Fasim

At age 14 he starts painting graffiti, influenced by the initial boom of Hip Hop culture in Spain.

One year later, he meets Henry Chalfant in Barcelona through D.F.R. Crew and Kiku Mistu. That meeting with Henry Chalfant, author of the film Stylewars and the books Subway Art and Spray Can Art, was both enriching and the beginning of a deep friendship. Through Henry, Fasim gets to know and understand the wildstyle graffiti that was blossoming in the New York subway and promptly introduces this style in Spain. His pioneering in the wildstyle made him a well known artist and a source of inspiration for a new generation of graffiti artists. Leading a live that could be described as that of a modern-era Huckleberry Finn, he painted trains and walls almost on a daily basis. In several trips to Paris, he gets acquaintanced with Jonone and the BBCrew and joins their group "156 all stars".

Among many others, he has painted along with Sento, Seen, Pjay, Dare, Jay, Echo, Jonone, Sharp, Sen2, Macrew, T-kid, Cope, Ink, Loomit, Toast, Inka, Kane, Won abc, and Popay.

At just 21 years old, he was already well known in the international graffiti scene, and he had brought into Spain a brand-new, fully developed urban art form.

Driven by his endless curiosity, at that moment he started combining graffiti with other currents in painting. For years, he visits art museums and art galleries and learns about modern and contemporary vanguards, which were to influence his artwork. He also became a tireless reader about arts, literature and poetry.

Slowly and tenaciously he then decides to set himself apart from his previous influences and develop an artistic language of his own, such a style that he would define himself as "a painter of human catacombs". In 1996, four years after the end of the war, he travels to Sarajevo. This travel would forever change his vision of the world, as he gets deeply impressed by the genocide. For some days he shares a house with a number of war survivors. In a journey of no return from the horrors committed there, he rescues children’s drawings from ruined schools and makes a massive collage painting with them.

Ha pintado junto a Sento, Seen, Pjay, Dare, Jay, Echo, Jonone, Sharp, Sen2, Macrew, T-kid, Cope, Ink, Loomit, Toast, Inka, Kane, Won abc, Popay, entre otros muchos…

A los 21 años ya tiene reconocimiento internacional en la escena del Graffiti, aportando a España una nueva manifestación artística urbana plenamente desarrollada.

Momento en el cual, combina el Graffiti con otras inquietudes del mundo de la pintura y de su obsesión por nuevos caminos plásticos expresivos. Recorre durante años museos de arte y camina por las galerías de Barcelona solo, aprende directamente de los pintores las vanguardias modernas y contemporáneas, siendo influenciado por casi todas ellas. Lee muchos libros de arte, literatura y poesía, sin recurrir a escuelas ni a instituciones, nutriéndose, bebiendo de la fuente.
Lentamente y con mucha tenacidad, abandona todas las corrientes artísticas que le habían enriquecido y desarrolla un lenguaje plástico propio, un estilo definido por el mismo; como un “pintor de las catacumbas humanas”.

Fasim pinta muy comprometido en la aldea global, pinta sus virtudes y sus desastres. Donde todo se funde en una expresión suprema cercana al llanto, a la locura, a la alegría de vivir y a la risa, pese a todo.

Antiguo y contemporáneo a su vez, no se encasilla a este brutal pintor de manera formal, no hay cajón que lo encierre, el pinta desde hace años desde su alma y no desde el compromiso comercial o de estrategias vacuas de contenido suave. Tiene el talento de gritar en silencio a grandes alaridos.

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