I have a form of graphic rebellion: stealing images, raiding the internet, and creating something more, to make a remix of street nostalgia.
Category: Art
REX BANTRON. <Esp>
Siempre es mi origen y mi esencia; que soy una rata de la Ciudad de México. Esa intensidad se traslada directamente a mis cuadros, los cuales concibo como un collage total de la esencia callejera: una mezcla caótica de pintura, esténcil, rótulos, manchas y grafiti. La Ciudad de México es intensa y mi idea también: crear intensamente.
MISTER SISTER. <ENG>
Each Mister Sister is born from a moment charged with emotion. Some stem from searing pain; others, from rage. Some arose from euphoria, others from anguish, others from despair. Others were completed amidst the weariness of a heavy, drawn-out patience, while others took shape to the rhythm of a song played a thousand times in a row. It was always an intense exercise of pencil against paper, ensuring the strokes conveyed nothing contrary to what I was feeling.
MISTER SISTER. <ESP>
Cada Mister Sister nace de un momento cargado de emoción. En algunos hay un dolor punzante; en otros, rabia. Algunos nacieron de la euforia, otros de la angustia, otros de la desesperación. Otros fueron terminados en el hastÃo de una paciencia pesada y otros funcionaron al ritmo de una canción que fue reproducida 1000 veces seguidas. Era siempre el ejercicio intenso del lápiz contra el papel y el cuidado de que los trazos no dijeran algo contrario a lo que sentÃa.
Xenix on Social Networks – Pain, Truth, and Permanence
I feel like every creative should have an opinion on what they like and don’t like. You need to be true to yourself and what you think, but also open to change and differences in mentality. Even if I disagree with someone’s art or tattoos, it’s a person who found their way to make a living creatively and pushed through whatever they had to do to make it. So, fair enough. Let the next newcomer try to do their thing.
Twin Arrows, AZ.
Twin Arrows is a ghost town off of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona, located on historic Hopi & Diné
Sob Story.
I think Sob Story as a moniker aligns with a lot of people’s lives — everyone has their sob stories they tell themselves, everybody has their excuses in life. It was born from a moment in time when things weren’t going my way, but almost satirically. I think a lot of my work depicts a funnier side of life. But the name itself comes from a Minor Threat song.
SUPERCHIEF GALLERY // LIFESUXBILLRULES
To me, the art gallery world always represented something very elitist and bougie. What we started doing with Superchief was bringing a lot of working-class people into the fold, because everybody we created with were just kids from the gutter trying to make it happen like us.
CORAZÓN MALEANTE <ESP>.
Siento que todo desde mi niñez en Colombia – la gráfica popular, las cartas de amor que se regalaban en los 90s, las dedicatorias de canciones, el merengue – han hecho que mi trabajo se centre en un tema más ‘romántica…’ Pero en una manera más profundo que simplemente tener pareja; también se trata de poder dar amor a tus amistades y al mundo que te rodea, que solo algo estético.
CORAZÓN MALEANTE <ENG>.
I feel that everything from my childhood in Colombia – the popular art, the love letters that were given as gifts in the 90s, the song dedications, the merengue – has made my work focus on a more ‘romantic’ theme… But in a deeper way than simply having a partner, it’s also about being able to give love to your friends and the world around you, not just something aesthetic.