TITO MULK

Tito Mulk – Hyperdrive

Acrylic on canvas mounted on stretcher
Diameter: 100 cm
Signed, titled and countersigned on the reverse

Description and Critical Analysis of the Work

With Hyperdrive, Tito Mulk unfolds a circular fresco brimming with details, where the iconography of pop culture collides with the density of an oversized comic strip. Against a blazing orange background—an incandescent, vibrating surface—intertwined silhouettes, robotic fragments, scientific references, mythological figures, and caricatures overlap and clash. At the center, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man serves as a symbolic anchor: the measure of man confronted with the visual and technological chaos of the 21st century.

The viewer is drawn into a spiral narrative: each fragment tells a micro-story, a gag, a critique, or a wink to art history and geek culture. The deliberately saturated aesthetic, reminiscent of underground comics, generates a visual vertigo where the eye both wanders and delights. The circularity of the composition, far from mere ornament, represents the idea of a loop, an endless circuit, like a hyperspace where humanity oscillates between ancient myths and modern addictions.

This painting is less a static image than a narrative playground, an exuberant fresco where each viewer reconstructs their own story. Tito Mulk deploys a corrosive energy here—humorous yet critical—through a hybrid visual language that is at once popular and masterfully controlled.

Biographical Note – Tito Mulk

Tito Mulk is an artist duo of painters and muralists who have been active for more than thirteen years. Coming from the world of advertising, they broke free from its codes to develop a singular, exuberant body of work where narrative drawing forms the heart of their practice.

Their method is based on three pillars:

• Accumulation of shapes and figures, opening an imaginative space for the viewer’s interpretation.

• References to pop culture, creating instant familiarity and complicity with the public.

• Typographic punchlines, reinforcing the critical and satirical impact of their images.

Their work, deeply committed, tackles social and political themes: the place of women in a patriarchal world, economic inequalities, ecological issues, the pandemic, and contemporary addictions. While they exhibit in galleries and create works on canvas, Tito Mulk also considers the urban space a democratic stage, ensuring that audiences far removed from museums and galleries can engage with their universe.

Thus, their hybrid practice—between muralism, street art, and graphic satire—emerges as one of the most vibrant expressions of contemporary art that refuses to choose between social critique and visual pleasure.