Anti-pintadas is a visual documentation of Seville City Hall’s attempts to tackle the proliferation of easy graffiti by not very visually attuned individuals (read: tags, low effort scribbles). At the end of February, 2024 I began to notice the appearance of strange patch-like paintings applied directly to the mostly lazy graffiti (and some legitimate works of art) covering the city. The reason for the almost-but-not-quite color matches, as I would learn while researching this book, was in the process of color-mixing. Part of the over 2-million euro contract includes 10 vans that allow the two-person teams to prepare colors on the spot and apply them as needed. The anti-pintada process, pioneered in Oviedo, Spain, allows the workers to act quickly on almost any surface—except for metal, wood, or surfaces covered with tiles.
