It’s always nice to see corporate businesses supporting public art. In this case, the mobile company Tuenti based in Valencia invited the Spanish artist Dulk to paint for the #tuentiurbanartproject, which will be his last mural for the year. Curated by Urvanity-Art, “Union” tackles biodiversity, and the threat it poses to animal species.
About the Mural
A more philosophical way of viewing biodiversity is as a representation of the knowledge learned by evolving species over millions of years, and their survival through the vastly varying environmental conditions Earth has experienced.
“Union” tackles this issue by illustrating a tower of threatened biodiversity of water wildlife to mammals and land birds. Dulk’s tower includes beings from a turtle and penguin to toucans, a tiger, elk and a polar bear all depicted in a tragi-comic medium of organic colors. Perhaps Dulk selected a collection of animals that are near endangered as a warning of Earth’s bleak future, and the environmental catastrophe that could happen if it doesn’t change…
About the Artist
Antonio Segura Donat aka Dulk, is a Spanish artist, born in Valencia in 1983. As a child he copied illustrations of exotic animals he found in his parents’ collection of old encyclopedias, and took his sketchbook everywhere he went. At the age of nineteen, a close friend persuaded him to tackle the city’s walls and suggested he take the pseudonym, Dulk. Soon after entering college to study economics, but instead he decided to study illustration. He began his second year of school at the University of Valencia where he focused on graphic design.
Today, Dulk is an all-purpose artist. Between urban art, drawing, painting, sculpture or graphic design. Each medium is a challenge that he takes with pleasure and determination.
With his viewpoint that reflects the innocent mind he had as a child, he’s created a collection of tragi-comic animal themed works all painted in organic colors. His world is a surrealistic landscape full of imaginary details, rising up in factions against humanity. Perhaps these animals are warning us of Earth’s bleak future following an environmental catastrophe.
His murals can be spotted in cities all across the globe from Europe and Canada to the United States.
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