Ampparito, el artista urbano que obliga a mirar dos veces

Un autobús cubierto de mimbre, un mural gigante con una carpeta de Windows o una canasta de baloncesto reflejada en un espejo son algunas de sus desconcertantes creaciones. Su obra y la de otros 14 jóvenes podrá verse en el Swatch Creative Natives Festival de Madrid hasta el 28 de octubre.

Ampparito

Ampparito es uno de los artistas que muestran sus obras en el Swatch Creative Natives. Foto: Swatch / Instagram @ampparito

Ampparito (Madrid, 1991), que en su DNI se llama Ignacio Nevado, no escogió tener la calle como principal escenario para su obra. Terminada la carrera de Bellas Artes, se fue a vivir a Londres, donde trabajó a regañadientes para una agencia publicitaria, y se encontró “sin acceso a ningún círculo artístico, sin galería, sin becas ni residencias”, así que la única solución estaba puertas afuera. Su trabajo se basa en el desconcierto y obliga al que se cruza con él a mirar dos veces para asegurarse de que sus ojos no le engañan. ¿Es eso una canasta de baloncesto completa, o tan solo media, reflejada en un espejo?, ¿qué hace un autobús urbano cubierto de mimbre?, ¿y un parada de autobús rural pintada de camuflaje naranja? Su obra tiene dos dimensiones: una pictórica, con grandes murales de objetos cotidianos sobredimensionados, como la carpeta de Windows que pintó en el museo de Street Art de San Petersburgo, y otra más escultórica, que deforma elementos cotidianos hasta hacerlos extraños. “El desconcierto es un buen activador –defiende– ante este maremágnum de información e imágenes que recibimos, lo bueno que tiene el absurdo es que te hackea la realidad. Por lo general es todo tan pragmático que cuando ves algo distinto, no lo entiendes. Ha llegado un punto en que te preguntas: “si esto no es publicidad, ¿por qué está aquí?”.

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ABOUT HITTING YOURSELF @parsecute and @madridstreetartproject invited me to a meeting with other artists in Castrogonzalo. I though this would be a good chance to keep working on the series modifying goals and basketball backboards I have been doing these last months. This time was a super easy one in terms of aesthetic, but the trickiest. If the previous ones were subtler trying to avoid people scoring, now I only put half of the backboard and the hoop, the rest was a great mirror I found a night walking in Madrid. Basically it’s an exemplification of how an illusion can avoid you to go through something by making you hitting with yourself, if you just see it from far away it’s fine, but as soon as you try to materialize it becomes impossible. Video by @esquie_ coming soon #ampparito #basket #art #mirror #street #streetart #arte #baloncesto #aro #landscape #installation #painting #paint #spain #basketball #nba #acb

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El artista está entre los 15 seleccionados para formar parte del Swatch Creative Natives en Madrid, que reúne en un espacio de la calle Gobernador de Madrid a figuras emergentes de la escena artística madrileña, aunque no para hacer exactamente lo suyo, sino otra cosa, el resultado de un trabajo en grupo con otros artistas. A Ampparito le ha tocado trabajar con la fotógrafa y editora Gema Polanco y la escenógrafa e ilustradora Lydia Garvín. Juntos, y bajo la tutela del artista Carlos Maciá, han ideado una experiencia que no pueden revelar del todo pero que tiene que ver con la erosión que sufren las calles con el paso del tiempo. “A diario no se notan esos cambios, así que nos interesaba acelerar ese proceso para hacerlo visible”, explica.

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Normally I paint objects on surfaces, this time I put a surface on an object. I had the chance to be part of @nuartfestival project with @kolumbus.as . The idea was to reimagine a bus, reflecting on its essence and the basis of public transport. While we developed this project I was in Laos. Almost every day I took a bus in all its variations: local, sleeper, big, small, old. This made me realize that I have seen buses everywhere I have been – from the poorest to highly developed countries – and all of them have something in common; this is most evident in Argentina where buses are called “colectivo”. This word means ‘collective’ or ‘group’ and I think it’s quite meaningful, after all public transport works because of a community, people with same interests creating a ‘net’ in order to be stronger and more efficient, combining efforts. It’s a fact that the more developed a country is the more individualistic its people are. This makes sense because it’s not necessary to share in order to have things. I love wicker, the colour, its shape and mechanical properties. Camaron sang that he thought of himself as wicker because even when swayed by wind he would stand firm. Even so I like wicker more as a group, interacting with other units of wicker; it’s like life, small fibres stepping over and going down being stepped over by others. Balance is the key: if you only step over or only go down it’s impossible to intertwine. However, if you build relations with other people, which means ups and downs, winning and losing, stepping over and going down then, at the end of your life you get a basket. Thanks @jamesfinucane86 and @nuartfestivalen for pushing me to be more rigorous. Thanks Christian for being so helpful and kind. #ampparito #bus #art #norway #streetart #urban #urbanart #basket #wicker #relation #realtions #painting #paint

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En su agenda de los próximos meses hay proyectos en Bilbao, Tenerife, Valladolid y L’Hospitalet, donde va a crear un gran mural en colaboración con los vecinos. Una anomalía, puesto que su trabajo normalmente le lleva fuera, desde Dubai a Nueva Zelanda. “Me encanta, al final te creas tu propia familia disfuncional a lo largo del mundo. Cuando estuve en Nueva Zelanza conocí a un artista de Canadá y hace poco le invité a colaborar conmigo en un proyecto en la antigua cárcel Modelo de Barcelona”. Instagram ha abierto un nuevo capítulo para los nombres de la escena urbana, pero para Ampparito sigue habiendo algo especial en encontrarse cara a cara con los artistas que admira. “A veces te esperas a un punki, y te viene un tío que es abogado con traje. O crees que alguien es muy consolidado, y resulta ser un chavalín. Cuando trabajas con la gente descubres otra cosa sobre su obra”, y por eso está disfrutando especialmente de su experiencia con el grupo de Creative Natives.

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ABOUT FAITH I have been developing pieces related with different points of views of the same objects and how, depending on our background, believes, childhood, values, country or culture, we see the same fact completely different. It's easy to see politicians arguing about issues that should be quite objective but as soon as we are subjects we are subjective. I think every person has their own truth, when some people with the same truth gather or live together, that becomes reality. Everything changes when you go outside of your space or gather with other people, then, reality changes. Also during history it's obscene how easy reality changes, the worst tyrants become heroes and vice versa. Past times myths and religion were the way to face reality, also in some places people keep interpreting the world using those tools. In our world we tent to trust science, we face every issue by it, although sometimes becomes kind of a religion. I don't think our current way to interpret the world is better than before it's just matter of a lot of people believing the same thing. Myths, religion or sciences are just ways to face the world, there aren’t ones more truly than others; they are just different perception that is why trust is the key. If we want to understand the world, which involves see it in the same way a lot of people do, we must have faith, we must trust. Following this idea I decided not to paint the ideas I created for this year exhibition in the @strtartmuseum in Saint Petersburg. I thought it would be more accurate to take a screenshot of the folder where all the sketches texts and ideas were in my laptop and represent it. If you believe it or not it is just matter of faith. #ampparito #mural #art #street #streetart #sam #streetartmuseum #stpetersburg #russia #composition #windows #folder #faith #pic #landscape #desktop #paint #painting #urban #urbanart #public

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Entre sus nombres de referencia, hay coetáneos suyos como el valenciano Luce, pero también le nutren los músicos, los ilustradores como Conxita Herreno y cineastas como Paolo Sorrentino. Además considera a la artista plástica Esther Ferrer “la maga entre las magas”. Respecto a la escena urbana actual, cree que en España se está viviendo “el mejor momento”: “Cuando yo era pequeño, ‘arte urbano’ era un género. Ahora no. Dentro del arte urbano hay gente abstracta, figurativa, expresiva, conceptual…”.

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ABOUT  CAMOUFLAGE, APOSEMATISM AND ENVIRONMENT CHANGEABILTY (FOREST FIRE EDITION) I have been in Galicia half of this month, the idea was to chill, help and enjoy a bit with my mates from @espaciomatrioska . Taking advantage of my idleness, my friends from @pouvelle_studio gave me the opportunity to be part of one of their projects painting rural bus stops. It’s always hard to face rare structures, in this case was a super weird one. I was struggling a few days without getting anything decent, I looked for treating that project as a sculpture or installation where the environment surrounding it interact with the piece making it changeable. I came up with the idea of camouflage and how works or not depending on the background. As soon as a season change an unmovable piece of camouflage becomes theopposite, a green wheat field in spring goes yellow during summer and maybe white in winter so the same piece camouflaged in April becomes an attention signal in September. It’s widely known the problem that Galicia has with fire, every year, during summer; a massive amount of forest is burned down. There is not an easy answer for this; a lot of reasons from social to politics interact resulting this tragic end. Given this context I decided to play with camouflage but in an uncommon way. As soon as I started digging in the camouflage concept I discovered what aposematism is. Despite they are the opposite in terms of aesthetic they have in common the same goal, not to be attacked, one avoiding to be seen the other seeming dangerous. I design this fire camouflage for an eventual case of fire; I thought it could work, flames can see it like an allied. At the same time it can work like a warning sign the rest of the time, aposematism, it makes you be aware of this latent tragedy. #ampparito #galicia #art #mural #installation #camouflage #fire #streetart #rural #allariz #painting #paint #pouevelle #landscape #forest #urban #urbanart #forestfire

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A week ago I went over half of the globe to New Zealand for @street_prints Mauao, the festival's subject was “it’s the people, it’s the people, it’s the people". Normally I don’t work too comfortable with such a specific topic but I faced it like a challenge. After 35 hours by plane I was a bit dazed but I realize that since I left Madrid I had drunk a few cups of water, each one in a different position. I couldn’t stop thinking about the idea that if you see from outside of the world while I’m writing this post most of my family and friends living in Europe are handstand compare with me. If we have in mind that Mount Maunganui is antipodean of Jaen you can figure out how I’m holding my glass right now. The cup in between is the one I drunk when I was flying over Laos. Being consistent I couldn’t say the world is round, who cares! But what I’m sure it’s that every cup have 65% of water. Thanks to @organic.ash for helping also Jah and @__loviesmith for getting me here. Picture by @yoshi_travel #ampparito #cup #mural #paint #painting #newzealand #mauao #tauranga #street #streetart #art #urban #urbanart #wall #glass #water #people #streetprints #composition #landscape

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I came back to Saint Etienne for @lemurdestetienne , a billboard where every month an artist creates some intervention. December was for me. Normally I pay attention to the context but this time the only link with the environment was the color, white. I tried to play with sockets because I think it’s possible telling stories or showing situations by modifying their holes. Most of them remind me relations that I’ve seen. After 26 years dealing with people I have had a lot of relationships, all different between them, friends, classmates, flatmates, lovers, colleagues, pseudo-girlfriends, partners, teammates, etc. Sometimes long term other short term, intense or soft, it depends. I was sketching for a few days; the conclusion was that most of the occasion, with time tending to infinity, all ended up “distanced”. This specific composition is called Blanca; snow and sockets match really well. As Nils Frahm said “Isn’t love the opposite of time? Time can seem to go on forever when you are in love, but the moment you begin to grasp at the passing days, hours, minutes, then love is already beginning to decay. ‘You can’t hurry love’, as they say”. Music for lovers. Music versus time (2010). Thanks so much to @ellapitr for all those colourful dinners and moments. Thanks to @mahnei for making everything much easier even with fever and flu. Thanks to @lapasserellehg and the guys for helping me pasting the piece with -4º degrees. #ampparito #street # art # socket #lemur #white #snow #streetart #urban #urbanart # composition #painting #paint # relation # relationship #holes #nilsfrahm #blanca #blanco

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