A couple of large canvases have been seen at the Moberg Gallery booth at the L.A. Art Show!

A new canvas for the Equilibrios Cotidianos series: Autoconocimiento

I’ve been playing around with NFT’s lately, trying to get used to them before exploring possibilities within smart contracts for more complex ideas.
Here is the fourth one I mint, based on one of the different Vanitas designs I did before releasing the limited edition sculpture with Sculpturest last year.
If you’re interested, this one is available via Foundation here

La Reunión (Reunited) is a 5 color screen print on Old Mill bianco 300gr paper, but it is also a celebration of those casual moments with your people that end up in mad laughter and magic conversations.

Available here

40x30cm. Limited edition of 100. Signed, numbered and delivered in a nice custom folder.
Made with love and special dedication by my usual screenprint maestro ArtPlus

I’ve been thinking about a sculpture that needs to stand on the wall, so you gotta place it in a corner or similar. This lady lost on her thoughts while having a coffee is the result of the first prototype on plywood

La Niña que charlaba con la Caracola (Girl with Sea shell)

This new mural in the beautiful Isla de El Hierro is based on a local tale where a girl gets to communicate with Nisa, the Nature Goddess, through a sea shell. Then a lot of underwater magic stuff happens and after an intense spiritual experience she raises a special awareness of our connection with Nature. A wall to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the underwater volcano that erupted a couple kms away from this wall and made underwater life very special since then.

A project by Hisla

Muchas gracias Octa, Ampi y Dani por el buen rato con tanta calidad de gente.
The wall is located at Puerto de La Restinga, the southest point of Europe

Super excited to share with you “The Bounce” 

A new sculpture that welcomes you to the Nike European Headquarters in Hilversum, NL.

I found cool to show movement freezing in space-time, like in a scene from the Matrix, showing a giant ball bouncing down the blocks and transferring to a new dimension through the floor, a metaphorical way to show how sports can be the perfect tool for breaking physical and mental barriers.
Dopamine released from playing sports can be miraculous in many ways.

This permanent artwork is part of the new Homecourt Arena of the Nike HQ, a lovely public space that connects the different buildings where you can find green areas that contributes to local biodiversity, food trucks, a bee community, outdoor meeting spots, and a dope skatepark, right where you can spot the artwork.

Many thanks to all the Nike team involved, specially Wouter and David for their support, understanding and braveness.

Vanitas is my new limited edition sculpture in collaboration with Sculpturest.com

Limited edition of 50 per color - 3 different colorways
Polyamide, hand finished and painted.

24 x 15 x 10 cm

Shipping worldwide.

 “Since I was a kid I have been very curious about weird still life paintings.
To me it was like crime scenes where I had to find out the story behind those compositions. 

While most still lifes are just studies of light and color there are some special ones that particularly caught my attention and that are very present in my recent work: Vanitas, a genre mainly developed in the Baroque that highlight the transience of life, the firmness of death and how we deal with what’s in between.
The visual tension of these compositions intrigued me: the skulls, the jewels, the rotten fruits, the lobsters hanging, the fragile balance of the candles and hourglasses reminding us our limited time in life… 

I like the challenge and contrast of turning the hidden symbology of these dark elements into a colorful composition with sexy shapes while keeping that balance somehow. 
I also find attractive the idea of extrapolating this concept to our days from a positive perspective, in order to act or think in conscience: being aware of our limited time in life, understand the ephemerality and banality of material pleasures, react to the vanity that surrounds our society.”

Thanks for watching!

Some tests on wood that I’ve been doing lately. Made from a single piece of pine wood.

A new short edition of screen prints is available at my shop: Woman, Vase & Orange.
A reproduction of an original canvas from a recent commission. It’s a 3 color screenprint, hand finished, signed and numbered. Old Mill bianco 300gr paper. 60x80cm.
Available here.

I started 2021 with this idea in mind: the Crash series. Started originally with a sculpture and followed by a large canvas, this series show an external element getting in scene altering the order and balance of the composition.
External elements that break into our daily life altering our modus vivendi.

A new challenge I’ll be developing this year. I hope you like it so far.

Different photos taken from my phone

Wishing you the best for this new year. Lots of good energy and creativity.
Love from my studio!

(I’m not that serious in real life)

The latest work of 2020 in the studio has been this large black and white canvas, Jeopardy.
A woman riding a calm tiger while trying to balance different everyday items. An ode to the state of alarm intrinsic to the human being, that person who once stopped hunting animals for food and protection, and focused these qualities (alarm, danger perception, etc) on more banal problems, to the point of worrying about really stupid things in modern society generating anxiety and other mental issues

Sometimes we find predators and danger where there are none and worries where we don't need them.

Moberg Gallery just opened a new collective show, SWAY, curated by Jason Woodside. I’m happy that this great shows are becoming a tradition now. Feels so good to be surrounded by all these great talents.
Full info at Moberg Gallery

My first book, Today is Tomorrow's Yesterday is finally at the studio, it’s been a long journey since I started the crowdfunding campaign with Slanted Publishers. Where this project was just an idea.

Thanks to all the backers who supported the project, the book became a reality and I cannot be more excited to have this book in my hands now.
In case you don’t know anything about the project, this book is a selection of pages from my sketchbooks and diaries. Loyal friends who’ve been with me in every trip and different moments of my life. Find more information here

If you’re interested in the book and you couldn't catch it during the crowdfunding campaign it is also available at my online store now

Trying a new finish in a sandy terra-cotta style for the Equilibrio ceramic sculpture.

I’ve been working on these new ceramics, where I wanted the shapes to be irregular, like my drawings.
It’s the first time I put text on them too. Thank you to Bas Barcelona for the help, they are all available at Limited Editions