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Hanzo Barcelona: contemporary Spanish Painter

Painter | Spain

Born in 1992

Hanzo Barcelona – Painter

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« I am a dark painter and a lively, lucid, and conscious dreamer. I always see a little further. »

Hanzo Barcelona is an award-winning artist based in Spain whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. The central theme in his works is the deconstruction of dreams and experiences reflected in people, moments, and situations. Hanzo describes his artistic practice as being marked by the search for form, the expression of feelings, and an
“ever-present synesthesia”. His distinctive abstractions are created using acrylics on canvas.

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#59 STRANGER, 2023

Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
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€300

#57 HITCHHIKER, 2023

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€300

STRANGER #56, 2021

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House slave #55, 2023

Acrylic, Watercolor on Canvas
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€250

Third Uncle #54, 2023

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STRANGER #25, 2021

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€300

STRANGER #48, 2021

Acrylic on Canvas
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€300

Third Uncle #54, 2023

Acrylic on Canvas
50x40cm

€300

ALICIA, 2022

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STRANGER #56, 2021

Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
50x40cm

€300

STRANGER #45, 2022

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50x40cm

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STRANGER #25, 2021

Acrylic on Canvas
50x40cm

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#59 STRANGER, 2023

Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
50x40cm

€300

#57 HITCHHIKER, 2023

Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
50x40cm

€300

House slave #55, 2023

Acrylic, Watercolor on Canvas
40x30cm

€250

Stranger #53, 2022

Acrylic on Canvas
40x30cm

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#51, 2022

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#50, 2022

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#49, 2022

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#46, 2022

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Minotauro, 2021

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#23, 2021

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#19 (4 of 4), 2021

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40x30cm

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STRANGER #43, 2022

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#2, 2020

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STRANGER #24, 2021

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#3, 2020

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STRANGER #43, 2022

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#5, 2020

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#22, 2021

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#16 (1 of 4), 2021

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#17 (2 of 4), 2021

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#18 (3 of 4), 2021

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#21, 2021

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#14, 2021

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#11, 2021

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#6, 2020

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#8, 2020

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#4, 2020

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Solo Exhibitions

2019
Prisma / TOC Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
2019
Øldgod / Øldgod – Barcelona, Spain
2019
Roots / Tres sueños – Badalona, Spain
2019
Get wild / TOC Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
2019
Dogma / TOC Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain

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2019
Welcome to la mercé / TOC Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain

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MEET: MARTI SAWE FROM BCN

8 Marti SAWE that can create anything out of anything. Molten-metal shelf assemblies, rainpipe life-size sculptures throughout the garden, giant square fur rabbits, and ROBOPET-themed microchip collages are examples of the “strangeness” that Marty created within the galleries. This format is one of its extremes.

There is another one – graffiti that filled the whole of Barcelona. Once a friend of ours was lucky enough to draw with SAWE: “My piece was between about five of his that he had drawn earlier.”

We talked with Marty about Barcelona through the eyes of a native and a graffiti artist, discussed a brief chronicle of the scene over the past decades, the path of an illegal artist to legal galleries, and from the side of domestic cuisine, we got an answer to a long-standing question: creativity?”

MEET: MARTI SAWE FROM BCN

Marti SAWE who can create anything out of anything. Molten-metal shelf assemblies, rainpipe life-size sculptures throughout the garden, giant square fur rabbits, and ROBOPET-themed microchip collages are examples of the “strangeness” that Marty created within the galleries. This format is one of its extremes.

There is another one – graffiti that filled the whole of Barcelona. Once a friend of ours was lucky enough to draw with SAWE: “My piece was between about five of his that he had drawn earlier.”

The first graffiti you saw – how was it for you?

Having no idea what graffiti is, I drew letters in strange fonts on the pages of school textbooks. Only later did I realize that there are people who do the same with their names on the walls. I don’t remember the first graffiti I saw in my life, but I remember the first time I got to Barcelona’s Poblenou district, full of murals. It was comparable to an explosion right in the face. Until now, Poblenou remains one of the most moving areas of the city.

You were born and raised in Barcelona, right? What is it like to live in such a city? What do you like and dislike about Barça?

Yes, I’ve been here all my life. I really like my city, although I regret that I have never participated in the Erasmus program. Usually in Barcelona it is sunny, there are mountains and the sea, and if you have free time, there is nothing better than to enjoy it all. Like all cities, it has had its best and worst years for graffiti, but now it’s paradise. Barcelona’s problem is over-tourism. Too much business revolves around it, it makes the city lose its identity.

You are one of the oldest and most active Barça writers, what can you say about the local scene? Has it changed a lot since you entered the game?

Not! Good! I was born in 1986, at that time there was already graffiti in Spain. I must be from the fourth or fifth generation. There are movement pioneers and active people, idols for me like BIZ , MUSA , FASIM , POCHO , SIXE .. There are many, many more. And I’m just a 33 year old babyface who brings weird styles to the game.

We believe that initially the Spanish scene gravitated towards the New York style. Although now the graffiti in your country is one of the craziest. Why do you think everything moved towards Ignorant?

I didn’t live at that time, but I think before Style Wars was shown on Spanish TV, there were already stencils, tags and pieces. .. Purely Spanish. “‎Style Wars” marked the explosion of hip-hop in Spain: graffiti, breakdancing, rapping, DJing. I think people wanted to draw like Case2 , Dondi , Seen …

Barcelona’s key writer was INUPIE . He did a lot of freestyle painting on the streets, without rules, completely changing the game. He later joined the VOL team, also key in terms of Ignorantstyle with PONE , KEIS , MODS … They used the 1970s style as a reference.

Also writer VINO broke many style rules, although he was focused on trains. But I would not put it in a number of Ignorant style’rov, as well as myself. I like things from a wide variety of sources, I mix a lot, try to make new stuff all the time and stay open to everything.

Who are your brothers in arms?

Often I draw alone, but I will tell you a few names of my friends with whom I also drew a lot: Rate , Guano , Baren , Kibas . I am in several teams, but the closest and oldest one is GFM .

Graffiti now – what is it for you?

Now! It’s just that right now is the weirdest time for me, to be honest. Graffiti brings me instant happiness, freedom, like a drug – easy to get and always wanting more. There are important changes taking place in my life right now, I want to be extremely focused and do everything in the best possible way. I know myself well, so I can say that graffiti can mislead me. So now I slow down. When everything is back to normal, I will draw more again. At the same time, I draw more than people who only say that they draw a lot. Yeah, boys, of course… Ha-ha-ha.

You are constantly working on new exhibitions. Tell us, did you have a “regular” job before you immersed yourself in the gallery format? And is it hard to make money with art alone?

I worked as an illustrator at Montana Colors. Then I created the audiovisual studio MANSON with my friends. For the most part, I worked in animation for 5 years, and only a year and a half ago I quit this business to immerse myself in my art. It’s hard being an artist, yes, but it’s fun.

How did you get the idea to show yourself in gallery art? Can you describe what it gives you? In particular, as an illegal artist in a legal place.

I always wanted to do exhibitions, but nothing that serious, I wasn’t ready then. And now I feel ready to play. And I don’t feel like an illegal graffiti writer. I did and do all kinds of legal and illegal stuff. Anyway, graffiti is not the backbone of my art, it’s just one of my passions. Sure, sometimes hashtags #streetart and #urbanart put me in awkward situations. Perhaps because 70% of the art under these hashtags is a bit… Well, you know :/. Although there are many cool artists with a graffiti background: Todd James , Eddie Martinez , Frédéric Plateaus , Delta , Paul Lloubet , Antwan Horfée , Tomek , Mike Swaney … Don’t know. I just want to be free to go about my business.

You often make moving art. Tell me about all this madness: sculptures made of fur and chips, drainpipes and all sorts of things from the garden … , and interesting ideas come naturally.

I made sculptures with canisters and drainpipes because I was in an art residence with zero material budget but an abandoned factory next door. I could paint canvases in my studio, but as I walked around that gigantic factory, I literally breathed in its history, collecting materials… It was magical.

In the fur and chip sculptures, 70% of the material has also been recycled. In a group exhibition with friends (Paul Lloubet, Adrien Fregosi, La Cuisine Sauvage) we decided to work with flora and fauna in a dystopian context. While making sculptures, I felt like I was crazy in the Mad Max junkyard, picking up junk and creating sculptures of animals that existed in the past.

How did you comprehend the subtleties of mechanisms and details? What was the most difficult part of creating the work?

No idea. I dismembered a Santa Claus robot, stuffed fur into a vacuum cleaner, pried things open with a screwdriver until I saw an opportunity to do something with it and follow my intuition. The most difficult step was the use of contact glue when gluing the fur: you finish already before arrival.

Contemporary graffiti: what do you like and dislike about it?

Fuck everything I don’t like and all those unwritten rules too. Just enjoy the freedom graffiti gives you!

MEET: MARTI SAWE FROM BCN

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BARCELONA, June 17 – RIA Novosti, Elena Shesternina. “Art is trash” is the title of a book by Spanish artist Francisco de Pajaro. He literally invented a new kind of art that requires nothing more than imagination, paint and rubbish on the streets.

Art is trash

A coil of old hose lying on the asphalt can be turned into a man grabbing a fence, a container with construction waste into a whale swimming in the sea, an abandoned old sofa into a grinning face, and a broken door into a zebra.

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“For me, Barcelona is a garbage paradise,” says Francisco. We met him at the Base Elements gallery, located in the Gothic Quarter of the Catalan capital, where contemporary Spanish artists exhibit their work. The cost of one of his paintings is 3.2 thousand euros. But Francisco did not always earn that kind of money. And the paradox is that it was the lack of funds that made him famous.

“I always painted pictures – something in the style between Dali and Picasso, but I could sell little. Ten years ago there was an economic crisis in Spain and almost no people bought my paintings. I could not make a living from creativity and worked as a waiter, I hated it,” the artist recalls. Francisco seriously thought about quitting painting altogether – at an exhibition organized in one of the Barcelona galleries, he could not sell a single painting.

One call changed the fate. An acquaintance who was working on his own project wanted to make a video of Francisco painting. “I came to his house, but, of course, there was no canvas. “Where can I paint?”, I asked. to paint. It all started with that,” says the artist. On the way back home, he began to pay attention to something that usually no one pays attention to – garbage on the streets.

“That’s how it all came together – the economic crisis, the government’s ban on painting graffiti, they didn’t buy my work. And I started painting on garbage,” the artist recalls. For him, this kind of creativity was primarily a social protest – against the lack of money, bad work, crisis, politics, society – “in general, this terrible country.” Thus, “street garbage art” was born.

At first, working on the street was embarrassing, he admits. “But I wanted to express myself. In addition, it was an inexhaustible source of inspiration, plus savings – the apartment was very small and there was no place for paintings, and on the street there was complete freedom,” he says.

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True, the police hindered the freedom of creativity. But this turned out to be a plus – Francisco learned to work very quickly. Literally in minutes, he creates another work.

“The only negative is that the work ends up in a garbage truck,” he says, but assures, “It’s not fundamental at all.”

He exhibited his works in social networks, which just began to develop at that time. “Social media has become my own gallery,” he says. For three and a half years, Francisco became truly famous, the press began to write about him, including foreign ones.

“A friend suggested trying to exhibit the paintings in this gallery and try to sell them. And it was a success,” says the artist. Having finally abandoned his boring job in a bar, he moved to London and worked on the streets of the British capital for eight months. “At first, I was very afraid of getting caught by the police, although I had a lot of Barcelona experience behind me. But the London police treated normally. They probably thought: “Let this crazy Spaniard draw on garbage if he wants,” says Francisco. was able to hold an exhibition in a London gallery.0006

Then there were New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dubai, Beijing. “I spent three months in New York,” he recalls, “it’s hard to endure a gringo longer. There the police didn’t know what to do with me – they had never seen anything like this in their lives. In general, everyone stood, looked, I drew. When I finished , the people gathered around started applauding, taking pictures, and everyone dispersed peacefully,” he recalls.

Now Francisco is going to Shanghai to prepare documents for a visa. There he will be provided with a room and, of course, garbage. “I will turn it into art. An artist must travel, seek inspiration, especially since in every country, in every city, garbage is unique,” says de Pajaro.

Pure art or anti-art

Francisco is surprised by his own popularity. On the one hand, what he does is anti-art. “After all, your work is dying in a landfill. And artists want their work to be exhibited in galleries and museums,” he argues. But on the other hand, it is even purer art than graffiti. “You can be banned from painting, the same locals. And you lose your freedom. Otherwise, you can immediately destroy it if you don’t like it,” says the artist.

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Francisco is going to write a book about his unusual path in art – already the second in his creative biography.

Francisco doesn’t think anything in advance – he just rides a bike or walks down the street, sees garbage, an idea instantly arises, and he gets to work. “I try not to touch anything, not to shift. I draw as it is. The more difficult, the more interesting,” says de Pajaro. The whole process takes from a few minutes to half an hour. And all this can be seen in social networks.

Recently, not all works made on the streets end up in a garbage truck. Sometimes people wait for him to finish, pick up street creations and sell them online, he complained.

“You can’t create for the sake of money or fame,” says Francisco, who became the first artist of this type of “garbage art” in Europe. “Maybe somewhere in Africa, for example, there is such a thing. But there was no such thing in Europe before me. But I have followers now.”

In addition to street art, Francisco paints pictures – the studio in which he lives is located opposite the very gallery where his work is exhibited. Now he is working on several works at once, including a commissioned portrait. Paintings are bought mainly by foreigners living in Barcelona, sometimes by tourists. Well, for Barcelona residents, it remains to enjoy free trash social art on the streets.

Pichiglas lamps

What can you do with a piece of pipe, a hundred plastic cups, bottles, a trash can, out-of-date beach shoes for women, an old colander, a broken juicer? Famous Barcelona designer Alfonso de la Fuente makes lamps and chandeliers out of them.

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Pichiglás has to thank his grandmother for his creative pseudonym. She mistakenly called plexiglass (plexiglass) “pichiglas”, in containers from which she put food.

The history of unusual lamps began in 1997, when Alfonso moved from Valladolid to Barcelona and saw how many plastic bottles can be found literally on the street. From bottles that no one needs, he began to make lamps of various shapes. At Expohogar 97, a lamp assembled from three bottles won first place. Thus began his success story.

Gradually, Alfonso began to buy more cheap products in “All for 100” stores – and lamps appeared from pipes, plastic containers and much more. For the last year and a half, Pichiglás has been working with metal.

“I take unnecessary metal products from the workshops, find old glass, give it new life, recycle and get these lamps,” Alfonso shows his works. The lamp will cost 250-350 euros. Despite the price, they are in great demand – retro is now in vogue.

In addition to his favorite lamps Pichiglás is engaged in interior design of bars, restaurants, shops, discos, hairdressers.

And now fiesta

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And with the help of rubbish that no one needs, you can arrange a holiday. Build a roof out of a worn-out balloon, confetti with a special “gun” from old magazines, take discs that you never listen to to a DJ, build an installation out of old T-shirts – and have a party called “The Rise of Things” in the center of the fine arts. HANGAR art.

The center is located on the territory of an old textile factory – like many other art centers in Barcelona’s Poblenou district. At the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century, textile production was concentrated in this area. Now it is a business district of the city with residential areas and interesting museums and galleries.

Rise of Things is one of the 130 events that took place in Barcelona during the thirteenth design week of Barcelona Design Week. “This year’s slogan is “revalue” (Spanish: “Revalorar”), that is, re-value the things we forgot about. It’s everything – things, and food, and emotions, and those little things that make us happy , but which in a fast and technological world we forget,” Isabel Roig, General Director of the Barcelona Design Center, tells RIA Novosti.

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Next to the entrance to the center is an installation by Indian designer Samira Chukkapalli and other artists dedicated to the problem of environmental environment. “This installation is about the fact that we simply have to learn again to appreciate water, air, food, but not only that – it is important to appreciate emotions, relationships,” says Isabel.

She believes that it is designers who can draw attention to environmental issues. “A million plastic bottles are produced in the world every minute. The world is full of plastic, the ocean is full of plastic. People should think about it. You go to the supermarket and they give you plastic bags for every type of food. But you can take bananas, attach a label to them. Why a bag “And the design world is now actively engaged in trying to influence this, to make the world a little better,” says Roch.

El Celler de Can Roca, one of the best restaurants in the world, with three Michelin stars, located in Catalonia, has an ambitious goal: to become a completely waste-free production. The first step is the recycling of containers in which fish and seafood are delivered. Designer Andreu Caruglia came up with a technology for making stools out of containers. The process itself is described in detail and shown in the design center. The stools will be donated to visitors of the restaurant owned by the Roca brothers, which has twice been named the best restaurant in the world.

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A festival is taking place on the street next to the museum. The most popular one is a fruit stand with a bicycle next to it. Visitors pedal hard, the bike does not go anywhere, but it squeezes juice.

“We brought products from the market that the sellers were going to throw away. But they are normal fruits. Look at this apricot – it has a broken side, but you can cut it off and make juice. Why throw it away? Our goal is to teach people to take care of food”, – explains the meaning of the action, Sanitary Inspector Dani Jimenez, who in his spare time helps the organization “Get the Benefit from Products”. The platform works with the general population of Catalonia, as well as with business owners and authorities, in order to achieve the maximum reasonable use of products. “Products that are about to expire can be given to families who need them. This is what we are trying to explain to the authorities. And companies are persuaded not to produce more than they can sell,” Dani explains.

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Two young people present the first mobile application in Spain We save eat; Since its launch in September last year, it has been downloaded by 24,000 people. Restaurants run promotions through the app – they sell at low prices what they have left by the end of the day and what they most likely will not be able to sell. “Here in this Barcelona restaurant you can now order a main course, juice and focaccia for three euros,” explains Eva Jorge. In total, 150 companies participate in the program – mostly from Barcelona, but the application is already operating in Madrid, Seville and Zaragoza. “I saw that such applications exist in other European countries.