We dive into some soul and funk rhythms with Iranian brothers artists Icy & Sot’s favorite playlist and discover with them several documentaries of key figures in the art world. We go visit the latest exhibition at La Alhóndiga in Bilbao with the illustrator and ceramist Raisa Álava and we get into the pages of… Read more » Continue reading
Are you planning an European getaway this summer? We bring you the best exhibitions of the season with new and other big names such as Carlos Pesudo, Franco Fasoli Jaz, Barry MacGee, Nuria Mora, AkaCorleone, Matth Velvet, Bahati Simoens and Rafa Macarrón. Refresh yourself with the best proposals of current art by embarking on the… Read more » Continue reading
Again this year, Urvanity has been filled with artists that were presented at the fair for the first time, emerging and established artists, that have now become part of our universe. We take a walk among the twenty-seven participating galleries this year to discover some of the works of the artists who have surprised us… Read more » Continue reading
Urvanity LAB has a new home: our latest creative laboratory has moved to the El Corte Inglés in Arapiles, in the Chamberí district of Madrid. Under the guidelines of the decorator and interior designer Lázaro Rosa Violán, the new outlet centre for leading brands in Arapiles has become an urban and ground-breaking space with… Read more » Continue reading
Urvanity, now in its fifth edition, from May 27th to 30th at the COAM in Madrid, has consolidated its position as the meeting place for New Contemporary Art. This year, for the first time, the fair presents the Urvanity 2021 Acquisition and Residency Awards for the artists participating in this edition, together with some of… Read more » Continue reading
Irony, skepticism and above all humor inhabit Paco Pomet’s universe (Granada, 1970). His monochrome works with focused points of light make them burn in full-color flames and glowing suns and moons brighten the game of whites and grays. “Art has become a refuge from the dystopian world we live in,” says Pomet, while the virtuosity… Read more » Continue reading
Attention artists! The Madrid City Council and Foro de Empresas por Madrid are launching today the urban art contest in Colonia Marconi, in Villaverde (Madrid) for national and international artists. Here we tell you everything about it! What is the contest about? The Madrid City Council, through the Área de Gobierno de Economía, Innovación y Empleo and… Read more » Continue reading
Japanese artist Haroshi creates unique hand-carved wooden pieces from various used skateboards glued together. Haroshi’s studio located in the center of Tokyo, is a very curious place, we could say it is a skateboard junkyard, it is full of hundreds of skateboards (ready to be recycled), tools and machinery with which Haroshi has created a… Read more » Continue reading
Martín Kazanietz revisits the mobile photo gallery aesthetics to transfer it into his paintings. The installation at the Institut Français in Madrid by La Causa Galería allows us to move forward in the presented works as if it was a real Instagram stories reel. Martin Kazanietz, also known as Gordopelota, comes to work his studio work… Read more » Continue reading
On January 29th, Italian artist Guido Bisagni (Alessandria, 1978), better known as 108, inaugurated “To the Clouds”, his latest solo exhibition at Swinton Gallery in Madrid. A show that gathers around thirty new and original works on paper and on canvas that revolve around the concept of “Orphism”. Raised in the graffiti scene as one… Read more » Continue reading
The Urvanity team has reviewed some of the 2020 favorite murals. Some of them have been chosen for the message, others for the technique, others for pure aesthetics, color and beauty and others for the promise of what these artists will soon have to say. Nelio, Broken Fingaz, Daniel Muñoz, Gleo, Eltono… are some of the… Read more » Continue reading
Kaws, Aryz, Banksy, Waone Interesni Kazki… We go through some of the greatest book launches of these last months and we will give you a preview of the last publishing news to be released in 2021. Take note to update your book collection and make sure you write them down in this year gift list!… Read more » Continue reading
We move to the sound of jazz music with the Spanish artist Rosh, we dive into the pages of the latest novels read by the American Kristen Liu-Wong, we review some of the greatest cinema classics with the Swiss duo Nevercrew and catch up on Japanese anime with the Madrid-based illustrator and comic book artist J.R…. Read more » Continue reading
Playful, complex and brightly colored abstract murals and canvas, the Californian artist and Florida based, MOMO (San Francisco, 1974) has been experimenting with shapes, form and color for more than twenty years now. It wasn’t graffiti what led him into the Street Art scene, but his multiple travels around the globe, which he planned and… Read more » Continue reading
“Masks of a Millennial Generation” by the Majorcan artist Grip Face (Palma de Mallorca, 1989) was inaugurated at the Cerquone Gallery in Madrid last November 19. An evolution of the work in which he has been immersed for the last six years around the face and its complexion: «I have encompassed this project around four… Read more » Continue reading
