Kenor is a Barcelona artist who uses simple shapes and strong colors to create art in many different fields, such as canvas, walls, installations and even clothes.
Started painting in 1990, son of a sevillan painter and photographer, emerged into street art in the late eighties and decided to share his art, first with a barrio (neighborhood) L’Hospitalet in Barcelona and that the rest of the city, and finally – with the rest of the world. At first, Kenor was focused on more traditional urban art. Thanks to his fascination with typography and logos, he experimented with letters without a prototype. Later on, with a progression of Barcelona Street Art scene, his style and artistic expression also went through some changes. As Kenor says, he intended to “decorate the dead cities” – he used to search for abandoned, damaged and worn parts of the town that desperately needed reanimation and resuscitation. He became a sort of spokesperson against the greyification of Barcelona, and against the new laws which have come to repress so much of the cities previously active street-life.
In spite of that, he continues to produce, to revivify the city, his work is increasing to a now monumental size, covering walls all over the world.
Kenor tries to keep his work in constant evolution, to “re-create spaces of freedom”, submitting the viewer to “endless options”. Whatever medium he works within then, he wants the recipient of the image to be a “free player”, a player “able to choose and imagine a new dimension that allows it to grow”, one unrestricted by the image, captured by infinite possibilities of the line.” His films such as “Floating Points”, “Dentro de mi”, and in particular “Cualquier lugar, un dia cualquiera”, more readily display the connection between dance and inscription, the choreography of the image. Recently, at the Montana Gallery in Barcelona, he presented a project that “brings music to a visual journey, transporting melody using geometry, dimensions and abstraction.”
His artistic career has led him to cities like New York, London, Paris, Lisbon and Berlin.
Kenor lives in Barcelona.
Beats” 150 x 150 Barcelona 2016
Finale bass” 130 x 97 A mas B studio Barcelona 2016
States of Mind” 195 x 130 Barcelona 2016
Chicago House” 100 x 100 Vertical gallery Chicago 2015
Outside world” 195 x 195 Galerie Celal Paris 2015
”Irritant” 130 x 195 cm Sevilla 2015
Receptor” 100 x 100 Romero studio_ Sevilla 2015
”GENESIS II” 100 x 100_London 2015
”Overdose” 195 x 130 London 2015
”Chain reaction” 130 x 97 Tribute to techno Dub sound from Basic Channel_ Sevilla 2014
”Incubation” 120 x 120 Sevilla 2014
”Polyrythmic Beats” 195cm_Paris 2014
“Le Lotus Bleu” 195 x 110 Galerie Celal Paris 2014
Astralasia” 400 x 200 For the exhibition PRISM_Paris 2013
Tranceforms 195 x 130 acrylic on cavas Barcelona 2013
New Kenor collection 2013 spray on cavas biosphere Cosmic
Force Magnetic Droid 130 x 92 Oslo Norway
Presentation of these new paintings in le mur de l´art second
edition Paris 07 Novembro 2012
Descontruccion/Energia 195 x 130 Barcelona 2012
Dentro/Emociones 2011 300 x 200 cm técnica spray
Gotiklines 195 x 130 spray canvas Barcelona April 2011
Cuerpo/movimiento & los dos canvas Barcelona 2010 130 x 110
Miradas series Barcelona 2010
Parallels dreams canvas is the construction of a face
with the dimension 133 x 11o Barcelona 2010
Floating points series Barcelona 2010
New arquitek series II Barcelona 2009
WALLS
La Cité La Banane_ Proyect with Art Azoï _Paris 2013
Collaboration with Elise Herszkowicz ART AZOÏ project_photo # Tony Brown_Belleville_Paris_April 2013
Graffitiart magazine & Graffuturism project presents KENOR_NELIO_PEZ_Gilbert1 collaboration_in Stalingrat PARIS April 2013
Art Basel week, Wynwood district walls, Painting walls in Wynwood district (Miami), during ART BASEL week, since 6th December 2012.
ARD*POP*UP FESTIVAL 2012_Oslo_Norway
FAHR Festibal StrettArt_Delta de L’Ebre_Catalunya_Spain May 2012
Collaboration with H101_CityBilder Festival_Dresden Germany_October 2011
This project is conducted in the city of Lodz_Polonia September 2011
Vicious Delicious_Urban Forms Festibal_Lodz Poland 2011
Festiwal Murali_Outer Spaces_16_21 May2011_Poznan Poland
El tiempo de las ximeneas_Barcelona 2010
Gaviota_poble9 2010_
In this project merging four artists in search of color, the result is a big face_collaboration with Zosen h101 Gola_Reggio Emilia_Italy 2010
REGGIO EMILIA_ITALY_2010
New KENOR collection 2013_Spray on canvas_Biosphere_Cosmic Force_Magnetic Droid_130 x 92_Oslo Norway
EVENTS
Street Art & Graffiti auction in Paris_ My artwork is selected to the Street Art & Graffiti auction organized by Art Curial, together with the biggest street artists from around the world (Obey, Cope2, Seen, Futura, …)
SWAB BARCELONA _ INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART 2012
This new project takes me to the United States. I am going to paint a few murals in Art Basel, MIAMI on December 6th-9th. I am also going to take part in GRAFFUTURISM in SOZE GALLERY, Los Angeles on December 12th.”
P R I S M _ TANC PEZ PRO176 KENOR L’ATLAS FABIEN HULIN CHANOIR… Une exposition éphémère dans un lieu de production Digital Packaging_Commissariat : Fabien Hulin VERNISSAGE LE 21 JUIN 2013 de 18h à minuit…Paris
Participate in ARD*POP-UP festival 2012_Oslo_Norway & LE M.U.R de l’Art second edition paris 2012
Del Mural’Art exhibition_Espai Merce Sala_In side of Metro station Diagonal_Barcelona_28 March 2012 19:00 hours
Galerie Celal_Present ”Barcelona Finest” kenor_zosen_gola_h101_16 April 2011
Kenor Solo Exhibition “Ritmo” at Artifex Gallery
Here is a set of pictures from Kenor’s recent solo exhibition “Ritmo” that opening this weekend at Artifex Gallery in Belgium. The new body of work references the construction and deconstruction of form through sound and is inspired by the group Autechre. Kenor’s work explodes and contracts, color is dark and light. This is a must see exhibit if you are in Belgium as Kenor’s work is best scene in person to get the impact of the precision involved.
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