A few weeks ago I was for two days taking pictures and recording videos in an artistic intervention of an abandoned buttons factory here in Buenos Aires, a great time, very good artist, very good place, with the best organization of the girls of “Algún Lado“.
Here some of the material of those days.
Button Factory on Vimeo
More in my portfolio
Button Factory Flickr set
Esta es una postal que hice para la charla “Vinos de Película” que van a estar dando mis amigos Maya Garcia y Luis R. Duque en el VIII Salón Internacional de Gastronomia 2009 en Caracas, Venezuela.
La película que escogí fue “Casablanca“, un clásico del cine y una de mis películas favoritas.La foto original es de una de mis secuencias favoritas de la película, los flashbacks de Paris, recuerdos de tiempos felices.
La trama de flores del fondo es un intento de imitar uno de los estampados que usa Ilsa en su ropa mas adelante en la película, ese tipo de tramas abundan en la película, muestra de una excelente dirección de arte.
El dialogo en la postal no es exactamente de esa escena, viene en la siguiente, pero me pareció apropiado incluirlo aquí, unas palabras que dicen mucho.
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine”.
VIII Salón Internacional de Gastronomia 2009
photos taken in Guanare, in the plains of Venezuela for the art project El Mas Santo. Thanks to Alexis Ziritt for gift me one of the figures.
El Mas Santo
El Mas Santo Flickr Photoset
my participation
The art project it has its origins in Poland, where a young artist has chosen lucha libre as the topic of her work. The idea was to juxtapose the world of Mexican wrestlers with the grey and sad reality of Polish streets. As it happens, the project got out of control. Luchadores figures, which were originally made as part of the diplomma work, started to show up in different, faraway countries. Mind your step because you may meet one of these small warriors someday.
an advancement of new paintings by Gustavo Rugeles, wonderful work.
Kumo-Z Rayos Fotonicos
Studio in Heiqiao
In New York I went to Mocca 2009, to the presentation of Mekano Turbo, the new comics of Alexis Ziritt and Calavera Comics, was the first time I went to a Mocca and was great, I met great artists and got out with 2 bags full of comics.
Among all the people that I knew that highlights Frank Gonzalez, a very cool guy and a excellent painter, and Bagger43, a great designer and Illustrator, both were on the table of Calavera Comics, thanks for all the care that they had, and thanks to Bagger43 for gift me his two new books of sketches and the Kamen Rider Poster.
Is ready the model number #0 from Perro Tureco, thank you very much to all collaborators for their excellent work, Carlos Etcheverry Borlo, Martín López, Diego Rondon y a Franco Rampaldi.
El Perro Tureco stopped at times to pursue the famous “El Silbón”, illustrious character of the Venezuelan imagery to become a representative anthology of Venezuelan comics, involving the visions of Venezuelan and Latin American artists, cartoonists, designers, and how many people exist within the scope of the construction of images.
Arises again from its founders the need, both as debt themselves, to see published one volume with the honors that he deserves the language of the comic, currently in this tropical land is scarce and thus we to fill this gap in the visual arts and graphics reinforce traditional cultural values that occur in Venezuela.
In short, PT is good to see printed in the mink role of artists and writers participating in it and want to perpetuate the graphic language.
It is an excuse to attract sequential graphic production, writing stories and literature if not enlightened.
Latin America is portraying through the chart.
Is to open a timeless space that allows to talk about what is happening at present.
It is a sort of treaty as a character vital. Is humanity.
Black and white, full machete.
Culture is to look through the comic.
PT now seeks to recover what has been sleeping in our Latin American culture, or as someone said at some point …. a culture indo-european-afro-american…
PT is Comic, and Comic is culture. Is to meet again after so long, joking and kicking ass. Is the use of a particular language, funny words, past tone, strong, heavy… in some ways a tribute to the story with sequential images.
¨We must create a world between two screams.¨
Over and out.
Zircons
My friend and partner in Zircons, my comrade of many adventures Gustavo Rugeles, has just published its site, Kumo-Z, that I helped to develop.
So far, Kumo-z is a space to show some of Gustavo R. Rugeles G.´s formal works for clients and experimental projects. He is a visual artist proficient in drawing, with knowledge in painting, illustration, photography and motion graphics. He has been attracted to the elements of image construction, consequently, drawing had became his primary language and discipline that he uses to explore the possibilities to define an idea or concept. As a drawer he experience with different graphic techniques such as etching, mezzotint, xylography and experimental. Currently he resides in Beijing – China developing a project about interaction between drawing and painting called ¨Desintegrations¨ that combines fluid charcoal lines with strong acrylics gesture strokes on canvas which focuses in the study of the anatomy of characters. Co-founder of Zircons, an audiovisual arts collective. Currently they are working on a experimental sequential art project called ¨Perro Tureco¨.
Kumo-Z Rayos Fotonicos
Kumo-Z Blog
Gustavo Rugeles Flickr
Gustavo Rugeles Behance
Gustavo Rugeles Linkedin
Zircons
Perro Tureco
Our friend Mark Malazarte, designer of Calavera Comics, has in his blog an incredible collection of images, highly recommended to seek inspiration.
Waxin & Milkin: http://waxandmilk.tumblr.com/
Mark Malazarte: http://www.myspace.com/markmizzles
Marks´s Behance:http://www.behance.net/markmizzles
Calavera Comics: http://www.calaveracomics.com
My friends of Calavera Comics were in the MoCCA Art Festival 2008, where they presented successfully Rudo #1, Rudo: Special Edition and Callinazo #1.
Timothy Callahan comment: Rudo #1, Rudo: Special Edition, and Gallinazo #1, from Calavera Comics. Alexis Ziritt draws like an angry Paul Pope, and the comics from this company are filled with drunken, gun-toting luchadores. Also Zombies and Dodge Chargers. These guys are still young, and they’re producing some cool comics already. I’ll be keeping an eye out for their future projects. Plus, no hentai fans at the table.
Calavera Comics: http://www.calaveracomics.com/
MoCCA Art Festival 2008: http://www.moccany.org/
Alexis Ziritt MoCCA 2008 Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aziritt/sets/72157605526144260/
Timothy Callahan: http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com/
Paloqia: http://www.redegalega.org/polaqia/
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