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JOTALO204. JOTALOJose 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.
Solo212. SoloRome, italy 1982. Devourer of comics and pop culture, he discovered the world of graffiti at the high school. After, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, under the guidance of Michele Cossyro, he transformed his way of expressing himself through painting on canvas, experimenting with classic techniques and moving his language from the typical writing lettering to the figurative. In 2008 he graduated with full marks, interviewing Ronnie Cutrone in New York. Subsequently Solo, combines the world of graffiti, made of spray cans, with the pop figures that he fixed on canvas during his studies, making superheroes in crisis appear on the walls of Rome, which will remain the hallmark of his artistic research. Raised with the values of the heroes encountered in comics, he amplifies those teachings by transferring them to the walls of cities and thus making them available to everyone. Over the last 15 years he has painted on walls and exhibited his works in numerous important galleries, from Paris to Prague, up to Satka in Russia, where in 2017, he was chosen together with Diamond, with whom he shares the studio, to represent Italy at the international street art biennial, and in Miami, where in 2013 he exhibited at Art Basel. At the same time as his artistic production with walls, canvases, sculptures and silk-screen prints, he brings his experience by teaching in schools, prisons and healthcare facilities. Over the years he has collaborated with underground realities such as Respect Project, with which he creates clothing, and with the largest international brands, including Valentino with a capsule in 2016, Marvel-Disney, Warner Bros and Panini, thanks to the global diffusion of cinecomics, and Louis Vuitton, which commissioned a series of hand-painted trunks between 2019 and 2020
Kyle Holbrook218. Kyle HolbrookKyle Holbrook is an American muralist and activist best known for his street art in 43 countries and 49 states, NYC, Los Angelos, London, Pittsburgh, Tokyo and Miami, Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Holbrook Youth and education Kyle Holbrook was raised in the Wilkinsburg neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[1] where he was exposed to gang violence during high school secondary. He has stated that this upbringing inspired his efforts to employ local teenagers during his public mural projects.[2] Holbrook later attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where in 2002 he earned a degree in graphic design.[3][4] Artwork Holbrook’s first works were painted on the buildings of the communities of the Pittsburgh Housing Authority, commercial buildings in the Pittsburgh area, and the Port Authority.[3] An early commission included a 65-foot mural in the area of the Monroeville Mall.[5] In 2005 Holbrook co-produced the Martin Luther King mural with artists Chris Savido and George Gist at the corner of Wood Street and Franklin Avenue. The location is nearby where several of Holbrook’s childhood friends were murdered.[6] Holbrook’s mural We Fall Down but We Get Back up, located on Paulson Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was painted in 2008, and incorporates the faces of the community activists that lobbied the city for the mural’s public creation.[1] Holbrook has painted more than two hundred murals in the City of Pittsburgh,[6] some done through his company KH Design.[7] He has painted several murals in London in 2015.[8] Holbrook and Hong Kong artist Cara To had a disagreement over their collaborative work in August 2016, for a mural in Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets neighborhood, for which Holbrook terminated To's employment.[9] Holbrook later filed suit, in April 2018, against numerous public and private entities in Pittsburgh over destruction of his artworks, based on the federal Visual Artists Rights Act.[10] As of 2021, Holbrook had produced public murals in 43 US states and 40 different countries globally.[11] In the late 2010s he relocated his residence to Miami, Florida.[12] National tours In early 2021, he undertook several messenging murals in major US cities to advocate pandemic mask use during his "Mask up campaign".[13] The murals in San Francisco, for example, featured images of famous 1960s rock musicians in medical masks,[14] whereas his mural in Phoenix, Arizona featured an image of Martin Luther King Jr. also wearing a mask.[15] In the summer of 2021, Holbrook undertook a national tour of the United States in order to paint unique murals in the downtowns of various major cities that advocated the end to gun violence - naming it the "National Stop Gun Violence Tour". He stated that the act was in response to the 45 different friends and family from his upbringing that he had seen lost to gun violence over the course of his life.[16] Philanthropy Since 2002 Holbrook has served as the executive director and CEO of MLK Mural, also known as “Moving the Lives of Kids Mural Project”,[17][18] a youth organization that brings mural work to Black communities in the United States and abroad.[19] MLK Mural pays its youth participants[20] with its grant money.[21] An example of its projects was The Broken Windows Project, where 75 abandoned and underused buildings in the Hill District of Pittsburgh were painted in murals by 200 local students led by a tea of artists.[22] Holbrook led the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway Community Mural Project in 2008, where 100 students helped to paint twenty-six murals throughout the eight neighbourhoods through which the bus route exists.[23][24][25] By 2009 the organization had created more than 100 public murals.[17] The organization opened an office in Miami in 2010, creating fifty murals in the city area by 2015.[26] Other locations the organization has created work include Detroit, Atlanta, Brazil, Haiti,[27] Uganda, and Portugal. Holbrook sits on the board of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.[20] Films Holbrook directed the film Art of Life in 2013.[19]
REDL219. 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.
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