BIO
Marcelo Gilabert Barba was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in the Liniers neighborhood, between tangos, drawings and rock and roll. An architect who plays, a musician who designs, a painter who builds, an artist who improvises, a human who creates. The mixture of his passions is governed by integrating these languages. The link with the different materials, textures and spatiality that architecture gave him, added to his training as a self-taught visual artist and his musical background, paint different colors of a world of his own. With diverse techniques, gathering in the manner of Demos, this all-terrain artist uses materials such as various photographs, 2D AND 3D architecture software, latex, asphalt paint, roller pens, charcoal, inks, acrylics, oils and chalk; and builds a digital analog bridge, which is the basis of his work.
His Human @ s series, of more than 100 works, is the result of 5 intense years of work and search for the third space: a non-real or virtual place, the product of the coexistence of analog with digital, of technology with primitive drive, a space in search of resistance to alienation, oppression and bewilderment in the modern world, a space where traces of humanity are filtered and functions as a key to remove the veils of fiction-reality; space that, in short, can con-move.
He currently resides, works and researches in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, in Patagonia Argentina.
AMPHIBIOUS ART
"I call my creation process" amphibian art ", because it is resolved in both digital and analog art. I digitize analog patterns and paint digital patterns. I go from one side to the other, from the virtual to the" real ", virtual demos are intertwined with rustic sketches made with thick strokes and paint stains The image arises from that chaotic mixture of pigments and bits, and shamelessly exposes its nakedness, its amphibious structure made of scraps of images, spots, lines ... doubts, errors, excessive impulses together with moments of fine editing and reflection. This "amphibian" language used from 2016 to the present in my "Humans" Series continues to develop self-replicating with a life of its own, so sorry, to "speak" outside the "framed", the rational loop to obsessively remind me that "I am when I don't think ".
The mixture of analog and digital media is the key to being able to translate the code that appears and strips the fictional component of what we call "reality", but at the same time seeks to convey to the viewer something as real and human as the emotion that connects and closes the process circle."
Marcelo Gilabert Barba