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Fab Ciraolo - Old School Heroes, mythological portraits of Pop Culture

 


The Chilean Illustrator Fab Ciraolo, distmitifica roles and icons, showing us some of the most ambiguous, frivolous, and even why not say it more bizarre aspects. Of many of the most idiotic personalities of the last one hundred years.


Discontrasting the character sometimes practicing the most militant iconoclasm. His is not only limited to a more or less subjective interpretation from a psychoanalytical perspective of the character. Regardless of whether this is confined to the world of fiction as in the case of Edward Scissorhands.


Emblematic character created by the famous film director Tim Burton. Or real personalities who, due to their transcendence or contribution in some social or historical field, have deserved Fab's creative attention.


Such as relevant and influential figures, each in their own facet, such as Cleopatra, empress of ancient Egypt, one of the first women leaders in history. Or the closest in time, the painter Frida Khalo. He portrays them preserving their almost mythological halo, but subtly incorporating elements that belong to a much more current context.



Adding elements of the contemporary culture that revitalize it, updating it for the new generations that observe it as if it were a figure that was relevant in another time and under another social and cultural prism. He reinvents himself by being able to identify himself with him.


Great fan of music, an element that he adds in the form of a fetish or tattoo to his compositions. In which through collage and nuances of Pop culture, he develops a language where the visual impact of the work leads the viewer to a state of mixed amazement and awe as well as admiration. Exciting sensation that far from being diluted in the innocent effervescence that underlies the background, feeds it by demanding the segregation of large doses of dopamine.


His relationship with art begins in childhood due to the influence of his father, selling his first work at the early age of ten. This makes him think that he can make a living from his art.


READ IT IN SPANISH: Fab Ciraolo - Old School Heroes, retratos mitológicos de la cultura Pop



Graduated in graphic design, discipline that relegates to the background in favor of the stroke of illustration. With whose works he has managed to make a name for himself thanks to the presence he has on the Internet. He combines his artistic facet with the musical, being a member of the band Oh Margot, with whom he has released an Ep at the end of 2001.


Starting from a quick sketch, he draws by hand, both in pencil and the part of color and shading using a mechanical pencil 01, adding the shadows and finally coloring with watercolors, temperas and acrylics, also oils, dry pastel and colored pencils. Once the preliminary version is ready, it is digitalized and the necessary filters are applied to complete the illustration.




Rone and his Empty series, portraits in an abandoned Art Nouveau theatre

 


In many of the interventions of the urban artist Rone, based in the Australian city of Melbourne, a shared constant can be observed, which links uninhabited places and their architecture with their human facet.


Applying soft tones, he transmits through architectural portraits different emotions that the residents of the buildings experienced at the time and that they had to leave in many cases in a hasty manner due to an accident or an eviction or simply because the economic activity that existed in the vicinity of the house ceased. 

Creating an atmosphere where nostalgia and uncertainty dramatize the whole, managing to transmit in a poetic way the experiences that were lived in that place at a certain time not so long ago. Portraits full of nostalgia and eloquence that serve to fill architectural voids in languishing buildings.

For his latest work entitled Empty, made over two years in different locations in Melbourne, he explores the relationship between beauty and decadence. For this, she represents the faces of different women according to a specific context, a theatre, a single-family house, or for example the old facilities of a spa.

In this case the chosen scenario is the venue that housed, Art Nouveau Lyric Theatre, a majestic building dating from 1920, and that if no one remedies will be irremediably demolished. A space that Rone already knew because he had been exploring it on different occasions previously studying the possibilities it offered. 


Read it in Spanish: Rone y su serie Empty, retratos en un teatro Art Nouveau abandonado 


Finally he decided to undertake an epic transformation that would include not only the main stalls with their seating capacity, but also the rest of the rooms. A building in which the first time he was there he experienced a feeling that overwhelmed him, it had such a cold atmosphere, those high ceilings and the corridors in semi-darkness, that he tried to imagine those frequented by the artists and the public that filled it for seasons.

he set of murals is painted over some original artwork that was only revealed by accident when they decided to clean the wall before painting it. Running along both sides of the space are two rows of hanging art pieces that seem to magically float in the air. On the right side twelve painted portraits, on the left eight photos of Rone's works are displayed in a dramatic context. 

A discreet peephole looking into the black warehouse next door revealed another mural rising from the rubble covered floor. The boards had numerous small holes drilled into it allowing light to pierce the black void. The whole spectacle was impeccable, a true testament to the two thousand people who came during its opening weekend when all the works were sold.


The works of the Empty series in photographic format are part of a traveling exhibition whose first exhibition held in October of last year took place in a disused hangar that was presided over by one of the portraits made on a large scale.

 

Lagaleriademagdalena - #Encaja_Dos, un retrato humano para recuperar el espacio publico


Con el objetivo de exhibir sus trabajos y los de otros artistas afines, el emprendedor y promotor artistico y actividades en el ambito publico Dennis Beckham y las artistas Reichel Congosto y Isa Arenas crearon la plataforma Lagaleriademagdalena. 



Un espacio interdescisplinar con sede en Madrid que además sirve como plataforma desde la que en trabajar en sus proyectos que se desarrollan en la esfera publica. Intervenciones urbanas en donde muestran su potencial creativo y humano. En su mas reciente propuesta titulada #Encaja_Dos, reinventan el modelo iniciado por el retratista callejero universal JR. Adaptandolo a una caja que realiza las funciones de marco, mediante el que les participante posan ofreciendo su mejor versión. 


Obteniendo una instantánea en primer del sujeto con la que posteriormente se realiza una impresión en escala de grises, empapelando de humanidad un punto concreto de la ciudad. La experiencia que se concibió como una actividad esporádica, tuvo su primera versión en Septiembre. 


Eligiendo como lugar un solar del popular barrio de Born! en Barcelona,  donde debido a la expectación que suscito su presencia se demoraron hasta seis en realizar el collage con el que transformaron una tapia desconchada, en un crisol donde mediante las sonrisas de cientos de modelos anónimos, representaron la multiculturalidad de sus vecinos y su heteregoneidad racial y social.


Las exhibiciones pop-up de la iniciativa Lagaleriademagdalena como la titulada  - #Encaja_Dos fomentan las dinámicas creativas en el espacio publico desde una optica participativa y comunitaria.


Para la secuela de #Encaja_Dos se trasladaron a la localidad próxima de Rivas Vaciamadrid. Donde en el marco de las actividades de la ultima edición del Festival Cultural en las calles de Rivas, y teniendo un canal de los que recorre la principal zona verde de la ciudad. Obtuvieron un ADN gráfico diferente que reflejaba una uniformidad compuesta básicamente por unidades familiares y parejas jóvenes, que posando con sus niños o por libre ofrecen un retrato de una comunidad dinámica y efervescente.





Desmond Blair, America Way LIfe Portraits, a personal creative and technological challenge

 


Although the samples we have selected are made with traditional techniques, Dallas-based artist Desmond Blair works with digital art and 3D techniques. With which he reproduces scenarios close to the language of science fiction.


Becoming small graphic passages made in key Pop culture through which Desmond analyzes and gives us through elaborate canvases whose aesthetic result is close at times to hyperrealism, a subjective vision of both those events more related to cultural background and some of its most insigniess figures such as the legendary actor John Wayne.


Known mainly for devoting much of his career in the celluloid world to play tough cowboys of the old west. Or to represent through portraits historical milestones that occurred recently in the United States, as was no more and no less than the election of the first African-American president in over two hundred years of coexistence.


Desmond, who like President Barack Obama, also belongs to the increasingly influential African-American community, intended to pay a heartfelt tribute to this outstanding president and all that he has represented in terms, not only political but above all in the struggle for the conquest of civil rights led by the diversity of minorities that coexist within the North American country.


ART PRODUCT OF HUMAN DUALITY

Based in Dallas where he was born with a malformation in the upper extremities, so that in the end he had to partially amputate his hands. Traumatic fact whose circumstance caused him to develop a special inclination and sensibility for everything that had to do with creative expressions and artistic manifestations.


Intense plastic activity that has allowed him to develop as a subject both in affective and social terms. Designing a whole range of solutions with which already since his training at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he perfected his traditional skills complemented by the help of increasingly digital tools and media, finally focusing on the creation of animation and computer graphics. 


READ IT IN SPANISH: Desmond Blair, America Way LIfe Portraits, un reto creativo personal y tecnologico   


With which Desmond acquired enough skills to embark on his career as a fine artist, which he did upon his return from UTD where he received his MFA degree in Art and Technology with a commendation as a result. Of his invaluable contribution to the substantial improvement of the educational model aimed at the ever-growing group of people with functional diversity.


A story that highlights the personal improvement through the use of technology applied in the field of art, a fact that is not very common. For the techniques related to learning and pictorial work have remained virtually constant, until the solutions provided from the irruption of the digital age, has allowed a creative hatching can be accessible to more and more people, regardless of their profile shows artistic concerns. 



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