I was left without a job and found a destiny: painting.
Impossible projects, made possible.
I'm from Barcelona, born in 1977. I've been known as Mapa since 2020, and my obsession is clear: making projects possible that others see as impossible. I don't wait for commissions. I create them. Day after day. From scratch.
With Copyright77, my art studio in Barcelona, I became my own client. I don't paint to please. I paint because I need to. That's how I started: creating without expecting anything in return. Now, I hope to sell you my art.
Do you know who Isra Bravo is? As he says, changing the world sounds good in a cheap speech. Not me. I paint. What I'm trying to do is simpler: leave a mark on whoever comes across my art. But not just in my home.
Why do I tell you this? Because like Isra Bravo, I'm a father, and I have a son who still has his baby teeth... and every night I also put him to sleep with stories I make up just for him. And he already tells me: "Dad, I like your paintings."
Copyright77: my studio, your walls… if you dare.
Beautiful is easy. I make it unforgettable.
Defining what I do isn’t easy. And that’s better. Because easy is boring. My art doesn’t match your sofa. It matches your mind. I paint to leave scars in memory, not to decorate walls.
What I do is a wild cocktail: a bit of the abstract, a nod to Pollock’s most unrestrained dripping, and the boldness of mixing styles like someone breaking rules with a smile. In every piece I break patterns—or it wouldn’t be art.
I don’t come from academies or diplomas hanging on the wall. I come from something rawer, more powerful: self-motivation. That engine that never shuts off. That engine I call creativity.
I don’t create futures. I create new realities. Pretty is forgettable. The uncomfortable, the powerful, the strange… that stays. That’s my thing. If you want a piece that isn’t “pretty” but unforgettable, it’s yours… if you dare to buy it
With each piece I give you a written and signed document.
The story no one else will ever know, except you.
The art you buy… tells you a secret.
I’ll tell you something that almost no one knows: every time I finish a piece, I feel as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. It’s not just paint, or shapes, or colors. It’s a part of me that needed to come out. That’s why every painting has a name. And that name is no coincidence. It’s a clue to the story behind it: what moved me to start it, how long it took me to finish it, what memory got trapped in the canvas.
But here’s the curious thing: when you buy it, that story no longer belongs only to me. It begins to take on another meaning. Yours. And then… the magic happens: my work becomes your mirror. And together we write a new story.
Don’t look for “a pretty picture.” Look for the piece that shakes you inside. The one that, when you see it, whispers silently: “I am for you.”