From oil painting to the street
José Gasulla, publicly known as Chikitín, spent more than a decade painting in oils before extending his work into public space. The move did not abandon portraiture; it changed the surface, scale and audience.
Photocopied paste-ups, canvas adhered to walls and direct painting on shutters or façades all appear in his street practice.
A gaze multiplied
The artist’s best-known faces carry doubled or multiple eyes. The device can suggest alternative viewpoints, successive lives or an awakened inner gaze without turning every portrait into the same message.
Placed on worn doors and irregular walls, the eyes create an immediate exchange between the depicted face and the person moving past it.
A recurring presence around El Carme
Chikitín’s work has been repeatedly documented around El Carme and Torres de Quart, where temporary papers and painted surfaces sit within a dense, changing street-art environment.
The four-eyed doorway portrait photographed in 2020 preserves one clear example of that relationship between motif, neighbourhood texture and passing pedestrian view.
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