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El Rughi

El Rughi – Italian Psychedelic Graffiti Artist Based in Barcelona

About El Rughi

El Rughi is a self-taught Italian urban artist born in 1989 in Martina Franca, Apulia, and now based in Barcelona. His visual language combines classic graffiti, underground comics, psychedelic culture, children's illustration, tattoo influences and contemporary graphics.

Urban Arts News presents El Rughi as a featured artist connected with Barcelona, combining selected Instagram works with an independent editorial profile and city-based discovery.

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Selected El Rughi Posts

El Rughi · Barcelona

El Rughi · Selected Work 1

Selected Instagram work by El Rughi, featured in the Urban Arts News archive for Barcelona, Italy.

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El Rughi · Barcelona

El Rughi · Selected Work 2

Selected Instagram work by El Rughi, featured in the Urban Arts News archive for Barcelona, Italy.

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El Rughi · Barcelona

El Rughi · Selected Work 3

Selected Instagram work by El Rughi, featured in the Urban Arts News archive for Barcelona, Italy.

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About El Rughi and Urban Art in Barcelona

El Rughi’s selected works bring a playful psychedelic dimension to the Barcelona collection on Urban Arts News. Born in Martina Franca in southern Italy and now based in Barcelona, the artist developed his visual language through graffiti, experimentation and connections with underground creative scenes across Europe. His work combines colourful characters, animals, plants, comic influences and unexpected patterns in compositions that are energetic and immediately recognisable. The three Instagram publications above place the artworks first and show how humour, imagination and graphic detail interact within his practice. El Rughi describes his approach as children-friendly psychedelic painting, a phrase that captures both its accessible playfulness and its surreal visual intensity. This profile connects his Italian background with Barcelona’s contemporary graffiti scene and provides routes to the city page, international gallery and official Instagram archive. It also places the artist within broader searches for psychedelic murals, comic-inspired street art and Italian urban artists working in Barcelona.

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