Joseph A. Romero Kurt218 under the pseudonym, begins at an early age to paint self-taught. Law degree from the University of Córdoba, her artistic aspirations have always been dormant since childhood. After working in several local magazines and get some prizes of little relevance, discover the importance of the nude under the influence of artists of Cordoba, leaving aside his first experience in the world of comics. Impressed by authors like Guayasamín, Orozco and Picasso, among others, begins to warp reality with glimpses of still retaining its original complaint expressions reinforce sensuality, anguish and loneliness on huge formats, tables and large-scale canvases.
After settling in Marbella, is diversifying production, discovering the countryside and the sea, and recovering the sensuality of the nude. Not until 1999, when your painting experience a brutal turn after living through the horrors of war in Sarajevo, an experience which definitely will mark his work. Issues such as ethnic cleansing, and disasters of war to two hours by plane in the middle of Europe will make your painting becomes more rough and rugged. The siege of Sarajevo, Mostar and Srebrenica killings are portrayed particularly severe for his camera and taken to the canvas in an exercise in monochrome, gray and red projectile impacts on walls, cementitious and dusty textures are what make this stage .
Sometimes, film, mythology, music and existential failure are recurrent themes in his work, not without hints of permanent taste for the solemnity and the icon, unequivocal sign of looking for a hero to save us from this mess . This explains his tribute to the samurai, Superheroes, writers, philosophers, or Elvis himself. Beauty will save the world and if not die in the attempt.

Theme and style.

Halfway between abstraction and figuration, the author proposes a comprehensive pictorial language, but recreated in effects and textures impossible. Incompatible blends disparate techniques reveal a picture that does not give up their origins in the comic. Often enigmatic characters wander through a surreal limbo, desolate wilderness, suburbs, or scenarios are common in war paint Kurt218.
The topics are varied, although all agree on the idea of the role of humans in their attempt to make the world a better stay. Success or failure depends on the eyes that look.