Urbaner KunstRaum Wuppertal - Edition 2023: Manomatic questions our relationship with the destructive automatism of our day-to-day lives, the convention and routine. Manomatic’s speciality is hyperrealism: it means more than photorealism, by adding the subversive and divergent message to the figuration. Being a street artist for him was obviously the only choice, in order to transmit his thoughts to the people. At the glance, he seduces us with figurative realism to trap the ones who casually pass by, and propagates his message: the blind happiness in our society today. Manomatic lives and works in Huelva, Spain.
My work is about the connection between art, city and people - and about public space as an open organism to be played with in creative ways: urban space as a public museum, open to everyone, at any time, without barriers and free of charge. No walls, no doors, no obstructed view - and all that on an international level......
…the world as a guest in Wuppertal and thus a piece of Wuppertal out into the world!