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Artist’s statement
My work is about what happens when someone
does something to somebody or something happens to someone
but sometimes someone is simply doing something or thinking
something else. I like to create a situation between
creatures that look like people or animals but do not have
to be either. They simply exist to demonstrate a situation
or a state of mind.
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Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde’s video work is groundbreaking and
refreshingly different. Not unlike William Kentridge’s work
it is based on the artists own accomplished drawings, which
are brought to life with the camera. This is, however, where
comparisons end. Animation is a rare and quite new form
within the arts, particularly when it is derived from
classical drawing. The soundtrack is without dialogue, so
the narrative unfolds largely visually.
Acevedo’s distinctive figures tell the artist’s own parables
of society and the human condition. Pre-historia, a 30
minute film made from a storyboard of quick drawings on
paper is filmed in a raw style, revealing the tape-marks
where the paper is held in place. As a conceptual device it
functions to expose the creative process and it also serves
to remove the viewer one step from the experience of the
unfolding narrative.
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