Aldo Urbano

Using humour and a somewhat exaggerated mystical tone, El asalto de los pillos addresses issues such as social inequality and the lack of opportunities, the reactions of a poisoned land, or the passage of time. The comic’s simple and direct drawings unfold a fable with a rather twisted moral. The characters have adventures and seek help in a woe-begotten land where humour is more an inevitable consequence than a conscious decision. Unscrupulous thugs, losers and drifters abound in the strips, giving rise to reflections and conflicts, not to mention many comic situations. And yet, despite all their setbacks, there is room for the search for wisdom, something that only some of them will find.

Biography

Aldo Urbano Pérez (Barberà del Vallès, 1991) uses painting to investigate the mechanisms of perception in search of a transformative experience. His work also encompasses drawing and writing, hence the narrative quasi-comic forms he adopts. His work has been shown in venues such as La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2024), Bombon Projects (Barcelona, 2023, 2020, 2017), Simon Lee (London, 2022), the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 2021) and EtHall (l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 2018). He has been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona, 2020–2022), HISK (Brussels, 2019), Can Serrat (El Bruc, 2017) and the Sandarbh Artist Residency (India, 2014).

He is one of the recipients of the 2025 Quarterly Residencies for Visual Artists at the Matadero Madrid Centre for Artists in Residence.