El Bocho
El Bocho works as a typographer and as an illustrator in his
daily life. However, during the night he changes the medium and uses the city
as a playground. He keeps his real name as a secret, he's doing it because
anonymity is an essential for the street artist and he loves the kick of
creating illegal art, through this he makes himself often punishable.
Besides
his exhibition in the gallery, he applies his work on the street. His works
were founded in the streets since 1997-already before he starts his illustration
and the study of typography. He's among one of the artists who stamps the streets
of Berlin visibly with his special and original works, which made him popular
not only within Germany but world wide.
What's important for him is the work
done beyond the art scene, because this gets almost in-touch with everybody
than art in galleries, so he collected the reactions of the viewers and applied
it into his works. That's how it appears a constant flow of communication within
the public. To get contact or in touch with the people he elects items for his
work which are easy to present, on his humorous poster series he comments down
the way of life in the city. In his portrait series, in which you can find the
Berlin gallery named Raab as well as on the streets of Berlin he also dives
into the intellectual world of the citizens. For the creation that he uses hand
made posters which are four meters long. He uses his own skills and technique to
placard the walls because his special poster paper connects in a slowly procedure
with the subsoil by means of the sun and wind.
Besides the established
streetart techniques like installations, templates or cut, El Bocho also uses
wall tiles which he already installed in many European metropolises.
