SANTANDER ART
collective
16 - 20 julio 2016
Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, Avd. del Stadium
39005 Santander
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PARTICIPATING CREATORS
“ILLUSTRATED SELECTIONS”
It is a project that was born from the conflict between gallery art and commercial illustration.
“Selecciones Ilustradas” is the name of the agency of Spanish illustrators from the 60s, 70s and 80s directed by the Catalan publisher Joseph Toutain, who, thanks to his international relations, managed to get some of them to work for the US and be internationally recognized by doing comics like “Vampirella” (José González) or “Conan the Barbarian” (Esteban Maroto).
The project is a tribute to a golden age of Spanish illustration. The objective is to broaden one's own artistic gaze and experiment with the relationship between text and image seeking the transmission of meanings and knowledge.
dry oscar
Catastrophe tinged with irony is a constant in the work of Oscar Seco, war and disasters are present in his work. Disasters change the course of history and have direct influences on art, politics and culture. The artist likes to relate them in a playful, iconoclastic and ironic way with characters he appropriates, from comics, literature, cinema or history itself, for example in the series dedicated to the Spanish civil war, where superheroes or monsters from the Japanese B series mix with characters from our own historical memory.
In more recent series he metaphorizes the very nature of the human being and his relationship with the environment (that is, natural disasters, man's aggression towards nature, oversized animals or,_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ some taken from the European Baroque, or nineteenth-century landscapes )
The work of the Madrid artist draws directly from the cinema of the 60s and 70s, Marvel and DC comics, the poster art of the Russian avant-garde, the world wars, the world of advertising, or de la Fantastic literature with names like Arthur C. Clarke, HG Wells, Bradbury or Ballard, are mixed with science fiction film classics from the 50s to the present day.
Lately, Óscar Seco is working on a series entitled “Little the Nemo in Secoland“, another appropriation of classic landscapes by Dutch and American artists, Thomas Cole, Andres Bierstadt, or Jan Brueguel.