With Faith I.T. [Insane Totally} #10 Collage

Cless, Valladolid (1979) "Graffiti doesn't make your life worse. It just makes your neighborhood look better". Cless too. III. When you look at his art you feel that stupid thing of "I could do this myself". He achieves to make it look like something easy though is not. Superposition and fusion of the images help to obtain his very personal quest. Always looking, chasing and finding, he has entered a personal world in occasions self-referencing and another universal, using sometime his own languages codes and some others appropriated or borrowed. 27. Cless enters the world of art the way is should be, without wanting it, as a consequence of personal work that forces to follow always forward: combining the forbidden and public world of the New Yorkers Wild Style on abandoned walls with the private world of his own obsession. Todo Vale. The visual saturation & wastage that he uses as the raw material is a skilled sewing exercise embroidered without a template." Text by: Rubén B. Some people needs to be introduced from the beginning, although they could have many. To talk about Cless' story we are going to choose one of those possible beginnings. It could be the one that starts like ''I'm a graffiti writer and one day I began with the collages" or the other one that says "I'm a graffiti writer and one day I discovered Eduardo Recife's Works". But my favourite one is this: "When I was a little boy I told my mum that I wanted to be one Picasso, I swear, I was under the big table of the dining room drawing with my pen in some pieces of Wood". This one is the one that talks the best about Cless and after all about his work. He started with the graffiti, with the New York Wild Style from the mid seventies. But everything evolves and that's why during the works from other artists arrived to their hands, his personal art underwent a metamorphosis: from some classical artists like Warhol, Lichtenstein or antiartistic movements like the dadaism, to Misprintedtype, {ths}, NCC, etc. Now, Cless has his own way, a personal style where the phrase "anything goes" is elevated to the eleventh power. Any image that go through his scissors get into a new story made in Cless; a spectator can look his work and give it a meaning, but it wouldn't be the real one. Everything in his collages has a place, as if it has just been put and pasted a minute ago, except for a feeling of an impossible perfection and detail.