First look at my show The B Side in Tashkeel, Dubai.

We are ready for the party!

Got some new fresh prints out of Tashkeel’s kitchen: “Al lío”. Edition of 20 screenprints, 2 colors, 64x90cm. Signed and numbered.
Drop me a line if you’re interested

One last piece before leaving Barcelona, a skateboarder shaman in an abandoned factory.

Great news today

Me gusta cuando callas porque estas como absenta.
Barcelona 2013

Red + Black + Tashkeel + a clean white wall + Estevan Oriol + guys skating around + David Choe + Dubai + myself + freestyle + a broken light

= amazing evening.

Skateboard and art magazine UNO is out in the streets with an explanation of why I’m in Dubai, some questions and a bunch of my latest artworks. Thank you guys!
You can get it for free in your nearest skateshop or read it online here. (Only in spanish)

Al Bastakiya is one of the oldest residential areas in the city of Dubai.The locality lies along Dubai Creek and its unique architecture includes narrow lanes and wind towers, as well as the Al Fahidi Fort, the oldest existing building in Dubai.

I painted this guy in one of its amazing corners, chilling like they used to do 100 years back, when Bastakiya was the residence for expatriate families. 
Mix of geometrical colorful patterns and black & white freehand stylo.

Just fooling around in the studio with some sprays and a cardboard…

Those good things at Middle East #3

Happy to be back on screenprinting.
“El Rey del Mambo” is my new work: an edition of 15 screenprints with 3 different handpainted background colors. Signed and numbered with love.
64x90cm

Here is the solution to the lack of beach paddle supplies in Dubai. After searching in seven hundred shops with no luck I gave up and decided to build my own racquet. My friend Amartey built a crazy one too. Tested and approved!

Canopi is the name of the project I’ve been working on these past days, a skate oasis/perfect bowl surrounded by trees located in Tashkeel, Dubai.
Even the bowl is half finished we couldn’t have wait to skate it, also we are still working on making of this one of the most comfortables places to skate, but everything will be ready for Jan 25th, the grand opening!

At first this was supposed to be just a “warm up” painting. When I paint animals I normally choose animals that somehow I feel related to. When I came to Tashkeel, I felt very attracted to the local fauna of the region; I spent some time researching it as well as visiting the Arabic Wildlife center in Sharjah; and I found enough inspiration to start this project: Day and Night diptych. (The fox is one half of the diptych-depicting day; the next one is in progress)

The diptych is about local animals of the United Arab Emirates that I feel related to, I see them somehow behaving like graffiti writers: they move slightly, quietly, observant, with their crew or alone, also rivalry and fights exits (in fact the next painting is a famous fox predator). Basically I find “clandestinity” in them.

Although both of the animals in the two paintings co-exist at night, as well as in the day sometimes, I wanted to separate them by Day and Night as an not easy exercise of color coexistence.“
 

Desert Fox. Part of "Day and Night diptych”.
Acrylic on canvas. 150x180cm

I’ve just met these guys during my breakfast today. Clockwise: Pako Koala, WierdBeard, Mami Rumba & Mad Jack. 

Sneak peak of my 1st piece in Tashkeel. 

We’ve been today at Raw Coffee Dubai painting coffee sacks with local and foreign artists for a charity event destined to coffee farms in Ethiopia. Good company, very good coffee and loads of creativity. As Ice-Cube says: Today was a good day…