TURKESA is from Zaragoza and is based in Barcelona. She is very little when she starts drawing and decides going to the School of Arts and Crafts in Zaragoza. There, while studying, she meets her first mentor and teacher Ignacio Mayayo, for whom she poses on some occasion and goes out for life painting. At the same time she begins tagging […]
Some projects are not existing anymore, but it’s worth sometimes to have a look at them and understand their value in the context of our actual situation. Galeria Oberta is one of them. Created by Difusor, the aim of Open Gallery project was to transform the Parc de les Aigües wall (Abd-el-Kader), into an exhibition space on the […]
Eledu nació en Barcelona nueve meses después del Dia de San Valentin de 1976, donde lleva residiendo en el barrio chino (también conocido por los modernillos como Raval) desde entonces. El último de tres hermanos, desde pequeño tuvo claro que como hijo de obrero inmigrante que era, debía estudiar, que era lo que le decían […]
Carlos Magone, also known as CB1MAG1, was born Lleida, a small city, west of Catalonia, Spain in 1976. He began playing with spray paint around 1995, but it is not until 1997 that he starts taking graffiti more serious. In 1999 he travels to London, England, where he continues writing graffiti and getting more and […]
“El sistema defensa els diners, no les persones. Per això som antisistema” “The system defends the money, not people. This is why we are antisystem” By Roc Blackblock “Aquest és el resultat final del nou mural del Puertohurraco . Perquè en una ciutat que aspira a ser una botiga potser les llums ens enlluernen i no […]
2015 started well. Peeta decided to come back to Barcelona, 23 years after seeing the first mural of his life while spending vacation in our city. He came back from this vacations to his hometown Venice and painted his first graffiti, which marked the starting point of the long and respected artistic career we know. During all these years he […]
Here is the new mural painted this week by our local (and international) artist SIXE PAREDES, in the village of Tàrrega, Catalunya. More about SIXE >> www.sixeparedes.com
Here are the last murals painted by the Barcelona based artists TXEMY and MURO in London, at the occasion of the collective show Kaleidoscope in Mya Gallery. ‘Kaleidoscope’ is an exhibition showcasing 12 hand-selected artists that have created, inspired and lead the Urban-Contemporary art movement in Spain over the past 10 years. New and original artworks on show […]
New piece by the Barcelona based artist TXEMY on the Murs Llures wall of Tres Chimeneas, metro Parallel. More about Txemy >> www.txemy.com
Let’s meet Rice, a young catalan artist based in Barcelona, actively painting in the streets of Barcelona already since few years. We first remarked him in the barrio of Gracia where he is mainly active, but you can see his colourful pieces in other central barrios like Raval or Born. Inspired by elder major local artists like BTOY, […]