavazza trading cards.

He started spray-painting in 1995; founded Crew HBM together with Vine; and subsequently started to work with Seacreative, Refreshink, Borse and Kraser.

In 2003 he founded, in Milan, the BAG factory, a group of artists with headquarters at Bovisa. At the same time, he attended a painting course at the Brera Beaux Arts Academy. In 2008 he defected from the factory and worked as an assistant of the editor Manuela Gandini in the Artandgallery gallery.

http://andrearavomattoni.com