1.Wall art for MCB
Rosalia’s inspired illustration for a mural at Barcelona’s Wax Museum (MCB)
I was chosen to participate in a workshop organized by my university in collaboration with Barcelona’s Wax Museum. During this workshop, we got to choose one celebrity from a list of the ones that were exhibited in the museum and create a design that would later become a three meters long mural. We were free to create what we wanted but it had to represent the personage, without portraying him or her literally. The objective was for the mural to be kind of a riddle, where the viewer had to guess who was being represented or find him within the drawing.
I choose to create my wall art around Rosalia, a singer from Barcelona, because not only do I admire her, but because she has a cool imaginary, full of iconographies and different elements that I could represent. I decided to draw the full image by hand and, taking as reference renaissance paintings, created a scene full of people who had worked with her, as well as other characters and components that appeared in her music videos. I also framed it with gemstones and roses, just like her iconic nails and jewelry. The goal was to create a really kitsch scene, full of different things that represented her that the viewer could start finding while he stared at the image. The original drawing (which dimensions were 100x70cm approximately) was then scanned and augmented to fit the wall where it’s exhibited right now, in front of the museum.
Comission for MCB
2022
2022