Artist Feature: David De La Mano
...mundane city walls into a montage of silhouettes...
Spanish artist David De La Mano transforms mundane city walls into a montage of silhouettes, intertwining the human form with nature. His monochromatic imagery first appears as a simple whole slowly pulling the viewer into the chaos of human existence- thought, isolation, communication, rejection, function, reflection…
De La Mano oftentimes collaborates with artist Pablo S. Herrero who founded “Movimiento Señora,” a mural project with the intention of developing murals in urban outer-lying and marginal areas containing abandoned spaces. “We try to find a logic in the aesthetics without losing the reason why we use public spaces: provoking ideas, fostering looks and breaking the neutrality.”
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David De La Mano is an explorer of human behavior, the masses of people, conflicts and contradictions. Since 2008 he has combined his work as an artist and illustrator with his work as a street muralist. He has painted murals throughout Spain, Montevideo (Uruguay), Stavanger (Norway), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lima (Peru), Florianopolis (Brazil) and Florida (USA).