josé manuel egea and daldo marte

Daldo was extremely shy since he was a little child. He was diagnosed with a slight mental disability but his mother doesn’t talk much about his condition. She has always given him all her support and care, and as she was a teacher, she took care of his education at home. During Daldo’s childhood and adolescence, he began to make his own toys. First, he used paper, then carton board, and finally he found a unique way to create his toys. He uses the inner rubber tubes from old car tires to create a great diversity of little figures: animals, humanoids, spaceships and all kind of creatures from his own fantasy world and from his preferred comics and cartoons. Some of them are just cut out[…]

Convinced of his lycanthropy (belief in the transformation of a man into a wolf), this young Madrid-based artist draws inspiration from Kafkaesque metamorphoses in comics and mythology. His polymorphic work—drawings, sculptures, performances—urges us to embrace our repressed therianthropy (human-to-animal transformation). Represented by the gallery since 2016, his works appeared recently in Photo | Brut #2 in Brussels (2022), Portreto de la Animo at the Museo Nacional de Soares dos Reis in Porto (2023), as well as at Fundación ONCE in Madrid and Fondation Francès (2024). His creations are part of major European collections, including those of Hervé Lancelin, Laurent Dumas, and Piet Meyer.