When he was commissioned by a Madrid collector to portray Rafa Nadal, Marco Gómez Maseda (Castellón, 1977) was creating the collection of bullfighters that he exhibited at Las Ventas. And although his delivery times are at least six months, “he was so saturated with bullfighters that the day after the order he already had Nadal. I did not sleep all night. If I'm passionate about the character, painting it is like an obsession”. Of the tennis player, he highlights “his winning mentality. He is capable of coming back from games when he is exhausted, and he seems like a great person to me ”.
Maseda has never been a graffiti artist, but he fuses street art with academic techniques to capture the essence of the characters he portrays. He does it in black and white, because "it has to do with what I think about life, I'm a misanthrope," he says, but, at the same time, the fluorine strokes and splashes in his work are "the counterpoint of life ”. He does not usually accept portraying ordinary people and prefers to focus on celebrities, on which he exhaustively documents "the good and bad things that have happened to them."
This artist from Castellón, whose most recent exhibition has been 27'S Club, a tribute to seven great musicians who died at the age of 27 (such as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse or Janis Joplin), is preparing a series on "four great Pablos” and works on two scenes from the film El radiación, because cinema is another of his inspirations.
