So excited to announce my first solo show in the US: Human Nature.
October 21st at Moberg Gallery. (Des Moines, IA)
A celebration of the human condition, embracing our imperfections but also our ability to overcome difficult situations.
This is a new body of work, where post-cubism flirts with abstraction, and where color creates a dialogue with black and white, in a mix of styles.
These paintings, that sometimes act as mirrors, create a colorful therapy, filling the gallery with questions that ask us to think about the mysteries of our mind, the most powerful tool we have. This exhibit also wants to remind us that happiness can be found in the small everyday details rather than where we place unrealistic expectations and goals.
During this journey, many external factors will try to break our balance as depicted in some of the paintings; but the way we deal with these issues is key to maintaining stability in these unbalanced situations. You’ll find dynamic still-life paintings with elements in fragile balance or being scrambled by external elements that disrupt daily life. There are visual metaphors that challenge the viewer to decipher subjects, such as anxiety, forgiveness, overcoming, nostalgia, unconditional love, self-esteem… but the viewer can also create their own interpretation and draw their own conclusions—that’s what makes art independently beautiful.
Welcome to this journey with no destination.
Showing this canvas at Urban Break 2022 in Seoul, Korea by the hand of Volery Gallery & StreetArtNews
Curated by Rom Levy
Happy to be showing in Korea for the first time and in very good company
Equilibrios Cotidianos VIII
Spraypaint on canvas 95x150cm
Excited to share this very special project I recently did with Nike for their European Headquarters, a sculpture made out of more than 2000 pairs of recycled shoes!
This new sculpture recently installed at the new campus is my second public art project in the new installations of the brand.
The artwork shows a soccer player upside down focusing on a flower growing up from the ground and it wants to make us consider our dialogue with nature through its message and construction in Nike Grind, a material entirely made of recycled shoes that the brand uses for different purposes from running tracks or basketball courts to create furniture.
I used one of the company's mottos to create a guideline for the project: "No Planet, No Sports" that reflects the commitment of the brand with sustainability. In the end it’s all about priorities so we must strike a balance somehow.
It’s the first time that a sculpture is made of Nike Grind (a material made of recycled shoes mostly that they use to build running tracks, furniture, etc.) and we faced a few challenges during the fabrication.
After collecting the recycled material, the team from Colossus Printers tested the material in order to know the resistance and feasibility of the project. Once approved, they 3D printed my model, then I hand painted the key elements of the artwork while the rest of the sculpture shows the raw material polished. If you look close enough you can appreciate the tiny chunks of shoes. It’s crazy!
Shout out to Renee @theoneprojectrecycling @colossusprinters Wouter and David for making it possible.
You can check it out at the public area of the Nike Campus, located in Hilversum, NL. Next to the skatepark and my other sculpture there, the Bounce.
Massive thanks to Nike for believing in me for this project.
It’s cool that we all as individuals take part and do our thing for the planet but I think the big companies are really the ones that can make a change. I’m sure there’s always room to improve but it’s been great to see in first person how Nike is taking it very seriously through countless initiatives.
Hope you like it!
The other day we spent a really nice day at the beach right where I live in Badalona painting this wall in community for a charity event by @bomberssolidaris & @proactivaopenarms
My friends Begoña and Spogo as well and many kids who passed by helped make this happen.
Photos by @feralcala / Paint by Montana Colors
TEXT BY MICHAELA MULLIN
Contemporary Abstraction: Collaging Space and Color
This exhibit makes space for over twenty artists from around the world, who spend time creating abstractions of the things they see and feel and are. They bring experience to us in a heuristic form with their artworks, and they trust that the viewer will leave having picked up a few new things to think about.
Ruben Sanchez’s paintings “Momentum II” and “Momentum III” are deeply hued vanitas works, fuller than many of his older ones. Smaller in scale but offering multiple scenes, tableaus multiplied to make yet a larger tableau. The magenta, tangerine orange, turquois blue, and golden yellows create—combined with the vases and stems, cactus and guitar—a unique style that is warm and Almodovarian.
Dope photo by Marcel Veldman of this guy (sorry don’t know the name!) riding the ball of The Bounce, my sculpture at Nike Eu HQ.
Showing for the first time in San Francisco! If you’re around pass by Heron Arts to check this group show where I’ll have a few pieces :)
Excited to share this project for the newest ship by Brittany Ferries, Salamanca.
A liquid gas powered lady that will be cruising between Spain and UK with a drastically reduced environmental impact.
I created many works for their indoor installations as well as some mural art for the sundeck.
It’s been a great time working on this and hey I even learnt how to drive this beast, thanks captain!
You will find a nicely curated selection of works by different artists and photographers in this ship apart of my work.
Many thanks to all the crew, specially Kimberly Poppe for the support and great vibe
©All photos by KlunderBie
Humbled to have designed this special board for my friend and Spanish legend Dani Lebrón who’s been killing the streets in style for over two decades. Thanks to Titus Skateboards for this chance
Artwork inspired by Dani’s famous gladiator breakfast.
Check below his new video part.
I have a couple of large canvases showing now at Galeria Ola in Barcelona (Consell de Cent 383).
The title and concept of the show is Emoción. That’s why we chose to show “Jeopardy” and “Crash II”, two artworks quite linked to emotional balance like I explained here. I’m happy to be surrounded in this show by the good company of Javier Mariscal, Xano Armenter, Carmen Van den Eynde and Manuel Outumuro.
Showing until April.
I started the year with this big installation in Shanghai where you can find many of my works in different locations of the Showay centre on the occasion of the Chinese New Year / Year of the Tiger.
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.”
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