Sr X - Street art Monty Python

Looking at the works of Spanish street artist, Sr. X often seen provocative messages masked as vintage advertisements.  Sr. X draws inspiration from pop culture, movies and urban legends and creates stencil artwork that are becoming more prevalent within Spains urban landscape. Sr. X creates his own identity with his amazing stencil/ spray paint work and collaging. There’s less of a concern about exactitude of the stencils (which, by the way, there is) and more concern about the art, with a welcomed cheeky tone on and off the streets. Off the streets, Sr. X indulges in a more painterly style that helps to drive the messages often brandished ironically. Either way, there’s an overall feel of a piece by Sr. X besides all of the aloof jesting.

What was your interest in art and what led you to create all those things?
I started drawing when I was a child, with DC, Marvel and Manga (like everybody, I think). Since then I liked art. I always liked walking in the street and see surprising things that make you smile, so I thought I also wanted to do something like that, and so I did.

Tell us about the graffiti scene from your town. Who are the more productive crews?
Here in Gijón there is a lot of artistic movement, but only few people who make street art. Sometimes I feel somewhat lonely about it, but there are more spare walls for myself, hehe.

How would you define your work and what inspires you?
I consider my work sometimes as a joke, and others as a cynic stuff. So it could be something like jokenic, or cynoke, I don´t know, ha ha ha. I like working from a starting idea, not only because of the aesthetics alone, and I think more in terms of street art than graffiti. I love stencils and street interventions, but I don´t like tags or bombing. The things that most inspire me are those I see during the day, and most of all those that come up to my mind in that extrange moment between dream and wakefulness in which you think/dream the most weird and funny stuff.
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What are your tastes in movies and books?
I like reading a lot, mostly classics and Beats: Steinbeck, Camus, Cela, Miller, Bukowsky, Burroughs, Kennedy Toole, Umberto Eco… I hate bestsellers. Regarding cinema, I hate Hollywood and superproductions. Some examples of the movies I like are Taxidermia (Gyorgy Pálfi), Freaks (Tod Browning) and anyone by Monty Python.


Favourite quote?

If you don´t know what colour to use, use black. If you don´t know what typography to use, use Helvetica”  (I don´t remember the author)