“Anatomía de un volcán”

The mural illustrates, in a poetic and personal manner, an analysis of the physical and emotional structure of the concept of a volcano, employing a scientific visual language but brought to the field of art. The artist uses a very distinct shade of blue paint, present in all of his works, to allude to the world of the invisible and the intangible in nature. 
 

Joaquin Vila is a visual artist, muralist, and scientific illustrator from Madrid, Spain. He owns a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scenography Design from the European University of Madrid, a Postgraduate Diploma in Exhibition Design from Elisava in Barcelona, and obtained a Unesco scholarship for the Watermill Foundation in New York, and the MACBA, Barcelona's Contemporary Art Museum. His art depicts hybrid entities that are half human, half animal, or half plant. With these beings, he wants to conceptualize a debate between science, mythology, and imagination. They are non-material, reflecting life beyond the physical, the unseen. Blue indigo is his signature hue, which appears in all his artworks since he finds this shade of blue ideal for expressing the depth and the infinite. The lines and dots represent the vibration, energy, and electricity that passes through all living things and produce an optical appearance of delicate movement that is nearly imperceptible but present. His creative work is guided by a continuing examination of the relationship between the human being and the natural world, concentrating on studying natural processes of transformation, fusion, and symbiosis.