David De La Mano

David de la Mano (born 1975 in Salamanca) is a Spanish artist known for his black-and-white murals peopled with human silhouettes. He has lived and worked in Uruguay.

David de la Mano studied fine art at the University of Salamanca, where he specialised in stone carving and sculpture, then worked towards a doctorate in public art at the University of Valencia. From 1993, he worked in public space with sculptures, installations and land art, then turned to mural painting.

His walls are in Europe, the Americas, Taiwan and Tunisia. In 2015, he painted "Deambulantes" in the Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo for the Wang Street Art Festival. In 2018, the Upeart festival invited him to Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2021, with "Cosmos", he covered the three storeys of the entrance hall of the Catholic University of Uruguay, alongside the artist Andrés Cocco. Fousion Gallery in Barcelona represents him and showed his work at the Urvanity fair in Madrid in 2022.

His figures, reduced to black silhouettes, advance in groups or merge into a mass. He often chooses abandoned buildings, where a window or daylight becomes part of the image.