Bogotá, Colombia
( 57) 3108846658
sr.castropulido@gmail.com
www.cargocollective.com/castropulido
I was born on February 19, 1987 in Nemocón, Cundinamarca. Since I was 14 years old I have written graffiti and executed art projects in the public space under the pseudonyms Cazdos and Word in the streets of Bogotá and other cities around the world. I belong to the legendary Bogota graffiti group MDC (Mientras Duermen Crew) and Vertigo Graffiti
I am a Master in fine arts from the Universidad de Los Andes with an emphasis in Plastic Arts. I am currently studying the fourth and final thesis seminar in the Master in History of Art, Architecture and the City at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
I have specialized in weaving the urban history area with the plastic arts. I focus my work in develop the tensions of city throught the performance and street walk like an aesthetic form of knowledge, in this way graffiti action is for me an a prosthesis that give me tools to explore the public space in multiple sence. And the other hand, i am interested in the Landscape like theme and motive in a lot of studio works, where I work in painting, fine art drawing, and in-situ instalations.
In the last 15 years my work has been exhibited at local and international Graffiti and Street Art festivals, among which are: Baladk Festival (Amman, JO), Big Walls Big Dreams (Miami, US), The Biennial of Muralism and Art Public (Cali), Getsemaní Mural City (Cartagena), Píctopia Festival (Medellín), Meeting Of Styles (Lima, PE), Mural City (Bogotá, COL), Mural City (Cartagena, COL), Hiphop Al Parque (Bogotá, COL ), Invisible City at the Bogotá Museum (Bogotá, COL), First and Second Assault Offset (Bogotá, COL), Aerosoul (Bogotá, COL), Urban Festival (Bogotá, COL), Canalla Memory at the Bogotá Museum (Bogotá, COL), Atacarte Festival (Cucuta, COL), Estereo Picnic (Bogotá, COL).
My works and mural pieces can be seen in Bogotá, Cartagena, Santiago de Cali, Medellín, Cúcuta, Villavicencio, Cajícá and Florencia; and in cities of the world like Istanbul (Turkey), Ankara (Turkey), Lisbon (Portugal), Amman (Jordan), Ottawa (Canada), Antwerp (Belgium), Miami (United States), Lima (Peru), Buenos Aires ( Argentina), Madrid (Spain), Lyon, Toulouse, Paris (France), and Berlin (Germany). [-
I have also worked as a researcher and manager of curatorial projects around the tensions between art and city.
I have been editor and founder of projects such as the forum Escritores Urbanos and the magazine lObjetivo Fanzine. In 2013 I participated in the foundation of the La Quincena space: a place dedicated to the formulation, promotion and exhibition of art projects.