Nicolas Villamizar a revolutionary artist

By Mariana Zapata, Anaïs España and Felipe Baquero

Today Wednesday 12 October we interviewed Nicolas Villamizar, he is a former student of Lycée Louis Pasteur (Bogota). We asked him about many subjects like his inspiration, his personal life and his past and about the topics he likes to paint and how difficult it was for him to become an artist. He is a very interesting person, his life is really amazing. . First he studied another career (communication) but then he felt that art was more appealing to him so he became an artist. Nicolas started painting graffiti when he was twenty four years old and his pieces of art are based on mistakes. Villamizar said:” ART IS A MISTAKE”. He started painting on walls ten years ago because he thought that the space where he painted was quite small, he wanted more space to express himself. Nicolas gets inspired by his feelings, the weather or anything about his daily life. Finally he figured out his aim was to share his feelings with the general public

Esprit libre et révolutionnaire

L’art, pour Nicolas Villamizar, est apparu de manière spontanée dès son plus jeune âge et l’a envoûté dans un parcours de redécouverte personnelle. Ayant débuté sa carrière en dessinant sur de la toile, il a ressenti le besoin de renforcer sa visibilité en travaillant sur des surfaces plus étendues et ainsi être reconnu par un plus grand public ; c’est pourquoi il s’exprime à travers des graffiti.

Son évolution quotidienne et ses sentiments spontanés ont pour but d’émouvoir son entourage et de transmettre un message. Il se considère révolutionnaire en défendant des causes propres à son pays, la Colombie. Il intègre ses échecs à ses œuvres pour créer de façon constante quelque chose de singulier.

Concernant la législation sur les graffiti, il accepte le compromis suivant : que cette forme d’art ne soit pas censurée mais plutôt régularisée.