GEOMETRIC INVADERS

The last year the urban French artist Invader chose Málaga to place 29 geometric works shaped like pixelated interventions in the style of the game 'Space Invaders'. 

His work consists of multiple mosaics that represent, principally, the spaceships of the arcade game who triumphed in the 80's. His creations can be in a wall of the promenade of Málaga or in diverse streets of the historical center. From this personal project, Invader has developed his own figures in all kinds of forms and colors, but always in the line of compositions based on small mosaics that simulate pixels.

His work tries, especially, to liberate the art "of the alienation that museums and institutions can suppose". But it also has as motive to dig up the characters of the game 'Space Invaders' of the screens to bring them to our physical world. 

Keeping to the geometry, the works are composed of small square units of diverse sizes which distribution forms different animations, as a "bailora", a crab, a beach or even Picasso. The contours also are squared, so there are not curves, but straight lines, whose angles are 90 degrees.

In its web page, Space-Invaders.com, appears as a location the capital of Malaga. Invader has an own application for mobiles, Flash Invaders, in which the user gains points whenever it takes a photo to one of his works, since the pixelated design of these ones allows the camera to detect about which it treats. In this way, the followers of this artist of French origin can accumulate points and compete between them. The 29 designs placed by the capital contribute to the users of the application 1.020 points. 

One year later, many of the works continue in the of Malaga streets. This one is one more sample of how the geometry is represented in art, and in this case a kind of art as curious as they are the pixelated squares to create geometric figures.