Jorge Artajo


Jorge Artajo Muruzabal is a Spanish visual artist, draftsman, writer, performer and social activist.

Biography

Muruzabal was born in Sádaba,. Graduate in Media Studies and Communications by the Complutense University in Madrid. He was arrested several times in 1970 and 1972 during Franco's dictatorship when demonstrating in several campaigns against political repression and for Amnesty and Freedom, and was confined from several months at the Carabanchel Prison in Madrid. As a painter and draftsman he has a great diversity of themes and stiles: From naive and colourful paintings to very dark drawings.

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