By: Viviana García
He studied graphic design at the National University, his real name is Andrés Montoya. He hides behind the alias of Toxicómano Callejero. He is very good designer, but bad cartoonist, in fact, very bad. Then he decided to design his graffiti from his home computer and then experiment with the stencil. So the proposal carries a graphic design with social content to the street.
The style he uses are high-contrast images in black and white with a sign right next to make sure the image style is like advertisement. At other times he copies standard images of advertising and changes their message. His images cause laughter. His messages often include wordplay and double meanings and this makes an impression on the public.
Toxicomano means drug addict in Europe, He choose this name because of the strong reaction it offers and because He wanted to be different from other artists using Anglicisms or simple syllables to be named.
At first, he would go out only to scratch the walls at night, until a policeman approached him and asked: What are you doing? and he answered: Nothing bad. Then the policeman replied and if you are doing nothing wrong eventhough it is so late? Toxicomano then thought for several days about the policemans question and one day he decided to paint during the day.. Now nobody says anything because they think it is legal or that he has permission to paint on the wall.
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