Custo Gallery

Custo Barcelona exhibits in its store on the Ramblas in Barcelona a sample of 32 illustrations that make up the DNA of the brand and have given color to their designs as an expression of the sophisticated and free personality of the brand. The selection of these graphics, from among the more than 30,000 that have been used in Custo’s collections during the more than 25 years of the brand, has been purely emotional.

The exhibition shows the importance of graphics as a leitmotif of the brand, together with color and the mix of materials. Since its beginnings in the 80s, graphic design has conditioned the work of Custo and David Dalmau. In fact, it was the passion for graphics that led these creators to use T-shirts as a canvas, which would gradually lead them to the fashion industry to later consolidate as one of the benchmarks of Spanish design in the world.

With a presence in more than 40 countries, Custo Barcelona is continuously expanding into different markets with recent openings in cities such as London and Medellin (Colombia) and continues to present its work each season at New York Fashion Week since 1997, when it was the first Spaniard to take part in this catwalk.

Desmontando a Popy Blasco #jiminasabadu

¿Quién no tiene conocimiento del blog de Popy Blasco en este momento? El blog, que se inició en 2004 y se ha actualizado constantemente, ha logrado convertirse en el que mejor ha retratado desde adentro la falsificación de la modernidad de Madrid.

Jimina Sabadú, quien en un programa anterior se autodenominó la Bárbara Rey de las letras españolas, regresa para presentarnos su último ensayo, “La conquista de Tinder”. Acompañada por Popy Blasco, director y presentador del podcast decano de esta casa, Pijas Marrones, quien es un experto y hábil analista de tendencias sociales, coolhunter, periodista y autor del libro…

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The Beast Catalog of Walton Ford

Walton Ford’s exhibition ‘Bestiarium‘ at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin – looks like a large-scale encyclopaedia of the animal kingdom.

The American artist, born in 1960, decided to develop his artistic work in the direction that would lead him to ‘Bestiarium’. He was moved by several exhibitions at the Museum of Natural History in New York. His interest in ornithology and the work of John James Audubon began. Audubon was one of the first Americans in the 19th century to undertake the task of cataloguing all the birds of North America. Audubon published ‘Birds of America’, which consisted of 435 life-size drawings of the birds that fascinated him.

In the 1990s, Walton Ford decided to follow in the footsteps of French and British colonial illustrators by offering hyper-realistic works that were themselves catalogues of terrestrial fauna and flora. But 1990 was no longer the 19th century, and it was not worth repeating this step; Ford’s work, on the other hand, offers us spaces full of “complex and disturbing allusions” that distance his work from that of those who invented the animal world.

The struggle between animals is a constant in the works of ‘Bestiarium’, and all the animal figures in the exhibition are in danger. A nest of birds that is devouring a fish that is overflowing with smaller ones, or a gorilla that is playing with the barrel of a shotgun in its mouth, are examples of an animal world that is devouring itself. It is the beautiful ballet of death. Walter Ford could leave behind a list of species that are certain to disappear in this cannibalistic world. Instead, he chooses to make this cannibalism loud and clear.

In this 2015 video, Walton Ford explains his style and his vision of the relationship between the human being and the animal.

Walton Ford – Part 2/3 – Finding his Style from Our Choices on Vimeo.

Pablo Pérez Sanmartín

Pablo Pérez Sanmartín (Pontevedra, 1980) es licenciado en Bellas Artes y no exageramos si decimos que es uno de los artistas jóvenes más consolidados en su campo y que, sin duda, será un nombre conocido dentro de unos años.

Ahora es el momento de descubrirle si no le has visto en Fresh, Mallorca, Vigo, Fast Gallery o La Noche en Blanco. Con su pop potente y rabioso (en el sentido más amplio y contemporáneo de la palabra), llega a Kultura Urbana con una entrevista -‘De A a B’, teléfono a lo Warhol- que no te puedes perder.

La primera exposición verificada de Pablo Pérez Sanmartín fue Ivan Prieto en el Espacio 48 de Santiago de Compostela en 2006. Su exposición más reciente fue Agotados De Esperar El Fin en La Fresh Gallery de Madrid en 2012.

La obra de Pablo Pérez Sanmartín se expone principalmente en España, pero también ha realizado exposiciones en Estados Unidos. Pérez Sanmartín ha realizado al menos dos exposiciones individuales y seis colectivas en los últimos seis años. (Para más información, véase su biografía). Una exposición destacada fue Engánchate en el Centre d’Art la Panera de Lleida en 2010.

Otras exposiciones destacadas fueron en el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (CBA) en Madrid y Blue Star Contemporary en San Antonio, TX. Pablo Pérez Sanmartín ha expuesto con Carles Congost y Diana Larrea.

Figura entre los 1.000.000 mejores artistas del mundo y entre los 10.000 mejores artistas de España. La mejor clasificación de Pérez Sanmartín se produjo en 2011. Para una ilustración completa de la carrera del artista desde 2006, véase el gráfico de carrera en la página Tendencias.

Ver más:

  • Espacio 48
  • Centre d’Art la Panera
  • Blue Star Contemporary
  • Carles Congost
  • Diana Larrea
  • Antonio Ortega