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“Skhema” series 

These ancestral forms and colors have a hypnotic effect on the artist, the spaces full of signs and codes of the first communities embodied in the walls generate a moment of inspiration.

“Quixote” by Manomatic

April 2018 Athens

Considering that it is a visual interpretation of a famous scene from the original book where the titular character sees windmills as giants and is thus prompted to do battle against them, even though they are an imaginary enemy. The book was penned during the Eighty Years War where the Habsburg Netherlands fought for their independence against Spaniards, and because of that, literary experts theorise that this part of the book can be allegorically understood as a call to evaluate cause and basis for actions on both an individual level, and on a more global scale – the ulterior motives behind a nation’s foreign policy.

(via Streetart News [wall 1250] - Pichi & Avo, Sake Ieneka, Man o Matic)

Street art portraits by Manomatic

 His bio previously posted on a recent article, the spotlight here is dedicated to Manomatic focus on portraits that often carry a message. As he says in a recent and precise interview:

“I view my job as a graffiti artist from an artistic perspective and a social perspective too”