PROPOSAL: MUMBO JUMBO MURAL CONCEPT
BY: KIKI VALDES
This mural will be KIKI VALDES first featured mural in the Wynwood area.
The Sketch:
Presented to Tony Cho
This mural will have color, mostly primary colors mixed. it will be bright and passionate.
THE CONCEPT:
The mural itself will have cubist elements in a contemporary manner with strokes of expressionism and pop/cartoon figures that will pull in art lovers and people of all ages to this wall and property. Kiki’s spontaneous style will give a sense of freedom and progression to the area. The work will be done much in the way Kiki creates his work, aggressive yet careful to detail and loading plenty of soul. The figures represent enegry much like of a ghost, distant memory or dream. The artist uses cartoon imagery to pull in the view to age old ideas of art and life.
Example of
color use in mural.
THE LOCATION:
ARTIST BIO:
Kiki Valdes (born April 3rd 1981 in Miami, FL.) is a Cuban American expressionist painter, based in New York. Valdes’ work explores the multidimensional complexities of people, religion, American-life, sex, and superstition. His canvases tend to overlap on top of various unresolved paintings and capture a sense of association, rhythm and conflict. Kiki often refers to his paintings as studies; instead of art history’s draw toward the female or still-life, Valdes explores the use of 1990’s cartoons with expressionistic tendencies. His appropriation of Disney/Nickelodeon characters is a starting point for him to redefine his understanding of the subject. The work can best be described as a marriage between abstract expressionism, cartoons and Caribbean folklore. Kiki Valdes is represented by the Michael Margulies Artist Agency.
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