Diary

A journey with no destination

The Love Boat

Excited to share this project for the newest ship by Brittany Ferries, Salamanca.
A liquid gas powered lady that will be cruising between Spain and UK with a drastically reduced environmental impact.
I created many works for their indoor installations as well as some mural art for the sundeck.
It’s been a great time working on this and hey I even learnt how to drive this beast, thanks captain!
You will find a nicely curated selection of works by different artists and photographers in this ship apart of my work.

Many thanks to all the crew, specially Kimberly Poppe for the support and great vibe

©All photos by KlunderBie

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Artwork for Dani Lebron's board

Humbled to have designed this special board for my friend and Spanish legend Dani Lebrón who’s been killing the streets in style for over two decades. Thanks to Titus Skateboards for this chance
Artwork inspired by Dani’s famous gladiator breakfast.
Check below his new video part.

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Emoción - Barcelona

I have a couple of large canvases showing now at Galeria Ola in Barcelona (Consell de Cent 383).

The title and concept of the show is Emoción. That’s why we chose to show “Jeopardy” and “Crash II”, two artworks quite linked to emotional balance like I explained here. I’m happy to be surrounded in this show by the good company of Javier Mariscal, Xano Armenter, Carmen Van den Eynde and Manuel Outumuro.

Showing until April.

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Chinese New Year - Shanghai

I started the year with this big installation in Shanghai where you can find many of my works in different locations of the Showay centre on the occasion of the Chinese New Year / Year of the Tiger.

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L.A. Art Show

A couple of large canvases have been seen at the Moberg Gallery booth at the L.A. Art Show!

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Autoconocimiento

A new canvas for the Equilibrios Cotidianos series: Autoconocimiento

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Vanitas XI - NFT

I’ve been playing around with NFT’s lately, trying to get used to them before exploring possibilities within smart contracts for more complex ideas.
Here is the fourth one I mint, based on one of the different Vanitas designs I did before releasing the limited edition sculpture with Sculpturest last year.
If you’re interested, this one is available via Foundation here

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La Reunión

La Reunión (Reunited) is a 5 color screen print on Old Mill bianco 300gr paper, but it is also a celebration of those casual moments with your people that end up in mad laughter and magic conversations.

Available here

40x30cm. Limited edition of 100. Signed, numbered and delivered in a nice custom folder.
Made with love and special dedication by my usual screenprint maestro ArtPlus

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Coffee Break

I’ve been thinking about a sculpture that needs to stand on the wall, so you gotta place it in a corner or similar. This lady lost on her thoughts while having a coffee is the result of the first prototype on plywood

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A week in Dubai
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Girl with Sea Shell

La Niña que charlaba con la Caracola (Girl with Sea shell)

This new mural in the beautiful Isla de El Hierro is based on a local tale where a girl gets to communicate with Nisa, the Nature Goddess, through a sea shell. Then a lot of underwater magic stuff happens and after an intense spiritual experience she raises a special awareness of our connection with Nature. A wall to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the underwater volcano that erupted a couple kms away from this wall and made underwater life very special since then.

A project by Hisla

Muchas gracias Octa, Ampi y Dani por el buen rato con tanta calidad de gente.
The wall is located at Puerto de La Restinga, the southest point of Europe

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The Bounce
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Super excited to share with you “The Bounce” 

A new sculpture that welcomes you to the Nike European Headquarters in Hilversum, NL.

I found cool to show movement freezing in space-time, like in a scene from the Matrix, showing a giant ball bouncing down the blocks and transferring to a new dimension through the floor, a metaphorical way to show how sports can be the perfect tool for breaking physical and mental barriers.
Dopamine released from playing sports can be miraculous in many ways.

This permanent artwork is part of the new Homecourt Arena of the Nike HQ, a lovely public space that connects the different buildings where you can find green areas that contributes to local biodiversity, food trucks, a bee community, outdoor meeting spots, and a dope skatepark, right where you can spot the artwork.

Many thanks to all the Nike team involved, specially Wouter and David for their support, understanding and braveness.

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Vanitas - Limited edition sculpture

Vanitas is my new limited edition sculpture in collaboration with Sculpturest.com

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Limited edition of 50 per color - 3 different colorways
Polyamide, hand finished and painted.

24 x 15 x 10 cm

Shipping worldwide.

 “Since I was a kid I have been very curious about weird still life paintings.
To me it was like crime scenes where I had to find out the story behind those compositions. 

While most still lifes are just studies of light and color there are some special ones that particularly caught my attention and that are very present in my recent work: Vanitas, a genre mainly developed in the Baroque that highlight the transience of life, the firmness of death and how we deal with what’s in between.
The visual tension of these compositions intrigued me: the skulls, the jewels, the rotten fruits, the lobsters hanging, the fragile balance of the candles and hourglasses reminding us our limited time in life… 

I like the challenge and contrast of turning the hidden symbology of these dark elements into a colorful composition with sexy shapes while keeping that balance somehow. 
I also find attractive the idea of extrapolating this concept to our days from a positive perspective, in order to act or think in conscience: being aware of our limited time in life, understand the ephemerality and banality of material pleasures, react to the vanity that surrounds our society.”

Thanks for watching!

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Wood

Some tests on wood that I’ve been doing lately. Made from a single piece of pine wood.

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Woman, Vase & Orange

A new short edition of screen prints is available at my shop: Woman, Vase & Orange.
A reproduction of an original canvas from a recent commission. It’s a 3 color screenprint, hand finished, signed and numbered. Old Mill bianco 300gr paper. 60x80cm.
Available here.

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Crash series

I started 2021 with this idea in mind: the Crash series. Started originally with a sculpture and followed by a large canvas, this series show an external element getting in scene altering the order and balance of the composition.
External elements that break into our daily life altering our modus vivendi.

A new challenge I’ll be developing this year. I hope you like it so far.

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Street randomness

Different photos taken from my phone

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2021

Wishing you the best for this new year. Lots of good energy and creativity.
Love from my studio!

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(I’m not that serious in real life)

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Jeopardy

The latest work of 2020 in the studio has been this large black and white canvas, Jeopardy.
A woman riding a calm tiger while trying to balance different everyday items. An ode to the state of alarm intrinsic to the human being, that person who once stopped hunting animals for food and protection, and focused these qualities (alarm, danger perception, etc) on more banal problems, to the point of worrying about really stupid things in modern society generating anxiety and other mental issues

Sometimes we find predators and danger where there are none and worries where we don't need them.

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