Siesta post Fiesta – Ruben Sanchez for Recien Pintado in Barcelona | StreetArtNews

Before the world stopped revolving and we had been all topic to numerous levels of lockdown Barcelona based mostly artists Spogo and Marti Noy curated Recien Pintado in their hometown of Badalona close to Barcelona. Recien Pintado interprets to ‘just painted’ and this exhibition showcases the works of 10 worldwide artists. These artists have one thing in frequent, effectively two issues in truth, their work in the streets and their connection to the city of Badalona.

These artists symbolize a tradition and a way of life that began with graffiti and hip-hop in the early nineties. Both inventive expressions had been spreading messages of political protest and social justice, evolving till the current days. Graffiti was getting used as a approach of sending vindicatory messages and, on the identical time, as a software for dignifying the forgotten areas of town, filling partitions and deserted buildings with murals.

At Recien Pintado the exhibiting artists received’t be intervening the streets. They received’t be displaying their completed artwork items in the venue both. Oh no, it’s way more particular than that… every artist might be creating their paintings in actual time on the gallery area. The viewers will be capable to go to the area whereas the artists create their items on the partitions and areas of the constructing. This permits the viewer to share the artistic and inventive WIP with the artist up shut and private..

One artist creating in situ for Recien Pintado is the famend Madrileno Ruben Sanchez (Zoonchez) You could know Sanchez’s work from his gloriously vibrant summary murals throughout the globe. Recently nevertheless Sanchez has been transitioning again to engaged on extra sculpture based mostly items. For Recién Pintado the artist has created a picket sculpture titled ‘Siesta post Fiesta’ 100% handmade from wooden the piece is impressed by the dream worlds we will solely go to in our desires. Although the piece is extra minimalistic in color that his regular work it nonetheless has sufficient of Sanchez’s vibrancy operating all through to make it indisputably his. I like to consider these flashes of color as components of those desires flowing by way of the human thoughts like a river.

Recien Pintado

The exhibition is curated by native artist Spogo and Martí Noy, and arranged in collaboration with Badalona City Council and the Vicerectorat d’Arts, Cultura i Patrimoni of the University of Barcelona, with the help of the Generalitat of Catalunya. The Exhibition is being held on the Centre Cultural El Carme, Badalona, Barcelona and can re-convene as soon as lockdown restrictions have been lifted.

Ruben Sanchez

Born in Madrid and has been adopted by cities akin to Barcelona, New York, Dubai and at the moment Badalona. His work was born in the subcultures of graffiti and skateboarding, and later built-in notions of graphic design and illustration. Elements akin to translucency, intersections between kinds and Mediterranean color palettes seem in his work. He always explores new methods and helps and his work is materialised in canvases, murals, translucent picket items, ceramics, massive installations and a variety of prospects the place the established is at all times questioned in a sort of recreation. His characters, at all times in a fragile stability with abstraction, work together with one another and invite the viewer to decipher a message that may have a number of interpretations. He has painted murals and took part in exhibitions and tasks in many international locations in Europe, Asia and America.

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/zoonchez/

Website – https://www.iamrubensanchez.com/