Biography
Leandro Bustamante, known as ElReina, is a Uruguayan muralist born in Montevideo. He belongs to the new generation of wall painters that has renewed the city's street art scene since the mid-2010s, alongside Colectivo Licuado, Alfalfa and Cobre Art.
His graphic vocabulary favours a colourful, stylised figurative style, often centred on living nature — native birds, local flora, Atlantic coastline landscapes. The artist treats urban wildlife as a form of heritage memory: his murals work as illustrated inventories reminding residents of the biodiversity that coexists with them a few metres from their doorstep.
His works are mainly concentrated along Montevideo's Rambla and in the neighbourhoods of Palermo, Barrio Sur and Ciudad Vieja. In 2022, he painted for the WANG Festival a mural on a wall of Club Atenas in Palermo, dedicated to the native birds of the Rambla Sur — a manifesto for the protection of an often-invisible urban ecosystem.
His graphic vocabulary favours a colourful, stylised figurative style, often centred on living nature — native birds, local flora, Atlantic coastline landscapes. The artist treats urban wildlife as a form of heritage memory: his murals work as illustrated inventories reminding residents of the biodiversity that coexists with them a few metres from their doorstep.
His works are mainly concentrated along Montevideo's Rambla and in the neighbourhoods of Palermo, Barrio Sur and Ciudad Vieja. In 2022, he painted for the WANG Festival a mural on a wall of Club Atenas in Palermo, dedicated to the native birds of the Rambla Sur — a manifesto for the protection of an often-invisible urban ecosystem.
The site contains a total of 1 artworks by ElReina in 1 countries.
