MURALes

I started painting early, I do not remember age, but discovering as a child distant drawings and scribbles on the walls of my parents’ workshop. Then, I was drawing for hours on my parents’ sewing machines while they worked. I did it for pleasure and because my weak health did not allow me to run around with other children. Then they sent me to a teacher and I met the oil painting, the models, and the museums and galleries, as well as the concerts, since it was part of my teacher’s demands. As a teenager I embarked on painting as an adventure, which led me to discover other active artists, to live together in the San Telmo Fair. The Constructivism was a solid foundation for walking the path of Painting, giving a solid approach towards mural painting & Applied Art. With the decades this form of work received new names as Urban Art, and many times in fusion with graffiti artists. I believe that the artist’s task is to give a testimony of his time and to tell something individual and important of one: to make a place on earth and relate something unique and relevant. When I have the possibility, I make murals and environmental projects, in cooperation with children and different population, maybe at schools or just a wall of the neighborhood. I perceive art and painting as a weapon of the weak, of those below: murals and graffiti, drawing and putting color in the environment, and also feelings & contents of the people. Even if in the end they reach the collections of millionaires, murals give a sense of pertinence & creativity to average man.