El Rey de la Ruina (Tony Arribas). The hearts of El Rey de la Ruina are now a classic of Madrid' s landscape. He has been painting the streets sin 2000 with different alias.
El Rey de la Ruina nickname comes from his dreams as a kid with devastated and abandoned places (or ruins). Mostly because of the relation of this spaces with the literature and disptopic or postapocaliptic cinema. The use of the hearts in his art pieces are because of a diagnosis received a time ago of a cardiomegalia, the abnormal growth of the volume of the heart.