Glub

GLUB (Madrid, 1969).
Untitled, 2023.
Mixed media on canvas.
Signed and dated on the back.
Measurements: 50 x 100 cm.
Born in Madrid in 1969, and graduated in Fine Arts specializing in painting in 1998. He begins to paint in the streets of the city in 1986. For a few years he will only make signatures within the Madrid graffiti movement, the so-called flecheros. Glub's signature is already part of the history of graffiti, along with the popular Muelle, as one of its pioneers. He has continued the style of native signatures of Madrid to the present day. A few years ago he moved definitively to Valencia, very close to Alicante, the city he used to frequent and "bomb" with his graffiti in his youth.
On the other hand, in 1989 Glub burst onto the Spanish hip hop scene producing more elaborate graffiti, within the aesthetics of New York graffiti, at the time when this movement was just beginning in Spain. He is therefore considered one of its precursors, part of what in hip hop is called oldschool or old school. He has also continued to create graffiti within this movement up to the present day, covering a wide range of styles.
In 1992 Glub exhibited his paintings for the first time in a Madrid gallery, as part of a group exhibition of the most emblematic graffiti artists of the time. In parallel to the realization of graffiti he has also been painting pictures. In 2009 he published online "Relatos de un escritor de graffiti", his own texts with collaborations of recognized graffiti artists such as: Trase, El niño de las pinturas, Erik, Suso 033, Besdo, Dolar One, Remebe, Grito, Vato, Vota Dier, Einsamkeit, Tarantini, Ape, Suis, Wendy, Loco13, Jeosm, Bboe and the illustrator Pepe Valera. Keeping the altruistic philosophy about his art through graffiti, this book is free and can be downloaded on the Internet. A year and a half before, he self-published "Memorias en graffiti", a book in Spanish and English, with his personal history in relation to graffiti and the birth of the movement in Madrid in the 80s. It narrates the evolution of his style in first person, along with photos of his works and others.