The Messenger — artwork #10171 by Uri KTHR · La Bañeza, Spain
graffiti hyperreal hourglass ecosystem portrait ecology
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Oriol Márquez Cateura, better known as Uri KTHR, is a Spanish muralist born in the 1990s in Molins de Rei (Barcelona) and based in L'Ametlla de Mar, Tarragona. A Fine Arts graduate of the University of Barcelona, he developed a full-time mural practice straight after his studies. His politically engaged work explores the relationship between ecological crisis and the resilience of nature, through…
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Added 19/05/2026
A hyper-realist mural painted in July 2024 by Uri KTHR on the gable end of an apartment building on Calle Juan Carlos I Rey in La Bañeza, for the Art Aero Rap festival. The composition stages a green-eyed young woman in a green drape, holding a glass hourglass containing a miniature ecosystem (earth, plants, skull) — a metaphor of the messenger of life and nature addressed to the viewer. The piece ranked 12th best mural in the world for 2024 on Street Art Cities.
The artwork The Messenger is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of La Bañeza in Spain, more precisely here: Calle Juan Carlos I Rey, 24750 La Bañeza (León).
This graffiti is also tagged as: hyperreal, hourglass, ecosystem, portrait, ecology.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Uri KTHR
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