Ciscoksl & Fafa
Opening friday, 26.th march, 7pm
Ciscoksl & Fafa are two painters from Iberia with a strong graffiti background - though in their works they combine the overwhelming brightness of classic graffiti with the power of contemporary fine art.
Fafa startet painting pretty early and as a teenager he was very attrac- ted by hip-hop culture - as graffiti ment to be the perfect thing for a young painter to be a part of it.
After studiing Fine Arts in his hometown Sevilla he sees himself as an artistic ethnologer. In the series of works that are part of his unique project about graffiti-situations, Fafa likes to do an homage to the whole graff-culture and to show his world to everybody from the point of view of an insider.
Ciscoksl is a young but very talented Artist from Catalonia, who plays many cards.
Half way between the streets and the classroom Ciscoksl ́s fascinating and sensitive wa- ter-colour paintings are full of personal and expressive life. In his series Ciscoksl transmits via mouths of others and gives them a voice by leaving them shout silently. Speech is the expression of the majority and his portraits are the lan- guage to reach a few.
Neither Fafa nor Ciscoksl were into letter styles or writing so much but much more into characters, landscapes and figurative or realistic painting, which explains the close relation to fine art in their work. But they both share the pleasure of colour and paint - the overwhelming power of the bright Iberian Colours as well as the colours of classic graffiti we all know so well.
