Last evening was the opening of TÀPIA, a collective exhibition organised by the Barcelona-based project B-Murals and curated by Axel Void at Nau Bostik.
Titled “Tàpia”, the Catalan word for a wall that gets filled with random elements to divide rooms in often derelict spaces, either provisionally or permanently, underlines the playful artistic interaction that often occurs in art between limitations and the opportunities this presents. The idea with the exhibition is to expose the role street art plays in our society through the work of 24 of the most renowned artists of the so-called Neo-Muralist movement today. Showing some of most transgressive contemporary realism in order to open a discussion around the use of the urban landscape, the reinterpretation of disused elements and, of course, the values inside a kind of art intended for public spaces.
Today there are artists or groups of artists seeking, through Neo-muralism, to appropriate reality, while recovering spaces in a creative way. But Neo-Muralism is a diverse movement. For some artists it’s all about pleasing the eye of the beholder, while for others Neo-muralism is a power struggle, a strategy for people to re-appropriate spaces and create critical works driven by the social reality they live in. It generally aims to question our relation with society and public space.
TÀPIA features the work of Alberto Montes | Ana Barriga | Ana Langeheldt / Lahe178) | Elisa Capdevila | Emilio Cerezo | Fafa Marquez | FaithXLVII | FilioGalvez | Franco Fasoli (Jaz) | Hyuro | Ivan Floro | Jofre Oliveras | Laguna | L.E.O. | Sekone | Milu Correch | Mr Kern | Sainer | SatOne | Sebas Velasco | Yaro | Crow | Zoer | Helen Bur and Axel Void himself.
The exhibition also includes some mural interventions made made the days before the exhibition opening that, following the line of TÀPIA, reflect the intrinsic values of street art and realism, embodied on the walls of Nau Bostik.
THE CURATOR
Axel Void (Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs) was born in Miami in 1986 to a Haitian mother and a Spanish father. He was raised in Spain from the age of three, where he was strongly influenced by classical painting and drawing. Since a young age, Axel Void was in contact with the graffiti scene. He also studied Fine Arts in Cádiz, Granada, and Sevilla, and based himself in Berlin until moving to Miami in 2013, where he currently resides.
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Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
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