"Batalla"
100x70cm Acrylic on canvas 2014
This is one of the most important pieces for me, It became an instant icon when I published in social networks in 2014. It was the first creation through painting and technology to put the protests of Venezuela in art. It opened me doors to high level militancy with Anonymous and recognition and admiration from a whole generation in Venezuela. This piece is historic for Venezuela. It represents the protests of 2014. It is full of symbolic and meanings. The BBC published it in an article describing it as "one of the most representatives pieces of 2014".
Another very mentionable important thing about this piece is the fact it was my first big time piece existing to a massive scale thanks to the new technologies of social networks. The viral reach record set by of this piece in social media is hard to measure but very meaningful, specifically for Venezuela, this piece is known by millions of people and it's considered by many as a symbol for the country's identity and history.
One of the 3 only existing copies of Batalla from 2014 is at the Venezuela food restaurant and political nerve center of the diaspora of Miami in Doral "El Arepazo 2" (Florida). This piece was stolen from an office in 2018.
Batalla won the 2nd place price from the Accademia Alfonso Grassi, Salerno. Italy. 2014
Thor Halvorssen signing the reverse of "Batalla" in Miami 2014. That same day I gave in the sister piece "lucha Anonima" for the Human Rights Foundation libertarian art collection
Mostrandole una copia de "Batalla" a la ex fiscal general de la republica chavista Luisa Ortega Diaz en Ginebra 2017. Para que la historia a la cual ella participo no se olvide.
With the political refugee and student leader of 2014's protests Marco Coello and Christopher Bello Ruiz, an ethical hacktivist and a human rights activist also persecuted by the regime wiht "Batalla" in Miami 2015.
