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This is Hosh https://vimeo.com/100551237

Joshua Socias Molina as HOSH

Joshua’s family

Joshua’s dad is Jose Maria Socias, a musician who plays the drums and was born in Barcelona.

His mum is Natacha Molina who was born in Tangiers, Morrocco.

She worked in a little shop called “Aromas”, but now she is retired.

Joshua has got an older sister called Melanie.

All his family live in Ibiza.

Joshua’s childhood

Josh belongs to the 80’s generation where the children played in the streets with freedom and where the children interacted and shared games with other kids. They learned from eachother. During that time he had lots of different experiences in his neighborhood, some of them marked his artistic life:

“Breakdance, skateboard and graffiti”.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE BREAKDANCE

Hosh was ten when he

became fascinated by

the older children of his

neighborhood who wore

cool laces in their

trainers and also danced

in an amazing way.

•The influence of the breakdance

He really liked the music of

that moment which he used

to watch on a TV programme

called “TOCATA”.

One day he bought his 1st

cassette tape of a famous

film called “Breakdance”, and

after school when the

classes finished he and his

friends practised the

movements that they had

seen in the film and the older

children at his school doing.

Let’s watch a video clip The breakdance of the 80’s

THE INFLUENCE OF SKATEBOARD

Hosh soon discovered the skateboarding world and left behind the breakdancing for a little while.

He watched videos with his friends and after seeing them he tried to copy and practise some of the movements with his skateboard.

It was fascinating for him.

• During that time the music that the skaters followed was: Beach Boys, Bad Religion, Beastie boys and Public Enemy.

The day that changed his life

In 1994 Hosh with three of his friends formed the first graffiti group in Ibiza. They got information about graffiti art in the big cities thanks to a magazine called “Fancines” . This was how they learned : reading articles and magazines.

One night in 1991 Hosh saw a documentary on TVE1 called “ Pintadas “ about : el Muelle a graffitti writer pioneer in Spain. The impact which it had on him was so great that after watching the program he went to a shop and bought his first can of spraypaint to write like el “Muelle” his name on walls. It was his 1st contact with the graffiti.

Hosh’s academic training

• Hosh studied in Santa Maria High School (Ibiza) secondary education after that He moved to Madrid to continue his studies at Art school .These were his first steps before going to University.

• In Madrid he continued painting and taking part the world of Graffiti , Hip Hop and Breakdance.

• His next step in his personal training was to go to Barcelona to study at the University and where he lived for 15 years.

His life in Barcelona

• In Barcelona Hosh studied Bellas Artes. At that time the culture of Hip Hop and graffiti was booming in the city and Hosh met lots of graffiti writers and some of them Breakdanced and so they inspired him.

• He painted trains, underground, legal walls and illegal ones.

BACK TO HIS HOMETOWN

Nowadays Hosh lives in Ibiza with his wife and his little girl.

He has become an legitimate artist. He is a Graffiti writer and also he does art exhibitions as we can see on his website:

http://www.hoshgraffiti.com/

He is also a Capoeira monitor and teaches in schools and gyms.

Hosh has became one of the most outstanding Graffiti Writers in Ibiza after working very hard in his personal training.

Making contributions to urban spaces

Graffiti is the engine that drives

him to travel to different countries (New York , Brazil,

Germany , Sweden, France , Belgium, etc . ) For taking

part exhibitions in various urban

spaces.

ARTISTICALLY

Josh 's work is characterized:

He has exhibited his

art works:

• Simple visual graffiti language.

• The contrast and the colour of his characters and

letters.

In different cities such as : Ibiza, Barcelona, Madrid London etc.

He brings a smile and a moment of

reflection when people look at his

graffiti.

The tallest graffiti in Spain made by Hosh

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/04/24/madrid/1240570055.html