My first contact was through some comics that I discovered at my neighbourhood school. I was about 8 or 9 years old and I started drawing at home from that moment onwards. As a child, I wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up, but little by little I realised that what interested me most was telling stories with other media.
As a child I never went to any museum or gallery. There were not many cultural stimuli in my house when I was a child. I remember that animated series and comics were my sources of inspiration during childhood and preadolescence.
The pseudonym comes from the world of skateboarding, during my adolescence. I started drawing on the "grips" of the boards that some friends and I skated on, and they began to call me "caradelija", so I appropriated that name and later used it in interventions by the city. Being a very shy person, with certain problems relating to relationships, I used it as a kind of armour against my fears and anxieties.
Yes. Duality has always been present in my work. I am a very eclectic person in my tastes and references. It is very explicit in my way of working, with different visual languages, concepts and subjects. In this double exhibition that I have presented in La Bibi, it is the first time that the character and the person were brought together in the same space, generating a dialogue to close the conceptual and personal circle. I have been working under the pseudonym "Grip Face" for 15 years. Now is a time of transition where I am exploring other conceptual and artistic paths that I want to address and also wanting to leave behind the "mask" a little and show the most intimate part of work.
Madrid has been in a cultural "buzz" for several years. There are many things happening in the capital today. From the first minute, I felt very welcomed here in the city and I also feel that it is a great source of inspiration. I am in search of balance, and sometimes I need to escape outside of Madrid to get out of the visual saturation and feel in contact with nature.
I think there is one intervention remaining, from the project: "Not rented to humans", that I carried out in 2018 on some cabins that are half hidden in the centre of the island.
Yes, this summer we have several projects. Next week I will participate in the Can Ibiza art fair, together with the Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Gallery. In July, I am preparing a curatorial exhibition in Belgium with the Verduyn gallery, and in September I will participate in the Kiaf fair in Seoul with La Bibi.
I like to take my dog "Dolç" for walks in the mountains and take a swim in some of the coves in the north of the island with friends.
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