Carlos Llobet is a Costa Rican printmaker and painter. As a teen he discovered a love for street art, the impact large format prints have on the public, and how something displayed outside a museum or a gallery space can have new relevance. For the past two years in Costa Rica, Llobet has made many art interventions in public areas using murals and wheat paste.
Llobet's prints are a snapshot of the people in San José who earn a living by doing informal jobs like lottery salesmen, shoe shiners, marimba players, and car watchmen. Taking life on the street as his subject, Llobet seeks to bring to the forefront the plight of the less fortunate who are struggling economically in world where the gap between the upper class and lower class is widening. Llobet explores the intrinsic quality of multiplicity in print media to create large-scale works of art using collage, painting, and weaving.