Inauguration this Thursday, November 30th at 8PM.
Exhibition runs from December 1st till February 10th, 2017.
Some years ago, while graffiti was at its boiling point in the center of the city, something very big was cooking up outside of the capital.
The setting: enormous concrete walls that make up the landscape of the urban freeway system, train lines and abandoned factories lent themselves to a group of kids who were armed with paint, and dedicated themselves to giving a new life to those spaces that lacked it.
The suburbs were flooded with colors provided by the boys from Mixed Media. It was a new landscape, a new way to understand street art through large format murals and bombing in which, among others, one name was repeated: GR170. The name was composed of letters and numbers, characters with bulging eyes that were painted up to astounding heights, and had extra thick outlines which defined his individual style.
Suburban Folk is his first solo show, and Montana Gallery Barcelona is the place where his paintings and sculptures of varying formats and techniques will be displayed. They all have one common denominator: life on the outskirts of the big city. This is a contemplation about the post-contemporary, the millennials, and current urban aesthetic, yet without losing sight of the origins from where it all began.