Red + Black + Tashkeel + a clean white wall + Estevan Oriol + guys skating around + David Choe + Dubai + myself + freestyle + a broken light
= amazing evening.
Glad that this painting was sold yesterday in the Art4Sight auction, a charity art event. 100% of the money will be used for treating people suffering from blindness in countries like Pakistan or Ethiopia.
The piece is “Cacique en la sombra”, acrylic on canvas. Bright black over matt black, so you can appreciate the figure just from some points of view depending of the light.
You might like it or not, but the fact that thanks to this sale, people is gonna see, that’s awesome man.
Check out this photo.
This is the B side of Dubai, the labour camps. This photo was “illegally" shot (you’re not supposed to take photos there) at a labour camp by Hala, friend and half-sandwich at Mobius design. Guys like this one use to work 12 hours everyday, and they have only one day off a month as an average. Building the metro railway, cleaning the highway, delivery services or skyscraper construction are some of their tasks. They basically run this city in a way.
During their scarce free time, these guys still have time to build some ghetto dumbells with leftovers from their work and work out.
Respect.
Nice one Hala.
Bonnie & Clyde
No matter what wood was before, it can be whatever you want. Even a reproductive system.
Aparato Reproductor. Acrylic on recycled wood 45x105cm. Dubai, 2013
Behind every great man is a crazy woman.
Dubai 2013
Those good things at Middle East #4
Canopi bowl, located in Tashkeel (Dubai) is the best shit ever.
I’m so lucky to be able to skate this "skate oasis" everyday. Even though transitions and ramps is not my thing I enjoy as a little kid riding this.
I tried to symbolize the ramp when designing the logo, inspired on its shapes and colors, and the trees that surround it.
Then I applied it in different ways on recycled wood to keep its organic and natural look. Viva Canopi siempre!
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine
Al Bastakiya is one of the oldest residential areas in the city of Dubai.The locality lies along Dubai Creek and its unique architecture includes narrow lanes and wind towers, as well as the Al Fahidi Fort, the oldest existing building in Dubai.
I painted this guy in one of its amazing corners, chilling like they used to do 100 years back, when Bastakiya was the residence for expatriate families.
Mix of geometrical colorful patterns and black & white freehand stylo.
Yupppp! About to paint a Nayla Romanos’ handmade sculpture for Dubai’s Sikka Art Fair 2013. So excited about this collab!
It will be shown at Tashkeel Bastakiya from March 14th Inshallah!
Cookies is to milk what fries is to Coke. And what markers is to paper.
The Mission of the Minotaur is about the skateboarding seed that is growing up in Dubai through the effort of a bunch of people in Tashkeel, mainly Lateefa and Brad, the guy who sees this wall everyday now.
Understanding islamic geometric patterns at The Archive.
Research for my next project with Tashkeel out in the streets yo!
Thank you for dropping by Tashkeel for our “Meet the artists” session,
the informal evening we had couple days ago featuring Amartey Golding & myself.
It was a real challenge to talk about my works in english to a bunch of people, but that was great actually despite of the nervous breakdown. We’ve been working closely for the last six weeks with Artist Consultant Rima Kaddissi, elaborating our artistic trajectory through sessions focused on the Thinking Process in the Contemporary Art Practice, and this talk was more or less like our “dissertation”. Now I’m wondering if I passed the course…
Just fooling around in the studio with some sprays and a cardboard…
Typing different egos