JOTALO
About the artist
Jose Javier López, aka Jota López, is a multidisciplinary artist from Murcia born in 1995. His passion for the plastic arts comes from a very early age, which led him to enter the world of Graffiti about 2008 and which years later led to a need to create more complex art on a larger scale, thus beginning in painting murals. Furthermore, Jota trained as an Industrial Designer, dedicating himself professionally to Graphic Design and later to the world of art direction and 3D animation, all of this in parallel with muralism. The influence of these artistic fields is reflected in the style and technique of the works he currently creates, creating compositions full of color and playing with the fusion of shapes, the technique of realism and some optical effects that provide a visual character typical of the modern digital world, all this done using the spray technique. The style, if a name had to be appropriate, could be called abstract portrait along with a retro-digital aesthetic. His best project to date is the art direction and design the SFDK new music album, in addition to a huge mural (8 x 12m) of the album cover in Seville. SFDK is one of the best spanish rap bands and one of the pioneers of hip hop culture in Spain and Latin America. Another notable project is his mural “ELLA” (10x15m) at Astarté Festival de Arte Urbano in Cuenca, Spain. On the other hand hi has participate at a lot of national events and festivals as well as Liga Nacional de Graffiti, getting some awards at different events around the country.