Judas Arrieta Spanish, b. 1971

Judas Arrieta is a well-known Spanish contemporary artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculptures, wallpaints, video art and installations.

 

Comic and otaku fanatic Judas Arrieta sources himself directly

from the manga and contemporary painting iconography, from which he develops a complex personal imagery characterized by its great visual power, the use of sampling and a profuse intertextuality that proposes an eternal return to our childhood.

 

He combines his influences and uses his unique art language to produce many kinds of different art works. Arrieta's mission is producing art pieces directly related with new ways of understanding art. With his newest projects he tries approaching the audience in a playful and joyful way, using blow up sculptures, wall paintings and toy art pieces. For Arrieta, art must create nice experiences in people.

 

His art works are collected by museums, enterprises and banks, like Guggenheim Bilbao museum, Asia House of Barcelona, the Spanish embassy in Japan, CajaMadrid and others. They are also widely shown around the world, in countries such as Spain, USA, Finland, Japan, Korea and China.