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CUBES MADRID BY MADRID STREET ART PROJECT
2024/06/11

“Arte al Cubo” returns reinvented under the name “CUBOS Madrid” , a project for the artistic transformation of one of the most iconic places in the center of Madrid. CUBOS Madrid, the cultural and art project, participates in the Pasaje de los Cubos with more than a dozen urban artists. From June 8 to 16 , Suso33, Sabek, Rosh, Marta Lapeña and more than a dozen urban artists will capture its walls and walls a series of works that will transmit his perception, his experiences and his vision of Madrid.

The Spanish capital has a great artistic proposal and has an innate passion for promoting talent. Following this trend, MERLIN Properties, the real estate company that owns the commercial and office spaces in Plaza de los CUBOS, has opted for Madrid Street Art Project to transform, improve and beautify this emblematic passage. A proposal for comprehensive intervention of the space, with the presence of urban art on its walls.

Between Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 16, 2024 , artistic interventions by 16 different authors will take place. This new open-air art gallery will have 11 pictorial interventions, 1 intervention on the staircase, 2 tape-art, 1 woven intervention and a rotating wall by call.

After its last editions in 2017 and 2018 under the name Arte al Cubo, this cultural project returns reinvented with the aim of completely transforming the space, with new artists and a new concept: CUBOS Madrid. The number of artistic interventions is expanded, in total 16 collective artists of local and national relevance whose common thread is their special bond with the city of Madrid.

Names like Suso33, Taquen, Creto, Ramón Amorós, Juay, Spok, Marta Lapeña, Sabek, Rosh, Dúo Amazonas, Uneg, Diego Vicente, TAV (Tape Art Valencia), Dante Arcade, Teje La Araña or Enganchadas will exhibit their works during a year in the spaces that include Calle Martín de los Heros, Ventura Rodríguez, Plaza de Emilio Jiménez Millás and the entire pedestrian passage that connects these areas.

An opportunity for everyone: A rotating mural

In addition to the permanent mural interventions, which will be renewed annually, this year as a novelty the artistic creation programming will be expanded with the incorporation of a rotating mural. The artists and groups that act on the wall will be chosen by Madrid Street Art Proyect and MERLIN Properties through a permanently open call on the website. Every 4 months, the rotating mural will change and feature new interventions. Therefore, throughout the year 3 new artists will have the opportunity to exhibit and give visibility to their work, linked to the city of Madrid, on the walls of the Pasaje.

CUBOS Madrid is a unique project, with its own personality and unprecedented in Madrid. The goal is to create a space that is alive, ebullient, and the place is constantly transformed. May it be a reference for both other artists and the public and also be part of the daily life of the city of Madrid.

Participating artists

The architects of this comprehensive intervention will be Creto , Diego Vicente , Dúo Amazonas , Juay , Marta Lapeña , Ramón Amorós , Rosh333 , Sabek , Spok , Suso33 , Taquen , TAV , Teje la spider and Uneg , an exceptional cast that affects the idea of Madrid as an open and welcoming city, as well as a miscellany of tradition and modernity.

My name is David Sandoval, I was born in Bogotá Colombia, I am a graphic designer, I like to draw since I was a child. My first approach to graffiti and street art occurred around 2009 where I painted my first illustration in the streets with my cousin and a couple of friends.
Since 2011 I began to be part of the UMS collective and develop urban art and graffiti projects in Bogotá. During 2014 and together with the UMS collective we made several of the illustrations that would later win in calls organized by the mayor of Bogotá. In 2015, together with UMS Street art, we won a scholarship for artistic intervention on a façade located in the center of Bogotá with an area of approximately 600m2, painting the illustration titled “MACONDO”, in homage to the Nobel Prize winner in literature Gabriel García Márquez. In 2016 I began to work under the pseudonym Concreto, today Creto, where I develop urban art and illustration projects with an aesthetic that mixes graphic elements from aboriginal, indigenous, pre-Columbian or African cultures, and that at a conceptual level seek to vindicate The struggle
social. I have participated in several calls and projects and this has encouraged me to continue participating in various cultural activities, calls and free graffiti in Spain and Europe.

I am Diego Vicente , painter and muralist. I was born and raised in the municipality of Alagón (Zaragoza, Spain), where I started in the world of graffiti. It was in this environment where I found inspiration and freedom to express myself through color, understanding the street as a canvas on which to explore the possibilities of artistic expression. This passion led me to have academic training in the artistic field. I am a qualified illustrator from the Zaragoza School of Arts and Crafts and a graphic designer from the Aragon Higher School of Design.

In 2014 I moved to Madrid to be part of the artistic collective Boa Mistura, with whom I had the opportunity to grow and develop professionally throughout the map.
In 2019 I began my solo artistic career, seeking to cross unknown goals and meet new objectives. Since then, I have my own studio in Madrid, where I work daily on painting, although much of my work continues to be developed in public spaces through murals. In the artistic field I try to connect the abstract with the figurative, painting with drawing, the organic and the digital, my most visceral side with the most rational. I look for how far I can take this fusion in order to find my own language. I am interested in open and subjective interpretations of each image.

Art collective in public spaces established in 2017 by Natalia Andreoli (Argentina, 1992) and Lina Castellanos (Colombia, 1990), which was born as a space
of artistic and cultural experimentation and dialogue. They believe in art in public spaces as a place of exchange and dialogue: "a community exercise that begins with us as a team and that feeds back to the contexts and other participants in the communities, in order to achieve a narrative." Its proposal is based on the representation of the human figure, in everyday scenes or actions, since in this resource, the recognition of the common is allowed. In this way, a space is generated in which we can rethink the ways of communicating, inhabiting our environment, recognizing our history and the importance of human ties in it, through real, everyday and close perspectives.

Illustrator and urban artist from Burgos born in 1990 and based in Madrid.
I represent the situations that I live as a form of expression, my works talk about fashion, skateboarding, urban culture, with the purpose of dialoguing with the viewer. I like to give a positive message through color and shape. My style is a mix of urban art, graffiti from the 90s in New York with influences from cartoon, pop art, dadaism and alternative comic aesthetics.

Marta Lapeña is a plastic artist and muralist. Lives and works in Madrid. After graduating in Interior Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Marta Lapeña decided by vocation to devote herself to painting and researching different techniques, later focusing on the conception and development of artistic, social and personal projects.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ramón Amorós traveled with his family to Madrid, the city where he studied his Fine Arts Degree at the Complutense University while completing his degree as a Higher Technician of Illustration at the School of Art No. 10 of Madrid . Upon completing his final project he receives the National Prize for Non-University Teaching in the Illustration category. His work is versatile and usually uses different media (drawing, engraving, screen printing, mural painting, etc.) trying to combine resources from design, illustration and fine arts. The theme usually revolves around a parade of invented characters, fantastic creatures, and hybridizations.

Raúl Gandolfo , Alicante, 1977. Artist whose work was forged in interventions in public spaces. Belonging to a group of urban artists who at the beginning of the 21st century attracted the attention of the international scene. It was as a result of his contact with this discipline that his creative drive awakened until he became an artist.
multifaceted. Painting, muralism, photography, graphic design. It is in painting where he feels most comfortable, his creations in this field coexist with the medium and seek to challenge traditional notions of the genre.

His pictorial language is within conceptual abstraction, all his works try to transmit an idea or concept through the exploration of shapes, colors and textures, reinforcing the support where he creates them. Since 2010 he has lived in Madrid. Parallel to his independent work in public spaces, within the scope of mural painting, he develops a studio production that feeds off his work abroad, and vice versa.

Sabek (Madrid, 1985) is a Spanish artist, who began and carried out much of his career in Madrid. He begins his work by intervening in the streets and abandoned places around the capital, where he develops his style. Later he began to produce more graphic works and experiment with different techniques. Its unmistakable style is recognized by the representation of shapes and colors that allude to natural origin, especially in those noble and powerful animals that instill a strong feeling of respect. That is why his work raises a reflection on human beings and their relationship with nature.
On monumental walls around the world (USA, France, Spain, Malaysia, Russia, New Zealand) Sabek shows the traces that make his style so
recognizable. A mixture of subtlety and power in perfect balance with the shadows and masses of flat colors that used in an almost symbolic aspect, coexist perfectly with the most refined details. The animal representation shows the allegory between natural balance and the energy implicit in it through minimalist plant and human forms. Sabek carries out compositions without the intention of giving logic to the meaning of the symbol, so that his works rather than reflecting a reality, they create it. His work can be found in galleries in Spain, France and the United States.

SPOK BRILLOR, alter ego of Félix Reboto (Madrid, 1978). Trained since his childhood in the culture of graffiti, although he studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, the artist has never abandoned his relationship with this form of urban expression that continues to inspire his work from a nostalgic claim. Known for his spectacular and poetic hyper-realistic murals, he is currently one of the figures of international urban art. In 2008 he participated in the famous Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Parallel to his murals, he develops pieces with found neons and a workshop pictorial work that evokes night scenes with light and brightness as protagonists.

Suso33 (Madrid, 1973) is considered one of the references of graffiti, urban art and muralism. Starting from classic graffiti and street art, he has developed his work in different fields: action painting, muralism, installation, video art, performance and scenography.
Added to these facets is the curating of two major exhibitions: «Art is Not a Crime 1977-1987» (CEART, Fuenlabrada, 2018) and «Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977-1987» (Bronx Museum, NY, 2019), dedicated to the work of photographer and documentary filmmaker Henry Chalfant (United States, 1940), the greatest ambassador of graffiti culture around the world. Painting in motion, understood as a gesture and trace of the body, is the essence of a practice in which the borders between painting, performance and performing arts dissolve, and in which new technologies play a leading role. Perhaps "the absences" are the iconography that best defines the poetics of SUSO33. This synthesis of his signature in the form of a trace of the body, outlined with a continuous line, is his emblem. The absences are in public space, alone or in groups, on walls and closures, signaling states of mind of loneliness and abandonment, or depressed areas that suffered from ruthless urban planning policies.

A Coruña, Spain, 1992. Taquen works and lives in Madrid at Mundo Estudio, in the Tetuán neighborhood. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Interested in movement, changes and the relationship between humans and their environment during these processes. His work is based on his own experience within the natural environment, where he spends most of his time. Passionate about the mountains, about nature, he does not understand a society far from it. It uses natural elements to speak metaphorically about our relationships, our feelings and our instincts. Understands urban art as a tool for positive change and social cohesion. As an artist, he feels totally responsible for his work, both for the space where he works and for the people who inhabit it and the environment that surrounds him. Always seeking that the creative process involves both the community and the viewer.

Jose Miguel Piquer, Álvaro Navarro and Nadia Montero are the three artists behind TAV (Tape Art València), who use the walls of any place as canvases for the creation of their pieces. His interventions are characterized by a very visual style, of geometric shapes and fluorescent colors. The collective always develops the assembly of its installations thinking about the space in which it is going to be created, to then create the design on the computer and transfer it to reality with adhesive tapes, although sometimes improvisation also has a place. Created more than 7 years ago, it is the first group in Spain dedicated to tape art and its installations began decorating a coworking space. Their passion and success led them to carry out work for museums in just over 9 months,
fairs, artist exhibitions, etc. In 2012, the Adidas brand awarded them an award as winners of the All Originals contest that the brand held nationwide. Today they have numerous interventions behind them.

Weave the spider is the artistic project in which Adriana Turmero and Álvaro León investigate the creative possibilities and benefits present in weaving. Since 2011 they have created more than thirty works using fabrics, mostly crochet. Some of them have been prepared collectively-collaboratively and others individually. These works have starred in yarn bombings or had a very relevant presence in videos, video clips, animations, photographs, advertising and even interactive installations. They play with a set of aesthetic, social and spiritual concepts relevant to the times and changes we are experiencing. Knitting balances the masculine and feminine; vindicates the artisanal against the industrialized, against compulsive consumerism; weave real social networks by leveraging digital networks and exercise self-reliance.

Graffiti artist from Mexico City, he mainly dedicates himself to painting murals. He has been dedicating himself to urban art professionally for 14 years and his influences come from caricature, pop art and naïve art; Color and nature are very present in his work. The idea of his murals is to generate stories
fantastic, very colorful. His beginnings were in graffiti, making letters and characters, but he was always passionate about drawing and illustration. He studied at the National School of Plastic Arts at UNAM, where he began to professionalize his work, beginning to do spray illustration and muralism to this day.

Born in San Javier, Murcia, in 1992, and settled in Barcelona, Dante was introduced to the world of graffiti as a child, through urban culture in the mid-90s in his native coastal town, San Javier (Murcia), in the southeast. from Spain. He continued to make his way along different paths and draw from different sources, outside and within this culture. Today, its main influences have their origin in the 80s with the New Wave, the Memphis design movement and the golden age of Arcade video games. These years were known for crazy patterns, vibrant colors, and feathered hairstyles. The aesthetic was so influential that it continues to inspire him in his pieces today. His work is also nourished by vintage and nostalgic elements, such as classic American comics. It also does the most modern and current, such as cyberart or vaporwave, the digital subculture, created in the codes of the internet, the web and everything related to virtual space.