Barcelona-born, London-based Cristian Zuzunaga studied Typo/Graphic Design at the London College of Communication followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art in London, where he started exploring the use of pixels to produce colourful visual landscapes.
Since 2004, Cristian Zuzunaga has been looking at the city as a metaphor, a living organism that evolves and changes in a way that reflects our own evolution. His work deals with gravity, abstraction, randomness, repetition, time and space. Architecture and the way global cities such as Barcelona, London, New York or Shanghai are constructed, inspires and gives form to his versatile visual vocabulary.
Zuzunaga's graphic patterns derive from zooming in on images he has taken of cityscapes until the image is broken down into these infinitesimal geometric shapes. He is interested in the subtlety and uniqueness of colour combinations that allow each image to exist, and in the unexpectedness of the patterns the pixels create. Moreover, the pixel is emblematic of the notion that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. An image can only exist thanks to its pixilation in the same way that a city is only a city as a result of the combination of buildings and people that inhabit it. His patterns are a metaphor for our cities, illustrating the way in which they can only exist as a result of endlessy possible combinations of individual characters.