The graffiti artist RESAKS will participate in ‘1 Kilometer of Art’

This year, urban artist RESAKS will be the one to add a new intervention to ‘1 Kilometer of Art’, an open-air museum that already has ten consolidated works in Ventosa thanks to the initiative of the local council and the Caja Rioja Foundation. His proposal, ‘Cromatismo del Camino’, will fuse urban art and tradition in an eight-square-metre stained glass window that will be installed in a vineyard next to the Variante del Camino.

The RESAKS project, selected among the 14 proposals submitted to the competition, incorporates the discipline of graffiti into ‘1 Kilometer of Art’ and, with it, the young public that follows this artist on social networks, where he totals more than two million of followers.

The author himself will present his proposal to the residents of Ventosa this afternoon. He will work closely with them and with pilgrims passing through the town this summer on the final design. To do this, he will design three stained glass windows that, in addition to light, will reflect the identity of the people of Ventosa, and which will be put to a popular vote to decide which work will finally be carried out. He will also give two workshops (in July and August) on introduction to graffiti and its creation.

The announcement of this new artist joining ‘1 Kilometre of Art’ was made this Friday by the mayor of Ventosa, Ricardo Velasco; the manager of Fundación Caja Rioja, Carlos Fuentes, and the artist’s representative, Belén Canoura. According to the latter, the RESAKS window “will act as a visual and emotional milestone in the pilgrims’ journey, integrating the contemporary with the classical and the emerging art of this century with the traditional art of the Camino de Santiago.”

It will be a changing work, depending on the light that is projected on it, and the first stained glass window that RESAKS designs for an outdoor space. In constant search and experimentation, this young artist (in his late thirties) adapts and combines his urban painting with traditional disciplines, in this case stained glass, in an effort to avoid any comfort zone. Next autumn, his ‘Cromatismo del Camino’ will look very close to the works José Carlos Balanza and Beatriz Carbonell.