Description of the work:
In recent years, when pandemics, wars, and other smokescreens have destabilized the entire world, it's time to think about the future, our future, and yours. This summer, we saw thousands of hectares set ablaze, and we constantly see how the authorities or those responsible for preventing this destruction look the other way, making it clear that they live off us but don't count on us.
This mural speaks of stopping asking permission and solutions from the organizations that ignore us, from the Regional Governments, Provincial Councils, Ministries, and Governments, both regional and national, and starting to act, starting to be the One-Eyed in this country of the Blind, demanding and taking care of what is ours, because it is clear that none of those people sitting in an office are going to look out for you, for us.
Author: Asier Vera
Year: 2022
Technique: acrylics with brush, roller and spray
Asier Vera
“…I don't do graffiti, I don't write my name, I don't do muralism, I don't do wall decoration, signs, nor am I a painter, I don't do street art, post graffiti or neo-graffiti, I don't do exhibitions, urban art, I don't do art because I'm not an artist,
I simply paint…”
Asier, an urban artist living in El Bierzo, Donostiarra by birth, learned to learn on the streets of Madrid.
When I was 8 years old, my parents told me I had space issues. They gave me a sheet of paper and I couldn't draw on the whole surface; I only used a small corner of the canvas... Years later, I realized that there were people around me who had outgrown the sheets of paper and were using the walls as a medium to express themselves. That's when my contact with graffiti began.
At first, I looked at the works of other writers in my neighborhood, the "older ones." I used the margins of school books to write my tests. The notebooks had more sketches than notes and exercises... and at 18, I got my first spray can.
From that day until today, I have been obsessed with "this thing" that some call art and others call vandalism. I have traveled throughout Europe painting both illegally and legally, participating in exhibitions and displays. I have received several awards, including the Young Creators Award from the Community of Madrid for graffiti in 2008.
My "useful" academic training was brief but intense. Graffiti still captivated me, but I wanted something more, perhaps for my pieces to come alive and move. So at 20, I started working as a messenger to pay for my illustration and comics studies at the ESDIP (Higher School of Drawing) in Madrid. Many years later, I earned a diploma in Digital Design from the IED (European Institute of Design) in Madrid.
Being constantly in contact with the world of graffiti, rap, etc., it was easy for me to start making music videos for rap artists. To date, I have worked with several of the most important artists at a national level. These jobs I combined with my full-time job at a design studio in the capital and with freelance work for various production companies and advertising agencies.
In 2014, my life took an unexpected turn and I moved to Ponferrada, where I currently reside and where I continue to make a living with my two passions: spray painting and design.