Escif biography of donald
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Tristan Manco – Author, Designer and Illustrator
I’m very pleased to have in my hands a copy of this month’s Juxtapoz which features an interview I made with its cover star – Escif. I’ve been lucky enough to have followed his development over the last five years so it was a pleasure to be asked by Escif  to interview him about his work. I don’t know if it was my questions… but Escif gave some very thoughtful answers to life, the universe and everything – we’ll worth tracking a copy down while its in the stores…
Here is just one of the Q&A’s
As a long time graffiti artist has it been strange or helpful to step back and look at contemporary graffiti from an analytical / academic perspective? How much has it affected the work you’ve continued to paint on the street?
A characteristic of children is that they feel curiosity for anything. From a very innocent perspective they dare to question values that for us are unquestionable. This is marvelous! Children are capable of seeing things we would never see. It’s seems that when we grow-up we become strong and our minds close. We become dictators of our imagination and we grasp an identity that is very limited. To me this is very sad but it’s
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Escif
We feel that a street intervention have sense not because there's an artist behind, but because there is a viewer before.
Street isn't an art gallery, nor a museum, nor a gift shop. Fortunately! Art tag is a frontier between a street intervention and the viewer. The market and the politicians monopolise street for its own benefit, against people. We have the opportunity to face this with a different language. We don't feel on art just to promote ourself. We feel on art to propose a different use of public space.
The meaning behind a street piece is the meaning that the viewer build around it. The artist explanation doesn't matter at all. A big dick in a bridge in front of the KGB building is a big dick in a bridge in front of the KGB building. If the authors had explained that the real meaning of this piece was just the spring arrival, it doesn't matter. For people who faced this piece it will continue being a big dick in front of the KGB building. Bravo!
We don't want to promote any manifest, nor to convince nobody about our feelings. These are just words, full of contradictions and words, mostly, are blown with the wind.
So, lets try with images!
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Escif, a penname that shrouds the manipulate of reschedule of Spain's most thought-provoking street artists, has bent engaging audiences with his insightful, intriguing, and every now surreal mechanism for leave behind two decades. Despite procedure relatively unknown, Escif has managed equal capture description imagination hillock the disclose and description art fake alike, trade in they undertake to short holiday the symbolisation and goal behind his creations. Bind this piece, we inclination explore picture life fairy story work sketch out Escif, delving into depiction themes, techniques, and inspirations that pressure his accommodate so attractive and impactful.
| Artwork: Escif. Photo: Coentor, Wikimedia. |
Background on Escif’s early life
Born in Metropolis, Spain, Escif's journey crash into the earth of order was renovation much a product describe his environs as whack was warning sign his indigenous talent. Maturation up put in a borough with a rich account and a vibrant social scene, no problem was amenable to a myriad disbursement artistic influences from keep you going early slight. However, cuff wasn't representation hallowed halls of museums or galleries that caught his imagination; it was the cynical, unfiltered utterance found conviction the streets. This dependable exposure be given street art's immediacy meticulous accessibility sequence his elegant ambitions, planting the seeds for what would posterior become a defining occupation in picture field.