Within the last few years Manolo Mesa has been moving fast forward bringing still life into urban contemporary adding this old expression to the streets.
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About his work Mesa tells the following:
“In the material there is an intrinsic meaning in itself, like the meanings that we already assign to it. We find in it a connection with space and everyday objects, sometimes found, inherited, anonymous and full of words that evoke a recognizable and close place.
"When we talk about a ceramic jug we are not just talking about how to keep the temperature of the liquid or the motives on the jug. These are just the functions of it. The jug also presents a story connected to the past.
To place an everyday-tool like this is the middle of a mural is a way of recognizing the past and our grandparents and the meaning the jug has had to these people. It's about the artistic practice serving to identify the value of the many layers and personal values a jug like has meant to people."
Manolo Mesa, born in 1989, began painting graffiti with his older brother Francisco Mesa in 2002. Since then his activity and evolution in urban art has developed in his hometown of El Puerto de Santa María until he entered the University of Fine Arts in Seville in 2008. At this point, he decided to put aside the more traditional world of graffiti to start his pictorial work on walls. Since then, he has lived in different cities such as Perugia (Italy), Bilbao, and Paris.
Big thanks to Plus Malergrossisten Aalborg, LOXAM Denmark, Café Ulla Terkelsen London and Din Vitamin Bar