Manuel Donada

website: www.mdonada.com

Axorthec I – the Manuel Donada artshow @ Fabrica Fluxus

Manuel Donada is a graphic designer and artist from Madrid, Spain. After being submerged in piles of paper, pens, cartoons and drawings in 1996 he builds a bigger spaceship and cross the sky of graphic design, a trip that has taken him to live a bunch of amazing adventures, reaching hundreds of different planets and stars and creating several constellations of joy. Coming from the DIY independent scene (under the name of LeCadavre – no longer used-) has made him understand design in special way and it has made him develop a unique style inside the industry. A world that has made him navigate in a lot of different levels working for music labels, editorials, bands, commercials, TV channels, magazines…even for the Spanish Embassy in Ethiopia and appearing in books as a promising graphic designer along with an example of his work. This self-taught artist has been named by the El Pais newspaper one of the most important Spanish young artist in 1999 and has never stopped walking up the ladder ever since, searching new techniques and investigating new ways of twisting the real world and turn it into a new visual artifact. Nowadays, mDonada, keeps traveling, experimenting and defeating shapes, colors and ideas brought together to your eyes to explode like firecrackers.

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Dopo aver passato anni sommerso da montagne di fogli, penne, disegni e cartoni animati, Manuel Donada, illustratore e graphic designer madrileno, si costruisce nel 1996 un’astronave con la quale attraversa il cielo dell’illustrazione grafica. Durante il viaggio vive un sacco di avventure sorprendenti, raggiunge centinaia di pianeti e costellazioni lasciando dietro di sé infinite galassie di gioia. Proviene dalla scena indipendente (sotto il nome di Le Cadavre, non più usato) e questo lo predispone ad una particolare comprensione del design, che lo porterà a sviluppare più tardi uno stile personalissimo all’interno dell’industria. Naviga su più livelli in questo mondo, passando per le etichette discografiche, le case editoriali (Alfaguara Books), le band musicali, i magazines e la TV (lavorando per Cartoon Network) e pure per l’Ambasciata Spagnola in Etiopia, comparendo in diversi libri come un promettente grafico e designer. Il quotidiano El Pais lo nomina come uno degli artisti più importanti del 1999 e da allora, “MDonada” continua imperterrito a scalare la vetta del successo, alla continua ricerca di nuove tecniche e nuovi modi per distorcere il mondo in un nuovo artefatto visivo. Attualmente, MDonada continua a viaggiare, sperimentare e lottare contro forme colori e idee per farli esplodere davanti ai vostri occhi come fuochi d’artificio.

ARTWORKS
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“M&M is for Magic Mushroom” 37,5 x 55cm acrylic and markers on canvas	“School Trip 1979″ 47,5 x 61,5cm acrylic and markers on canvas	Los tres amigos” 65 x 87,5cm acrylic and markers on canvas
“Hasta el final” 79,5 x 100cm acrylic and markers on canvas (SOLD)	“Smokog” 21,5 x 21,5cm ink on transparent paper	“Flauto” 21,5 x 21,5cm ink on transparent paper
“Calypso cat” 21,5 x 21,5cm ink on transparent paper	“Hatem” 21,5 x 21,5cm ink on transparent paper	“Pastapotage” 23 x 23cm acrylic and markers on card
“Coge la pelotita,……..” 28,5 x 40cm acrylic and markers on paper (SOLD)	“La caja de las cosquillas” 100x104cm acrylic and markers on canvas	untitled 40,5 x 97cm acrylic and markers on canvas (SOLD)