"INSTINCT" FOR LABEL VALETTE FESTIVAL, FRANCE.

"Instinct" (30 x 18 m)

Go to an indeterminate place, safe, guided by the survival instinct. Living the present is that. Cranes make a migration trip each year, over 4,000 kilometers from North Africa to North Europe (and vice versa) guided solely by their instincts, to find less hostile, more friendly lands, where to spend the summer and breeding season.

At @labelvalettefestival they live in the present and that was his motto this year: "Demain c'est loin".
12 days of artistic residency in Pressigny-le le Pains, a rural area in the south of Paris where I have shared my time with incredible people, who despite everything, continue betting on art and culture outside also hostile areas and in difficult times.

We also made this limited edition digital print (A3 size) that is already sold!

Thanks to all of you with whom I spent my time there, painting and sharing.
Special thanks to Sebastien, Remi, Mathieu, Olive for all what you did and to all the artist who I met.
See you soon :)


Pictures by Fabe Collage

DIARIO DE UNA PAUSA

“La ausencia de movimiento.”

Between March 15 and May 24, 2020, during the period of confinement, I was collecting thoughts, ideas and conversations, collecting drawings, watercolors, pinhole photographs made with my Nopo Pan135, some paintings and random elements that were appearing as a result of the spontaneity and chance, when everything stopped. When time ceased to signify.

This project is born from doubts and changes, from the need to express myself with transparency. It is a self-published book with the support of La Granja Estudio Editorial. It consists of more than 70 pages in which all these elements coexist in the form of a diary following a timeline. It is now available in a limited edition of 200 copies, signed and serialized, which you can find here.

In addition, it is accompanied by a two-color risography (white offset 190g size A5).

BODEGAS LODEIROS

We started this project in September last year and it finally comes to light. I have had the pleasure of creating the new image for the Vermouth Lodeiros labels and boxes.

A local and family project, from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, that changes not only its image, to be a little more sustainable.
This has been the result of the work. We had to bring together the Galician essence, the sea and the mountains, the human being and sustainability in a sensitive and attractive way:

White vermut

Red vermut

The presentation event was held at Nora Tattoo (Santiago de Compostela).

You can find more about Bodegas Lodeiros here: https://bodegaslodeiros.com/vermut/

12+1 SANT VICENÇ DELS HORTS

Last week I’ve been painting in Sant Vicenç dels Horts, Barcelona, for the 12+1 project of Fundació Contorno Urbano.
In this project, two different artists paint the same two walls every two months. Sonja Ben and me were selected to start the this year.

This was my piece, which is called: “SOSTENER/HOLD”

To hold, support, balance... If our exerted force is higher or lower than the one we receive, the environment will be affected, in one way or another. That is why in equilibrium I find the best way to integrate, without shock, without exaggeration. Leaving a camouflaged footprint that will become part of that environment naturally, without destabilizing it.

Photos by Clara Antón

NAKED&SATED RESTAURANT

The last days of 2019 I worked on a special commission for Naked&Sated, in Madrid (C/ Serrano 110).
Curated by La Causa Galería.

Naked&Sated is a restaurant where all the dishes are made without added sugars, gluten free, with quality food and with a great final result, by Roberto ChefBosquet.
The idea was to work on these concepts, represent the human being naked and without complexes, designing a mural that would represent the values of Naked&Sated and decorate the entire interior facade.

This was the result:

Go and visit!

#25NOVEMBRE, MEMORIE URBANA

For the past 12 days, I have been painting four murals for the #25novembre project of Memorie Urbane, in Italy. This project aims to give visibility to the problem of gender violence through the representation of four important women to the history of Italy.

They are:

Margherita Hack, astrophysicist, science popularizer and activist.
Maria Montessori, was an educator, scientist, doctor, psychiatrist, philosopher, psychologist, devout Catholic, feminist, and Italian humanist. ¡
Luisa Levi, remembered mainly for being the first Italian doctor to publish a work about .sex education.
Sibilla Aleramo, an Italian author and feminist.

Photos: Arianna Barone

Luisa Levi, at Fondi.

Sibilla Aleramo, at Fondi.

Maria Montessori, at Terracina.

Margherita Hack, at Castelforte.

Thanks to all the people involved on this project,
see you soon!