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October’s Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by Mario Mankey, Lula Goce, Sobekcis and Lusesita

Oct. 9, 2020

We’re back another month with one of our favourite and most visited articles: artist’s cultural recommendations. We move to the tropical rhythms of Space Surimi brought to us by artist Mario Mankey, we immerse ourselves in classic lectures such as “The Flower of Evil” or “Divine Comedy” that inspire Lula Goce’s work, we revisit cartoon… Read more » Continue reading

Art Collecting

Inside Jaime Colsa’s art collection

Oct. 5, 2020

Jaime Colsa (Cantabria, 1972) has been an art collector since he was a teenager and his hobby has not stopped. In his personal collection he treasures works of Spaniards among which are Kepa Garraza, Eugenio Merino or Marina Vargas: always artists with whom he has a personal relationship. It has been precisely this love for… Read more » Continue reading

Galleries

What about the galleries? Vol. II

Oct. 1, 2020

Once again we bring together the directors of three Spanish art galleries to survey and talk about the current situation the art world is experiencing, after our return from these weird period of summer days (see ‘What about the galleries? Vol. I’). The wheel is turning back again after a long period of decisive stagnation for… Read more » Continue reading

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: Fidia Falaschetti

Sept. 28, 2020

Named after Phidia, one of the most important Greek sculptors and painters, Fidia Falaschetti (Civitanova, Italy, 1977) grew up in a very creative and artistic family on the Italian east coast. On his early years he was inspired by the street art and the hip hop scene and ended up studying Production Design. After working for… Read more » Continue reading

Interview

Edoardo Tresoldi’s latest visual poem in Italy

Sept. 24, 2020

It is one of the most beautiful poetic actions done in recent times. An alliance between materials and the surrounding landscape, a union between matter and nature. In an idyllic setting, on the coastline of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria, right at the tip of the Italian ‘boot’ and overlooking the Sicilian coast,… Read more » Continue reading

10 minutes with

10 minutes with… Amaia Arrazola

Sept. 21, 2020

She’s an artist for as long as she can remember, former publicist as an occupational incursion and illustrator as a way of life. And since almost two years ago she’s Ane’s mother. Amaia Arrazola (Vitoria, 1984) paints murals, writes books, illustrates and designs vignettes for magazines or book covers and draws and constructs in the… Read more » Continue reading

Art to conquer the space

Sept. 17, 2020

And no, we don’t mean outer space. No constellations, no planets. We are talking about the public, the private, the space in general: about art in the city. Museums, soccer stadiums, restaurants, zebra crossings or tunnels for pedestrians. The city bows down to the artists in order to value their work in the public (and… Read more » Continue reading

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: 3ttman (Louis Lambert)

Sept. 14, 2020

Louis Lambert (Lille, 1978) aka 3ttman or “Trois Tête Man” from the French “man with three heads” was born in the French city of Lille, but has been living and having his studio in Tenerife for a few years now. Since he was a child he has been passionate about painting, however the street and its idiosyncrasy… Read more » Continue reading

Interview

Javi Calleja: When the limit is called Asia

Sept. 10, 2020

Javi Calleja (Málaga, 1971) started to become recognized in the national Spanish circuit of galleries and museums with his work of “minimal sculptures”, but it has been his drawings and paintings of naïve looking children with big watery eyes that have taken him to the top. The Malaga-born artist, with a degree in Fine Arts… Read more » Continue reading

Exhibitions: what will be on display this September

Sept. 7, 2020

Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2020 From September 10th to November 11th From Thursday 10th to Sunday September 13th, Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2020 will be back kicking off the new Madrid’s art season. After several tumultuous months where many of the galleries have had to cancel or reschedule their exhibitions Apertura manages to celebrate another… Read more » Continue reading

10 minutes with

10 minutes with… Marina Capdevila

Sept. 3, 2020

If walking through Barcelona, Cancun, Miami, Ostend or Los Angeles you come across a mural with the whole range of oranges and a bunch of cool grannies, then there’s no doubt about it. You are looking at a work by the Catalan artist Marina Capdevila (Falset, 1985), one of the most international artists in our… Read more » Continue reading

Recommendations

September’s Recommendations: What to watch, read and listen by GR170, Marat Morik, Arantxa Recio (Harsa) and Oscar Llorens

Sept. 1, 2020

Goodbye August, hello September. We help you overcome these “back to school” days with some of the best cultural recommendations from Spanish and International contemporary urban artists and illustrators. From the comics of the publishers Autsaider Comics or Fulgencio Pimentel recommended by GR170, to some classic love-story films that we review with the Russian artist… Read more » Continue reading

News

Team Sport in times of quarantine

Aug. 6, 2020

We’ve already talked about the project Change Is A Team Sport. But this time we would like to present you a part we’ve not covered yet. Change is a Team Sport is a project based entirely on the principal of teamwork, of meeting and working together with other people, of exchange, of interpersonal interaction. But… Read more » Continue reading

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: Doma Collective (Julian Chu)

July 30, 2020

DOMA Collective burst onto the urban art scene in Buenos Aires in 1998 with its stencils, installations and guerrilla campaigns with a touch of irony and absurdity. Mariano Barbieri, Julian Manzelli, Matías Vigliano and Orilo Blandini were the members who gave shape to this reactionary artistic proposal, loaded with political content where they tackled… Read more » Continue reading

News

The challenge of Urban Art festivals

July 27, 2020

Asalto Festival in Zaragoza, Rexenera in Galicia and Parees in Oviedo are the three flagship festivals of muralism and art in the public space in Spain. Artists such as Aryz, Case Maclaim, Lidia Cao or Bosolleti have left their trace at Rexenera, representing the urban scene from Galician to international artists and putting Carballo (A… Read more » Continue reading

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