Another jewel of the book series "Thirty-six chamber" is The TvBoy, one of the most recognizable signatures of the European streetness. After training in Milan,
he settled in Barcelona, Spain. The city barrios are literally invaded by his chewy puppets, unmistakable for the heads encloed into monitors. Tv or Pc addicted,
in search for a way out. The TvBoy’s advice is to switch off the screen and become the protagonist. He has perfectly succeeded the experiment gaining
space through spraypaint tracks and urban incursions. Multi-colored characters that conquer with their curvy, reassuring forms. It is the mix of cartoon, tv,
comics to inspire his book "Street pop", made for "Thirty-six chambers". An ironic revise, stricly "customized", of Warhol’s approach.
Or rather: how to survive the invasion of mediatic ultra-bodies. The TvBoy’s recipe is easy: to bend to irony the fetishes of the showbisness society.
Advertising messages and icons personally revised and cleared of their massifying power. So, from obscure persuasors they become unoffensive toys.
A democratic aesthetics, becaus re-shaped on the user’s needs. The empy box refills with authentic messages for all the insiders who choose to break the rules and innovate.
An urban factory gathered by participation, spontaneous and self-ruled, of those cultural nomads never overstuffed of adventure.
With them, The TvBoy marked the style of the city: a seaport hospitable with the talents passying by. Who return, leaving a sign of their passage.

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