Alberto Ricardo (XXI) - Yoshi Pop: El Color de la Nostalgia

Work of art by artist Alberto Ricardo, created using the Giclée printing technique on high-quality professional canvas, 100% cotton, highly resistant to handling and external agents, from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy brand, satin finish.
We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Dimension of 65 x 70 cm, with 5 cm depth.
Limited edition 2/5, hand-signed on the front.
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The work will be rolled and protected with several layers of packaging, bubble nylon, and placed in a sturdy tube.
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The piece will arrive within ten days, depending on the destination country.
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In this canvas-printed image, the figure of Yoshi — the charming green dinosaur from the Nintendo universe — emerges from chromatic chaos as a modern icon redrawn from the language of pop art and graphic expressionism. It is not just a children's illustration nor a simple depiction of an animated character; this composition is an aesthetic celebration of the video game as a cultural form legitimized by contemporary art.

From a technical point of view, the artist employs a style that combines digital illustration with elements of street art. The bold and deliberately imperfect strokes, the thick white outline borders, and the use of paint splashes in the background directly evoke urban graffiti, alternative comic covers, and the vitality of street art. The color—an absolute protagonist—is applied with an almost gestural force: acid greens, intense reds, luminous contrasts that evoke dynamism and emotion. This technique does not seek realism but rather the exaltation of the playful character of the figure.

Yoshi appears here as a symbol of tenderness and fidelity, but also of cultural resistance. His bright gaze and rounded body retain the innocence of Nintendo's original design, but when placed within a lively, avant-garde pictorial setting, the character takes on a new layer of meaning. He is a figure that belongs to the collective imagination of generations, and at the same time, is reinvented as art. Childhood reinterpreted for adults with memory.

Conceptually, the image suggests a reflection on the power of symbols in the digital age. What makes a character like Yoshi into art worthy of galleries or walls? Perhaps it's not his formal complexity, but his ability to evoke. This Yoshi is no longer just Mario's faithful companion; he represents an era where playfulness and visual elements merge as a collective identity. The composition functions as a generational manifesto: colorful, optimistic, somewhat chaotic, but deeply emotional.

The background, saturated with stains and splashes, reinforces the idea of movement, of contained energy. Yoshi seems to move towards the viewer not with threat, but with enthusiasm. The character's expression — joyful, confident — invites us to recover something that has not been entirely lost: play, imagination, simple joy.

Yoshi Pop: The Color of Nostalgia is not just a decorative image: it is a statement. A work that shouts, with all its colors, that art can also smile.