Dates: 

Opening 21 may at 19.00​​

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Location: 

Calle del Fúcar, 17

Madrid

Thursday - Saturday, from 10AM - 19PM

LUIS AGULLÓ

Solo Exhibition, 21 May - 10 Jun.

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Punky Aliens- My Hidden Paintings

 

Espinasse31 presents PUNKY ALIENS – My Hidden Paintings, a solo exhibition by Luis Agulló featuring a series of completely unseen works created between 2013 and 2025. The exhibition opens on May 21 at Espinasse31  in Madrid and will remain on view for three weeks. For the first time, Espinasse31 unveils an intimate and previously unknown body of work by the Madrid-based artist.

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For over a decade, Agulló created this collection away from the commercial and institutional art circuit—a parallel universe of characters, stories, and atmospheres captured on canvas, then carefully packed and stored away in a storage room.

“These paintings have been my diary for ten years. Each one is a form of emotional therapy that I stored away permanently, with no intention of showing or revisiting them. One day, by chance, Eugenia Niño, a major Spanish art patron saw a couple of pictures and told me: ‘You have to show this,’” the artist explains.

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With a hybrid style that moves between industrial design, comic art, illustration, and retrofuturistic painting, PUNKY ALIENS explores two realms that have fascinated Agulló since childhood: outer space and deep-sea worlds. Colorful octopuses, spaceships, infinite windows, overwhelmed office workers, and alien creatures with human souls populate scenes where humor, nostalgia, and social commentary blend together.

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Each painting tells a story. From the poetic reverie of Window Dreams to the dystopian satire of Monday Morning, 6AM, and the ecological outcry of Emergency Exit, this exhibition reveals a deeply personal, emotional, and playful side of the artist, far removed from his better-known work.

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Luis Agulló (Madrid, 1975) began his career as a car designer. After winning Ferrari’s world design award “New Concepts of the Myth,” he joined the brand’s design team at the Centro Stile Ferrari in Maranello. However, in 2007 he made a radical shift in his career and has been fully dedicated to art since 2011. He has exhibited in cities such as Basel, Miami, Brussels, Madrid, and Busan, and was a finalist in several editions of the BMW Painting Prize. His work is part of the Spanish Artist Archive at the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, and included in institutional collections such as the Juan March Foundation and Fundación Pons.

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PUNKY ALIENS is an invitation to discover the kind of art created without expectations, from a place of intimacy—and precisely for that reason, it touches something essential and universal.

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