Listening to the wood…

Tu y yo tenemos que hablar….

Those good things at Middle East #3

Happy to be back on screenprinting.
“El Rey del Mambo” is my new work: an edition of 15 screenprints with 3 different handpainted background colors. Signed and numbered with love.
64x90cm

Here is the solution to the lack of beach paddle supplies in Dubai. After searching in seven hundred shops with no luck I gave up and decided to build my own racquet. My friend Amartey built a crazy one too. Tested and approved!

Canopi is the name of the project I’ve been working on these past days, a skate oasis/perfect bowl surrounded by trees located in Tashkeel, Dubai.
Even the bowl is half finished we couldn’t have wait to skate it, also we are still working on making of this one of the most comfortables places to skate, but everything will be ready for Jan 25th, the grand opening!

Those good things at Middle East #2

There is no day without night. Coming up!

The best way to start a colorful day. Thx Khalid!

Those good things at Middle East #1

At first this was supposed to be just a “warm up” painting. When I paint animals I normally choose animals that somehow I feel related to. When I came to Tashkeel, I felt very attracted to the local fauna of the region; I spent some time researching it as well as visiting the Arabic Wildlife center in Sharjah; and I found enough inspiration to start this project: Day and Night diptych. (The fox is one half of the diptych-depicting day; the next one is in progress)

The diptych is about local animals of the United Arab Emirates that I feel related to, I see them somehow behaving like graffiti writers: they move slightly, quietly, observant, with their crew or alone, also rivalry and fights exits (in fact the next painting is a famous fox predator). Basically I find “clandestinity” in them.

Although both of the animals in the two paintings co-exist at night, as well as in the day sometimes, I wanted to separate them by Day and Night as an not easy exercise of color coexistence.“
 

Desert Fox. Part of "Day and Night diptych”.
Acrylic on canvas. 150x180cm

I’ve just met these guys during my breakfast today. Clockwise: Pako Koala, WierdBeard, Mami Rumba & Mad Jack. 

Tashkeel tour around historic Dubai. Crazy smells and colors that takes you back to the good ol’ trading times…

There were once this two guys from Argentina talking about lakes. One of them was saying that the biggest lake of the world was Name1 and it was in Argentina, the other guy said that the biggest lake of the world was Name2 and it was in Argentina as well. The first guy corrected himself and said that the biggest lake was none of those but it was name3 and it was in Argentina too. 

After a couple of minutes I just realized that there were 5 lakes in Argentina that are the biggest in the world!

I painted this and give it to an Argentinian friend of mine.

Translation:
-In Argentina there are 5 lakes that are the biggest in the World
-Stop it (in the Argentinian way)- 

What’s up!

Sneak peak of my 1st piece in Tashkeel. 

Exquisite bulerías by Potito & Duquende (singing), Tomatito (guitar), Joaquín Grilo & Belén Maya (dancing).
Filmed by Carlos Saura (1995).

We’ve been today at Raw Coffee Dubai painting coffee sacks with local and foreign artists for a charity event destined to coffee farms in Ethiopia. Good company, very good coffee and loads of creativity. As Ice-Cube says: Today was a good day…

Vaca cíclope de 3 ojos. Acrylic on recycled canvas. 70x90cm.