Darth Vader Graffiti, 2023

Alberto Blanchart  

Albert Blanchart (Madrid Spain, 1971) is a photographer, comic book artist, strip cartoonist and painter. He studied in la Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos (Llotja) de Barcelona. (1990-1995) and learned from Xavier Canals teacher in Image Semiotics and from Toni Miró, teacher in Pictures and Illustration Techniques

Initially he was influenced by relevant cartoonists like Mike Mignola, Bill Sienkiewicz or Frank Miller, and as long as he was making progress in his in depth studies both in aesthetics and conceptual knowledge, he was impressed by the work of Vicente Segrelles.

Of his work as a painter and cartoonist, Blanchart took his touch of fantastic surrealism full of unusual findings. Slowly but consistently he left his initial influences applying his personal point of view inspired in the so called, black cinema as in Gilda, with surprising angles and contrasts which give name to the series.

Giving a twist to his career turns his interest in new art forms, scrawled on the walls, influenced by Obey, Suso 33 Blu, using them only as a reference, seeking a new life drawing on the walls of the large cities, picking through demos what to consider dirt, there is a new concept embryo.