Zesar Bahamonte

ZESAR BAHAMONTE, MURALIST EXPLORING THE TIES BETWEEN THE PERSONAL AND THE COLLECTIVE

CHÁCHARA, in collaboration with Graficatessen and LAB Sevilla.

Zesar Bahamonte is a visual and urban artist born in Seville in 1986. He began his creative journey through graffiti and comics. Today, his artistic practice moves between muralism, studio painting, drawing, and installation, always engaging with space and time concepts.

His work explores the ties between the personal and the collective, between memory and reflection on the present. Bahamonte’s murals highlight the significance of affection, friendship, and love, featuring striking and enigmatic characters who play music, drink wine, wander through the streets, or ride bicycles.

He is recognised for his loose brushstroke, his expressive use of colour, contrasts, and symmetries, as well as a poetic style that draws on popular imagery, and social critique.

Bahamonte has a diverse and extensive career. He has created murals and painted façades across Europe and Latin America, leaving his mark in cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Lisbon, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Paris.

Among his recent projects are murals for Rexenera Fest in Galicia, Cirque du Soleil in Madrid, and the European Commission in Belgium, as well as the Writer's Block Festival in the Netherlands. In 2024, he created the intervention on the façade of Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and illustrated one of the covers for the collective project of illustration ‘The Sevillaner.’

He also collaborates frequently with galleries and art spaces and is a member of ÁHÊ Taller collective.