BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Seizing the moment after a high-visibility Super Bowl performance, street artist Alberto León created a wheatpaste titled “America” in Barcelona. The piece is tightly composed and references several of the instant memes that followed the event, touching on themes of unity, fulfilled promises, the cultural force of patriotic sports spectacle, and the racial tensions stirred by reactions on the political right. It shows Bad Bunny holding the hand of his younger self, offering him the Grammy he had received the week before, while a football of American unity is raised overhead, doves pass through the scene, and a bewildered Donald Trump stands nearby.
Alberto León is a Spanish artist whose work ranges from graphic and visual production to street-based work, shaped by time spent between the Canary Islands and larger urban centers, where design, print culture, and mural practice intersect. His imagery often draws on widely recognizable figures, sentimental or socially charged scenarios, and fragments of mass-media language, positioned for quick reading in public space. Stylistically, he works in a pop-urban register that combines grayscale photographic or stencil-like imagery with typographic elements, collage textures, and saturated paint gestures to create high-contrast compositions.
Special thanks to photographer Lluis Olive Bulbena for sharing his images with BSA readers.
