Sebas Velasco: The morning will change everything
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About
"The morning will change everything" is the first major monograph by the spanish artist Sebas Velasco.
This beautiful book brings together 10 years of work rooted in travel, observation, painting, and photography across former Yugoslavia.
Presented in 4 languages, the book features large-scale reproductions and enlarged details that foreground the energy, texture, and brushwork of the paintings.
With a critical essay by Saša Bogojev and an artist essay by Velasco, the publication reflects on how places carry memory and how art can forge cultural connection across language and borders.
Artist essay: Sebas Velasco
Critical Essay Saša Bogojev
35 x 25cm
252 pages
Hardcover canvas bound
Edition of 1000 copies
About the artist
Sebas Velasco (b.1988) is a Spanish artist exploring identity through expressive oil paintings of urban landscapes, and portraiture. Over the last few years, Sebas Velasco has aligned himself with the great documentarians of the transitional countries of Eastern Europe.
With frequent visits to Poland and the countries of former Yugoslavia; Velasco observes the shifting relationship between the urban environment and economical/political structures, often delving deep into their histories and culture to better understand their identity. Concrete utopias and peripheral spaces on the skirts of cities have come to identify Velasco’s work, always on the fringe but for him, teaming with life. Concrete towers, abandoned vehicles, and neon signs are collaged from photography taken on his extensive trips to the region to create new photographic realities. With a meticulous focus on light and its properties, Velasco’s art transcends the boundaries of conventional aesthetics toward a more atmospheric and emotional reflection of time. Whether it’s cars no longer in production, people wearing sportswear from another era, or plants breaking through cracked concrete, even in the most dystopian scenes, a quiet but persistent sense of hope prevails. Emerging from the Spanish graffiti scene of the early 2000s, Sebas Velasco’s artistic journey began in Bilbao with his studies in Fine Art.
Continuing the great tradition of Basque art collectives in Spain, Velasco is also a member of the Formato Norte group, a collective of Basque artists celebrating the proud legacy of creativity and collaboration in the North of Spain.
