SEBASTIAN
Velasco
Velasco SEBASTIAN
ARS
THE STIST
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ABOUT HIM
Sebastiรกn Velasco Navarro Burgos, or simply Sebas Velasco (1988), is a renowned Spanish painter, graffiti and street artists whose exceptional body of work includes a wide variety of different themes and techniques, which range from contemporary figurative painting to illustration. Velasco started drawing as a small child and in 2004 he began writing graffiti on the walls of his hometown of Burgos. After graduating in Fine Arts in Bilbao, he continued his artistic education and studied illustration in Barcelona. Gradually moving toward working on canvas Sebas Velasco maintained a continuous activity in the streets, regularly painting walls in the streets of Spanish and European cities. Employing a rather extraordinary naturalist technique, Velasco creates mesmerizing artworks of unique aesthetics, that take their viewers into a blurred and fleeting universe similar to that of their own memories.
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WITH
INTERVIEW
SEBAS
– HOW DID IT ALL START FOR YOU, AND WHAT IT IS TODAY? Since I was child I liked to draw, but I started painting in the street with a group of teenage friends from the neighborhood of Gamonal (Burgos/ Spain). They used to do graffiti near train tracks. When I started college in the Basque Country my perspective was opened tas I met more people. Today I am interested in Street Art mainly because it allows me to face larger formats and different approaches. It’s very different to work in the studio, it also brings communication with people and with my street art colleagues. I like to make interventions with friends is an opportunity to meet with them, travel to see new places and integrate them. 6
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-STREET ART IS MOSTLY A FORM VISUALLY STIMULATING ART. TO ADD ANOTHER MEANING TO IT, WHAT MUSIC WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCOMPANY YOUR ART WORK? I listen to any type of music, I would not select a specific type of music.
-IN ANY FORM OF ART, INSPIRATION IS CRITICAL. WHAT INSPIRES YOU? For me ,inspiration is rather a natural thing, a spontaneous process, my experience in the street creates this process, for example when I go out to paint with other artists I take my camera and take photos to remember the “ambient” that I can later use in my paintings. I really feed my art with many references from cinema to literature. Lately I focused my work on concepts such as the night.
-WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE PEOPLE FIRST THINK OF, OR FEEL WHEN THEY SEE YOUR WORKS? I do not know what they might think, I suppose there are some people who don’t even noticed my work and others that might be attracted somehow.
– AS AN ARTIST, DO YOU FEEL HAVING SOME KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS SOCIETY? I am aware that working in the streets carries some responsibility, just as you can use it to transmit messages in a more direct way.
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PAINT PE
TINGS: EOPLE
UP RIGHT:
St 6 Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm UP LEFT:
St 8 Oil on wood, 20 x 20 cm DOWN LEFT:
St 3 Oil on wood, 30 x 30 cm
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UP RIGHT:
St 2 Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm UP LEFT:
Gatos Flacos Oil on wood, 20 x 20 cm DOWN RIGHT:
Le coq Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Derok Oil on Canvas, 41 x 32 cm UP LEFT:
Jank Oil on Canvas, 27 x 35 cm DOWN LEFT:
Rage II Oil on Canvas, 27 x 35 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Gero Oil on canvas, 46 x 61 cm UP LEFT:
Festival Tribu Oil on Canvas, 130 x 162 cm DOWN RIGHT:
Rocieros Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Riots Balad Oil on Canvas, 100 x 120 cm UP LEFT:
Rolees Oil on wood, 60 x 80 cm DOWN LEFT:
St Oil on Canvas, 146 x 114 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Yubia Oil on Canvas, 65 x 100 cm UP LEFT:
Tunel-kod-Beton-Hale Oil on Canvas, 114 x 146 cm DOWN RIGHT:
Partidillo 3 Oil on Canvas, 60 x 73 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Criter Oil on Canvas, 73 x 100 cm UP LEFT:
Byer Seck Oil on Wood, 61 x 76 cm DOWN LEFT:
Bar Patillas Oil on Canvas, 100 x 114 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Pos l’temps pour les regrets Oil on Canvas, 33 x 46 cm UP LEFT:
Gorri Como el demonio Oil on Canvas, 146 x 114 cm DOWN RIGHT:
H2SO4-&-O Oil on Wood, 54 x 90 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Township Rebellion Oil on Wood, 54 x 90 cm UP LEFT:
Derok-Dulk Oil on Canvas, 100 x 73 cm DOWN LEFT:
Nadie, Derok y Heits Oil on Paper, 68 x 122 cm
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UP RIGHT:
Nadie y Heits Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80 cm UP LEFT:
Kaele y Nadie Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80 cm DOWN LEFT:
Frik Oil on Wood, 60 x 80 cm
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PAINT BUIL
TINGS: LDINGS
Stain Oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm
BU-8504-N Oil on wood, 30 x 20 cm
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Sens Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm
Benit II Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm
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Chiken Bar Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm
Ulica Vojvode Suplijca Oil on canvas, 73 x 100 cm
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CarlsWerk Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
La Boheme Oil on wood, 20 x 20 cm
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Arenes Bellpuig Oil on canvas, 89 x 114 cm
Nagua Oil on wood, 54 x 65 cm
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Derok, Pose y Limber Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Estaciò de servei Bellpuig Oil on canvas, 116 x 81 cm
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WALLS: jects
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WA R S AW
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ubran vision 34
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rijeka
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zaragoza 38
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gemona
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nagua
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PRO BIEN
OJECT: NNALE
BIENNALE: A N G E L O G A R O FA L O 46
The 2016 Edition of the Angelo Garofalo Biennal, as from this year “Bag Out”, starts with the intervention of Sebas Velasco in via Città Gemellate in Lioni (AV). Supported by elevator and armed with paint, rollers and brushes, Sebas started his mural on 15 July and continued to work on it for three days. The idea for the mural was conceived along with Manolo Mesa: walls they worked on are close, so they tried to create a correspondence between the two murals. Thinking about the subject Sebas and Manolo focused on a classic theme, figurative, that reflected the identity of the territory on which the opera was intended. A major source of inspiration was
the picture of Angelo Garofalo that his son Dario had shown them by mail: in the picture there is a pensive man, scanning the horizon for the front door. When Sebas arrived in Lioni, he searched for an image, a concept that would draw in that atmosphere. He was looking for a local character who was part of the community. In the mural he tried to convey that sense of real-life through the details, like the shade of the Pergola and especially the door that, besides being an element in common with Angelo Garofalo’ picture, becomes here a “wing� from which seems to leave Mr. Alfonso, the man painted in the mural but everyone can have its own interpretation of the mural.
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