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Glass Graffiti

Glass letters messages glued on the street

While developping the huge Concrete Suite project, I started to have a lot of spare letters around the studio. One day I just felt the urge as Donald Trump was becoming the republican nominate for president to go down the street, around the block, to glue and little fascist mustach on a huge graffiti of Trump as a japanese cartoon big shit.

Since I started doign to BLACK square I had a lot of Bs-Ls-As-Cs and Ks left. So I started with the idea of a mustache saying BLACK.


So here I went at night with my superglue and my headphones to sing and glue my mustache...

A tip: "Don´t listen to music while doing a graffiti" cause next thing I know there is a police officer tapping my shoulder after calling me several times :))

As I explained to him it was an artwork on top of that exisiting one, comissioned by the shop owners behind, he wasn´t convinced (I think he was confused) and told me to remove it and go home.


So I did, but only to come back down without headphones and a better shave for my mustache. Instead of BLACK now the mustache would be done out of KKKs..... To honor Trump´s father, who was part of them.


The police patrol thinking their job was done did not come back. And so I managed to glue a fascist mustache onto his face.


The experience proved so exhilarating that it became a regular practice every time I had the urge to say something.


And looks like that I had several things to say :))

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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