Zosen, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1978.
Vive y Trabaja en Barcelona. Live and work in Barcelona.
Artista Visual. Su primer contacto con la cultura urbana es el skate y, posteriormente, el graffiti. Influenciado por el movimiento Punk y la premisa del “Do it yourself”, empieza como autodidacta y más tarde cursa estudios de arte en la Escuela La Llotja de Barcelona, convirtiéndose así en Técnico Superior de Artes Plásticas y Diseño. Miembro activo de la escena de graffiti de Barcelona desde comienzo de los años 90’s también formó parte del grupo Ovejas Negras (ONG).

Zosen sigue desarrollando proyectos murales de pequeño y gran formato aparte de dar clases y cursos en torno al arte urbano y espacio público. Su repertorio abarca desde la ilustración, performance, video, autoedición o diseño de moda. Es co-fundador del  sello de moda “Animal Bandido”.

Participa en exposiciones y eventos tanto nacionales como internacionales y su obra se ha expuesto en galerías europeas, asiáticas y de América del Norte y del Sur.

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Filled with neon colors, geometric patterns and symbols, Zosen’s paintings immerse the viewer in their vivid imagery. The artist creates his proper mythology, flooding walls and canvases with fantastic characters that reveal his commentary on the happenings of our own world.

An active member of the Barcelona graffiti scene since the early 1990s, Zosen continues to produce projects that carry the anti-authoritarian spirit of his early days in the punk and do-it-yourself movements. After immigrating to Barcelona from Buenos Aires as an adolescent, he began to experiment with different graffiti styles, combining social criticism with amusing characters and letters. In 2001 he became a member of the celebrated crew Ovejas Negras (ONG). Though the crew has disbanded, he continues to collaborate with its former members as well as artists of different disciplines from around the world.

The influences of skateboarding, fanzines and street culture permeate Zosen’s contemporary work, both on the street and in the studio. His murals bring color and spontaneity to the austere gray of the urban landscape of Barcelona as well as many other international culture capitals. But despite their playful aesthetic, Zosen’s paintings speak out against the social injustices he perceives.

The multi-colored, two dimensional characters, though naive at a first glance, criticize the corruption of today’s society. Folkloric elements combine with the excesses of post-modernity, creating a new vocabulary of symbols.

While Zosen paints on the streets frequently, his repertoire has expanded to include performance art, printmaking, illustration and fashion design. He has shown his work in galleries in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Zosen constantly invents new artistic projects and urban interventions.
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