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REDL182. REDLBorn in Zurich in 1969, REDL developed a passion for drawing from an early age on. When the hip-hop culture and particularly graffiti grew in Europe during the early eighties, he was immediately fascinated by this new form of creative expression and sprayed his first painting in 1983. Parallel to his preparatory course at the Zurich School of Arts and his vocational training as a photo retoucher and illustrator, REDL further developed his graffiti skills. The young artist was fascinated so much that he dedicated himself completely to this exiting mix of art and movement. In consequence, REDL became one of the main exponents of the Swiss graffiti and street art scene in the 1990s. By traveling around (Paris, Amsterdam to New York and Quito) he expanded his artistic horizon and met some of the most famous street artists, which had a significant influence on his work. In 1993, he founded artworks.ch and since then has worked as an independent artist, graphic designer and illustrator. Between 1998 and 2003, REDL regularly exhibited his works in Zurich. As of 2004, he focused on his professional independence as a graphic designer and illustrator and only created canvas paintings and murals on request. Among other things, he created the graphic design for the Openair Frauenfeld (the largest urban music festival in Europe) for 10 years. Or portrayed 120 athletes for Swiss Olympic, for the Olympic Games in London 2012. For the past 12 years, REDL has specialized in 3D Anamorphic Murals, a complex version of contemporary urban art in public spaces. Since that time he has been working with Alex Hohl on large projects. A competent and well-established network of urban artists perfectly complements the duo. So they completed projects at home and abroad for numerous companies, public institutions and private clients. Most of the artworks are created in Switzerland. But also in Egypt, Brazil, Hong-Kong, Thailand, Belgium, Italy, Germany and Spain REDL and his team has successfully executed big mural art projects.
El Rey de la Ruina194. El Rey de la RuinaEl REY de la RUINA, in English: "The King of the Ruins" is the pseudonym and manifesto of an artist born in Barcelona, but who has lived in Madrid for more than 15 years. Through graffiti and painting in public spaces he shows us a personal vision of society, full of iconic images that, through repetition, are inserted into the retina of the passerby and become a vehicle for acidic and poetic messages. Plastically, his work is a collage of styles, plots and primary colors in vibrant combinations. In his graphic and mural work, the floral motifs, hearts, hands and symbolic objects tell us endless stories, sometimes of protest and rage, sometimes of poetry and inspiration. With clear and powerful drawing work and lines, a high-contrast color range and a series of vibrant geometric games and compositions, the artist plays with the musicality of the image while working with inspiring and ironic messages and conceptual games on the public space, contributing to all kind of new thoughts, discussions and conversations to the walker and society. In his own words: I believe that my work works on two levels, an optical level close to op-art and a conceptual level, close to Pop art or even Punk, in which the important thing is the message and the provocation. The visual part has something lysergic and psychedelic and connects with surreal and fantastic thinking, it captures the eye and hypnotizes with the vibration of the colors, it has an acidic flavor, which can almost be noticed on the tongue and palate, like a bauble that traps you in a world of wonder that is actually a trap. This trap becomes evident when you become aware of the physical and material part of the image, let's say that the realistic and critical part punches you in the face, as if you had fallen through the burrow hole to hit a wall of reality.
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