He was born Albert Porta in 1946 and, after a brief stay in the Barcelona mental hospital that marked his career, adopted the nickname Zush until 2001. That year he began to build a new universe and adopted the name he never abandoned: Evru. The artist, one of the most unique in the Catalan art world, died this Thursday at the age of 79. Under the name Evru, he had been building a social and political consciousness that would lead him to imagine his own territory: the Evrugo Mental State. An invented country with all that this implies: language, flag, anthem, currency, a system of diplomatic relations, and a set of emblems that give it the substance of a state.