Alberto Porta (Zush)

Alberto Porta was born in 1946 in Barcelona, Catalonia. He is a self-taught painter and designer. In 1975, he received a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and studied holography there. Since 1986 Alberto Porta exhibits in New York and Madrid. Alberto Porta called two different identities to life. Zush, a “digital psycho-manual artist” and Evru a “scientific and mystical artist. Zush (1968 to 2001) Under the pseudonym Zush Alberto Porta invented a parallel state, the Evrugo Mental State with its own currency (Tucares), passport, national anthem, flag and alphabet (Asura). Evru (2001 to today) Since 2001, Alberto Porta under the name of Evru, develops a very diversified work. It sits between a very personal surrealist iconography and a form of cyborg aesthetic. Besides traditional works on paper, canvas and wood, he also produces large formats of digital photos and innovative digital works in the field of computer aided design (CAD). Evru recently developed a computer program for digital painting called Tecura.