Rafa Mateo

Spain·224 artworks

Rafa Mateo is a Spanish artist who grew up in Malaga, although he developed his professional career in Barcelona. He currently resides in Granada. He is an industrial designer and training architect known in Spain for being one of the designers who shaped the change of era and culture that was lived in the nineties. After being recognized for his career as a communicator, he currently combines the activity of his design studio with new incursions into the art world. His artistic work is based on geometric abstraction close to pop art and questions the apparent opposition between tradition and digital media. In the creation of his works, he combines the computer with the canvas. Starting with a handmade cuddle on paper; he then scans, vectorizes, and colors on a computer, and finally executes it by hand on the canvas. The process is documented in social networks.