Dresu is an artist specialized in plastic arts, murals, and graphic design. For him, painting is a way to express himself, as if he had a megaphone through which to shout.
We had the pleasure of interviewing Dresu, a Spanish artist based in Madrid. His works are currently on view at the Spanish gallery Juca Claret. Dresu, born Pedro Muñoz in Ciudad Real in 1992, is a plastic artist, muralist, and graphic designer. His early works in the art world include graffiti, street art, and fast-painting contests. Today, he has earned more than 100 awards and has held solo exhibitions since 2012. Dresu recalls a childhood surrounded by pencils, modeling clay, paint, plaster, and anything he could take from his father to create something new. For him, art has always been a game, and he hopes this feeling will never change. His style, technically expressionist, combines both figurative and abstract elements. Painting, for him, is like a megaphone through which he can 'shout' at will.
Kooness: Can you share a little about your experience and what inspired your path in art?
Dresu: From a very young age I have always been a child with all things handmade. I remember spending the idle hours in a small tool room my father had at home, and with scraps of plaster, wood, metals... I was always inventing anything in order to represent a visual aesthetic.
K: Who has been your greatest inspiration, if you have any?
D: For me, painting and the world of art is a profession like any other, but a profession that requires a lot of hard work, discipline, perseverance and a cool head. My greatest inspiration is my family, a hard-working family that has always instilled in me the work and effort to achieve any goal.
K: As an artist you use different media, how do you decide which one to use for each particular work?
D: Each work is a world and each theme is a path to explore. From that tool room, I came to the conclusion that each material offers us a different reading, and today I corroborate this. I work with different techniques and above all I do a lot of mixed painting to give and offer the work a diversity of languages.
K: Can you describe your creative process?
D: My creative process is very simple, I need to travel as a pretext and visualize many hours what nature offers us to transfer it to the canvas and pass it through my personal filter. I study the landscape based on the four elements of nature (air, earth, fire and water). With these four elements, I interpret the atmosphere I need, emphasizing it. My main objective is not to show the landscape we see, but the sensations it produces in us... a cold day, the wind on harvest days, the heat of summer, the movement of water...
K: Are there specific themes or messages that you intend to convey through your artwork?
D: Yes, I am very interested in the atmosphere and physical and sentimental sensations that the landscape gives us.
K: Can you tell us about one of your recent projects?
D: Quinta Esencia is the project that I am working on and perfecting these last few years with everything in my head that I have just mentioned.
K: Is there any goal you have on the horizon for your future career and projects?
D: I am a painter who has short term goals, upcoming fairs, exhibitions... I work day by day and when I get one, I continue with the next one... I am researching and working on a new work that has not yet come to light, but that I would love to show soon. A work that is still based on the landscape, but that has a greater abstract charge and that decomposes the landscape itself.