Artist
Emma Altafulla
Photographer: Patrik Lienhart
About Emma
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Emma Altafulla was born in Barcelona in 1995. Born and raised until 2007 when she moved to California and later moved to Stockholm in 2013. Emma’s passion for art started the moment she held a pencil. Ever since then, Emma has worked towards her dream of becoming an artist. With no painting education, and a couple of art summer camp courses she took when she was 9, Emma taught herself to master oil painting through lots of practice. She is a strong believer that practice does not make perfect; practice just makes better.
Emma’s art is about observations and reactions. The goal is to make the observer react to their own interpretation of the work. The observations can range from intimate recognizable moments to outright audacious moments. The inspiration for her works and observations come from daily life, from observing human interactions to conversations with interesting people. Her work medium is mainly based in oils, but she also partakes in acrylics, watercolors, graphite, street art and lately tattooing too.
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Emma Anderson Altafulla
Street art
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Stockholm & Malmö
Old plain honest and illegal street art
Street art and graffiti are two completely different things. Scribble is ugly and it's probably mostly about young men marking territory with their tags - there's no artistic intention behind the scribble. Some tags may have fancy calligraphy but in the end they don't say much.
Making good illegal and uncommissioned street art is complicated, there is a lot that has to be right and ideally you should avoid getting caught by the police.
The most important thing with uncommissioned street art is to choose…
(To read more of the text in the book)
The book is written in Swedish.
Book is available for purchase at the gallery.
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I was at an exhibition with the French artist JR in London at the beginning of 2018. He often uses the technique of "flyposting", which involves printing the image on paper and then applying the print to a wall with...
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The book is written in Swedish.
Book is available for purchase at the gallery.
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Stockholm - Malmö
As much as I love Stockholm, I love taking the train down to Malmö, there is a certain sense of mental freedom with Malmö. Stockholmers are incredibly status-fixated and like to judge things that they don't...
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The book is written in Swedish.
Book is available for purchase at the gallery.
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Busungen i mig
Rude Boy is a fihur I tend to use quite a lot. I think the inspiration comes from Japan…
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The book is written in Swedish.
Book is available for purchase at the gallery.
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Ever since I was little I have loved horses. For a while I rode in a stable in Stiges, A small village where we...
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The book is written in Swedish.
Book is available for purchase at the gallery.
The pea soup jar is my homage to Banksy's homage to Andy Warhol's Champbell soup. I thought Soldatens ärtsoppa is the most iconic can in Sweden...
(To read more of the text in the book)
The book is written in Swedish.
Book is available for purchase at the gallery.
More art and texts are available in the artist's book.
Opening Hours
Mon –Fri 12 PM –5 PM / Sat - Sun 12 PM – 5 PM
or appointment
Norra Benickebrinken 2, Stockholm, Sweden.
P&P Photo Stockholm AB / Gallery Lienhart
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