Hyuro born Tamara Djurovic (1974 – November 19, 2020) was an

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-born

Street artist A street artist is a person who makes art in public places. Street artists include portrait artists, caricaturists, graffiti artists, muralists and people making crafts. Street artists can also refer to street performers such as musicians, acrob ...

who came to notice when based in

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in Spain. Her huge murals appear in many countries. They frequently feature faceless women and they highlight issues including gender based violence and deaths due to abortion.

Life

She was born in 1974 in

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. She had learned to be an artist and paint but on canvas. Her career came to notice when she came to Europe to take a master's degree at the

Technical University of Valencia The Technical University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV; , es, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) is a Spanish university located in Valencia, with a focus on science, technology, and arts. It was founded ...

and she became involved in street art. She was introduced to the appeal of murals by Escif who is based in Valencia. He was born in 1997 and his art consists of simple images designed to make the viewer think. Hyuro's first mural on a wall was in 2010. Hyuro's images are also monochrome or with very muted colours. Initially her work was illegal but then she was asked to take part in festivals where the paintings were permitted by the organisers. In 2014 a mural for the

Living Walls Living Walls, The City Speaks is an annual street art conference co-founded in 2009 by Monica Campana & Blacki Migliozzi. Blankenship, Jessica (13 August 2010)"Living Walls" ''Creative Loafing''. The conference was first held in 2010. It was origina ...

project by Hyuro depicting a naked woman was vandalised in Atlanta. It was painted over after residents called the mural "pornographic." Poliniza 12-05-2015 15

In 2018 she created a mural in

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of two fighting nonidentical twins to highlight the political tensions between Scotland and England. The work was part of the Nuart Aberdeen Festival and as usual the faces of the combatants are not on display. Hyuro said that she tried to not show faces in her murals as this left the murals more open for interpretation by the viewer. To create the murals she does a lot of preparation. She frequently takes photographs of herself in the poses she requires and then gathers the studies into a larger group. In 2019 she painted "Keep it Green" which shows a car hidden under a green sheet in Aalborg in Denmark.

Death and legacy

She died in

in November 2020 of leukaemia. She has left her work around Europe, particularly in Spain, but also in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Morocco and Tunisia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hyuro 1974 births 2020 deaths Argentine muralists Argentine women muralists Artists from Valencia