A B O U T
"I firmly believe in the power of doing it yourself. I believe in the strength of a brush stroke on a wall, because no one else can create that same stroke. I like to provoke feelings and stimulate emotions in people; creating ephemeral scenarios that barely last a day or a few hours is a daily mental exercise."
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Brant boat is also a mirror of recognition, where the sane man would see himself represented in the mad or at least understand that as original power revealing.
The artwork is based on the medieval work of Sebastian Brant, illustrated by Durero. This work speaks about travel to the country of madness called "Narragonia". Crazy and sane traveling in the same boat. The importance of the social criticism is the same 500 years later.
(Bad habits, new fashions, gossip, gambling and betting...)
D R A W I N G S
32 illustrations show a sequence of contemporary actions accompanied by mediaeval texts with harsh criticisms of society. Each illustration was done as a collage using different layers with different transparencies so you can see the image of lower layers.
ILLUSTRATION / "De la inútil riqueza"
ILLUSTRATION / "De las nuevas modas"
T H E E X H I B I T I O N
Initiatives were designed requesting the public to participate in a journey into madness for "Nave de Brant"
Leaving aside the typical moralistic framework, there is a kind of desire to present the world and the human condition as they are, in an exhibition of human weakness itself. We rephrase a medieval work 500 years later from a perspective in which the protagonists of the works are spectators of our own reaction to the harsh review of those medieval texts.
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