Name: Madrid es... Chulas
SKU: 125393
Price: 355.00 EUR
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Description

“Madrid, la noche, el jaleillo y las cosas de tomar y comer, son los temas de esta nueva exposición de un servidor de ustedes. Una relación de palabras que son parte del campo semántico de la capital del Reino. Cada cual tendrá las suyas pero aquí encontraréis callos en su polisemia, churros con chulos, chulas chewing gum y las imprescindibles cañas que anteceden a la inevitable resaca del domingo en el monumento de Alfonso XIII y sus también inevitables tambores. Siempre por la noche y siempre con fuegos de artificio. Así somos.”

Roberto Maján

Roberto Maján (Soria, Spain, 1968)

Roberto Maján is a self-taught artist. He moved to Madrid when he was eighteen and soon began working as an illustrator for various specialised periodicals and publishers, including Expansión, Actualidad Económica, Vogue, El Sol, El País, Health and Beauty, Anaya, Santillana and Edelvives.

In 2006 he founded Artichoque, a publishing house that released several books illustrated by his own pen, such as Kamasutra (Daniel Gil Editorial Design Award finalist in 2006) and Petronia y la reina bigotuda (shortlisted for the 2007 Visual Prize for Best Children’s Book). That year he received the Fundación Progreso y Cultura Prize for his illustrated book El Diablo y yo, which also won an honourable mention at the Lazarillo Awards.

Roberto Maján artworks in La Fiambrera Art gallery

In his personal artistic production, he parades his consummate skill with brushes and watercolours, depicting mostly human figures with a subtle and adept use of colour and creating textures and glazes to produce an oeuvre of stunning beauty and delicacy. His favourite themes expose and explore human passions, particularly love, sex and food.