NEMO'S

NemO's started drawing when he was so young he did not even know how to write yet. When he finished middle school, he went to an art high school in his city, “Liceo Artistico”, and then he began to enter the “writing” and street art work. When he began drawing on walls in the streets he needed to find a “Tag” for himself and decided that his name would be Nemo, like the captain from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the main character from one of Winsor McKay’s first comic strips, and, last but not least, like the Latin word for “no one”, which makes his work even more mysterious. He added ’s, the possessive case, so the translation goes from “no one” to “no one’s” and this complete the paradox of this way to identify himself. He began to write his art name on walls, then he abandoned the writing and calligraphic aspect and started reproducing his drawings on those walls. He began to use his characters and drawings to express himself and to translate his ideas into something visual that he couldn’t express with words. In his artistic career, he found interest in colours and recycled paper and found himself figuring out how he could “paint” his drawings. So far, he had only used spray paint and acrylic colours but paper had something else to it, it was alive. His work is divided into essential and graphic images, conveying a social message through made up characters that carry out poetic and surreal actions like characters in who knows which fairy tale. Lately he has been combining the “paper technique” with drawings on social themes.