Cultura Urbana - Madrid

Urban culture emerged in the American suburbs to combat social exclusion, racism, and the economic crisis of 1929 with the crash of the New York Stock Exchange. Since the 1970s, urban culture has merged with hip hop. The movement has an important social role, since it represents the marginalized segments, stimulates the exercise of citizenship, breaks prejudice and unites forces.

maybe that's why this Hip Hop festival took that name,
We were only invited there as graffiti artists to create a fresco, but also to make a talk, and even more to take care of their graphic charter of the festival. Ah Also their Event T-shirt. 

The origin of the word graffiti comes from the Italian graffiti, which means "writing made with charcoal", and is used to denominate inscriptions made on walls since the Roman Empire. In the late 1960s, young people from the Bronx (New York City neighborhood) highlighted this artistic genre that uses spray paints. All calligraphic inscriptions and engravings (drawings) made in places considered irrelevant to the genre are called graphite. In 1968, there was a counter-cultural movement, where the walls of Paris were used as canvases for the practice of graphite, contributing to the worldwide generalization.

Gradually it lost its marginalized status and is now recognized as a form of expression, although it is an art exhibited in several art museums, some still disagree and call it graffiti, and consequently a criminal act. Graphite is much more complex than graffiti, but most graffiti artists have been graffiti artists. It is the specific visual art of street art / urban culture, which highlights the use of public spaces, with the intention of directly interfering in the urban routine.