For some reasons, Spain tend to produce the best street artists in the world.
This young artist is another example with his personal and powerful work. I love it. What about you?
More about the Spanish street artist Aryz.
Character design by the Spanish street artist
Building graffiti by Aryz
The graffiti characters are really inspiring
Aryz paint huge characters on the city walls
Massive street art painting
Alex Trochut was in Bali recently.
Unfortunately I wasn’t there when the artist came on the island where I am currently based.
Too bad.
Alex is a designer who lives in Barcelona.
Yes for those who learned geography by watching Eat, Pray , Love, Barcelona is in Spain… 😉
The artist combines amazing self-made types and sharp illustration in an experimental and superb way.
His artwork has been featured in international art magazines, and he has work for many big clients around the world.
In this exclusive interview, Alex tells us more about his artworks, his working process, and his design influences.
See you next time when you come back on my island bro.
Learn more about the Spanish artist Alex Trochut and visit his portfolio.
New York artwork by Alex Trochut
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
Geometric and fluid.
Alex is a master of new school type design
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
Trying to get lost in the process and try to get something good and new out of it.
Artwork for the cover of Creative Review, a compilation of the 20 best logos of all time
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART?
If your envoirment makes your head see things differently, and that always something good.
Design In Spain artwork
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
So many, on the top of my list, Joan Trochut, Herb Lubalin, Milton Glasser, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Vasarely, M.C. Escher, Jim Phillips, Rick Griffin, and more.
Alex Trochut type design Aniversari
ANY LAST WORD?
Word!
Cecilia de Val is a photographer based in Zaragoza, Spain.
Her beautiful work has been exhibited in prestigious galleries across Spain and Europe, and she won countless art prizes. She is represented by Camara Oscura in Madrid and Spectrum Sotos in Zaragoza.
In this interview the artist introduces herself. She explain us more about the working process behind the inspiring pictures.
Cecilia also tells us more about the fellow photographers who influenced her work as an artist.
On another hand, the photographer is the beloved wife of the talented Spanish artist Leto.
More about the Spanish photographer Cecilia de Val.
Cecilia De Val portrait
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
My name is Cecilia de Val, I am a Spanish photographer who lives and work between Zaragoza and Madrid.
Artwork by the Spanish photographer
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
My photographies could be affiliate to the narrative photography movement, as my artwork challenges the individual’s relationship with its environment.
Photography by Cecilia De val
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
Usually I work in series.
Those series come from an idea that I later developed and materialized through the pictures.
Photography by Cecilia De Val
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART?
My work is based on my environment …
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
Photo portrait of a girl sleeping with a tiger
ANY LAST WORD?
In November, come to my next show at gallery Camara Oscura in Madrid.
Every week, I try my best to show you an inspiring collection of some of the best street artists from around the world.
This week, discover a nice selection of artworks by the Spanish artist Liqen.
More images of the inspiring Street art from Liqen.
Mantro, street art on a building
The Spanish street artist invade the streets of Mexico with colorful artworks
Urban graffiti at its best
Cara, a face painted on a wall
Bicefarl is a urban painting by the Sanish artist Liqen
My friend from Zaragoza has been a talented director and editor of commercials, music videos, documentary and fiction since 1995.
He worked for brands such as Ikea, Renault, Heineken, Iberdrola, Horcones, El Corte Ingles, and much much more.
He also likes to play darts and to eat “frutos secos” with my best friend Leto.
Yes he is Spanish.
Extract of a videoclip for the Spanish band No Truck Truckers
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
I’m Ignacio Bernal, a spanish film director from Aragón.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
Fiction, music videos, commercial, video art. Stories. Simplicity. Rhythm.
Canto A La Libertad, a Unesco video by Ignacio Bernal
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
When I tell a story -either fiction, commercial or music video- I
first come with an idea. I edit it shot by shot,
setting the style and the rhythm, trying to make it clearer. I listen to a lot of music related to this story, because music brings me images and a necessary
mood that helps me to tell it from my own point of view. At this point the hard work is already done. Then you just have to film it.
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART?
I love to know the thoughts and feelings from the people around me. I observe how they behave in certain situations. They give me all I need to know to understand how everything works. Stories are seen and starred by people. We musn’t forget that.
Extract of the video for Tedx Zaragoza by Ignacio Bernal
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
Caravaggio always, and also Kubrick, Buñuel, Picasso, Dalí, John Wayne, good
music, good wine, women and western.
Musical videoclip by Ignacio Bernal
ANY LAST WORD?
Nice to meet you.
The new issue of Spanish magazine is out.
When I was in Berlin for my last exhibition, I had the pleasure to meet the really cool people behind the great art and lifestyle magazine Lamono.
We quickly became friends, and spent a lot of cool times together.
I even interviewed one of the artist in their team.
Feel free to read about Javier De Riba, and his inspiring Reskate artistic project.
Their new issue just came out, and here is a digital version of the publication.
Enjoy!
More about the Spanish publication called Lamono.
Cover of the 76th issue of the magazine Lamono
Leto is one of my two best friends.
I stay at his place for the week, so I have to say nice things if I don’t want to end up sleeping in the street, having anal sex with a mentally challenged spanish bum. Well, thinking about it, as long as the bum don’t ask me to eat a Telepizza…
More about the Spanish artist Leto.
Leto at Bienal de Pamplona XII edicion, 2010
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
My name is Leto, I’m french artist (doing paintings, illustration and installation), currently living and working in Spain.
Painting typical of the artist-s style
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
My work is somewhere around figurative expressionism. I fill my canvas with characters like popular celebrities or everything you can find in the mass media. Manuel Ocampo wrote that my work “deconstructs the images rules”.
Don’t Let Them Kill Us
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
Most of the time I start with an image that I reproduce on the canvas, and then something hard to explain happens in my head. I like to put my characters in an overloaded environment, while taking care not to lose the meaning of my work. I tend to keep a conceptual point of view more than a purely aesthetic approach.
Black and white drawing by the painter from Zaragoza
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART
I live in Spain, and the TV programs here are very similar to what we can find in Italy. I mean “TV Basura” (trash TV). This is a great inspiration that perfectly reflects the consumer mentality in which we all live. My paintings criticize a ready-to-think society.
Painting by the Spanish artist Leto
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
ANY LAST WORD?
Before I Die?
When I was at in Berlin for my exhibition at Zirkumflex gallery, I met the spanish guys (sorry, I meant girls) from Lamono magazine, as well as Javier De Riba from Reskate!.
The man gave me what I must say was the best business card ever (made of wood covered with skateboard grip), and happened to be really cool. A good opportunity to practice a lil bit of spanish and talk about his projects. Now you are lucky too, not just because you are on the best blog ever, but because Javier will share some of his secrets with you. ¡Vamos!
More about the Nube Style
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
Hop! My name is Javier de Riba and I’m a graphic designer, illustrator and reskater from Barcelona. I worked in some advertising agencies but now I’m working as a freelance. As there was no work, I involved myself in a personal project called Reskate! that makes me work with a lot of illustrators and learn from them.
Javier De Riba Reskate
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
I try not to have a particular style, to demonstrate myself that i can set out to do almost everything. This way I try what I like to do. These days I’m quite fond on lettering and liquid textures.
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
I always start drawing by hand with different techniques and materials. Depending on the concept i use one technique or another. Finally i scan and make the final retouches on the computer.
No Hay Uno Sin Dos – Lettering artwork
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART
I try to collaborate and surround myself with different people who have interest in making creative things. This way we inspire each other and create a good atmosphere for creation. I also like to watch other people’s work on the internet because this makes me feel a good envy to move myself.
Framed painting
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
If i really like a work it reminds on my mind regardless who’s made it. I find myself more influenced by certain styles. From academic design to dirty and textured art.
Javier De Riba – Nube
ANY LAST WORD?
If i was about to die i would say: “amhhhh, Pin aprofita”. Pin is my flatmade and “aprofita” means in Catalan make the most out of your life.
Nube artwork detail
Nube artwork detail