JAVIER MARISCAL (Almazora, Castellón, 1950). Untitled, November 2006. Oil on canvas.

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  JAVIER MARISCAL (Almazora, Castellón, 1950). Untitled, November 2006. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Size: 160 x 180 cm. On more than one occasion Javier Mariscal has shown his support for diversity and inclusion. For the Valencian cartoonist, we are all inhabitants of the same planet, "first cousins" who must cooperate in order to improve our daily life as a community. As he says in different media, "Diversity always brings something positive, if it is appreciated. Our societies are increasingly global and complex. The challenge today is to be able to unite this mix of cultures. His connection with art is, consequently, social and participatory: the canvas becomes for the illustrator a tool with which to make the world a better place. Sometimes, as in the work that concerns us, art is the way to give visibility to the facts and injustices that occur in our society, always with respect and tolerance. A renowned industrial designer, cartoonist and comic artist, Javier Mariscal has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1970. He studied design at the Elisava School in Barcelona, but soon abandoned his studies to learn directly from the environment and follow his own creative impulses. He began his career in the world of underground comics in publications such as "El Rrollo Enmascarado" or "Star", along with Farry, Nazario and Pepichek. After making his first own comics in the mid-seventies, in 1979 he designed the Bar Cel Ona logo, a work for which he began to be known by the general public. The following year the Dúplex opened in Valencia, the first bar signed by Mariscal, together with Fernando Salas, for which he designed one of his most famous pieces, the Dúplex stool, a true icon of design in the eighties both inside and outside our borders. In 1981 his work as a furniture designer led him to participate in the exhibition of the Memphis Group in Milan. In 1987 he exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and participated in the Documenta in Kassel. Two years later his design Cobi is chosen as the mascot for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, controversial at first but now recognized as the most profitable mascot in the history of the modern Games. In 1989 he created Estudio Mariscal and collaborated on various projects with designers and architects such as Arata Isozaki, Alfredo Arribas, Fernando Salas, Fernando Amat and Pepe Cortés. Among his most outstanding works are the visual identities for the Swedish Socialist Party, the Onda Cero radio station, the Barcelona Zoo, the University of Valencia, the Lighthouse design and architecture center in Glasgow, the GranShip cultural center in Japan, and the London post-production company Framestore. In 1999 he received the National Design Prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and the BCD Foundation in recognition of his entire professional career.
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