Cruz Calatrava

Cruz Calatrava is a collagist that shares his artistic imaginary of a world that fascinates him since he can remember: the comic. Each comic contains a whole universe with different stories, characters and words. The artist has always been attracted by what they told and showed as well as what, in his imagination, they insinuated or hide. Cruz Calatrava are the surnames of his mother and grandmother. It is his personal tribute to the women in his family, those who bought him comics every Saturday morning when he was a child and who, even without knowing it, have greatly influenced his way of seeing things.

"Old comics and old illustrated paper are my raw material. I play with them to create parallel stories. I mix disparate elements that give rise to impossible scenes, I decontextualize vignettes, I multiply the same character and make it dialogue with itself as if it were a storyboard, I change scales and sizes, I eliminate the original texts so that the viewer can complete them. and a new meaning to history... In short, My collages are an invitation to discover what comics don't tell. ”

Cruz Calatrava