Aldo Jarillo

 

Aldo Jarillo's illustration (above) has been selected as one of the winners of the COW International Design Festival, Biennial 2020. Aldo's work is powerful and provocative in sketch, mixed media and collage.

Art Late I: Damián Ortega

Last week, I was very lucky to be treated by my friend Colleen, to an 'Art Late' event, in which you toured a selection of the Edinburgh Festival art events. This meant that you  were able to enjoy new exhibitions, art and artists that you would not necessarily have aimed to see.

At the Fruitmarket Gallery we were able to spend time among the purpose made exhibition by Mexican artist Damián Ortega. These works created from clay in its various states was an earthly tribute to the forces of nature with sequences of waves and erosion by rivers represented. The sculptures are a powerful display of geography in motion. His sequential sculptures explain and break down events into an understandable 3D diagrams of the effect of most powerful forces of nature wind, water, earth and fire

Above, Piles of stacked terracotta tiles indicate the earth, they have been ground away when the clay is drier to show the formation of a valley. 

Below are sequences of waves, surging and crashing, made with wet clay.

Damián Ortega was a political cartoonist his comic strips satirizing the darkness of 1980's Mexican politics with humour and shrewd perception. Now his clarity of vision is taken into sculpture he still lays out for us a clear sequence of events, but all is not quite as it seems, Damián is also commenting on the other unseen forces that shape humanity.

Nelly de la Fuente

 This illustration by Mexican artist Nelly de la Fuente is a favourite of mine. Nelly is a recent graduate who has been making illustrations for different genre's and some animations.

Nellas Canellas

Nellas Canellas is a Mexican illustrator living and working in Spain who works in lots of media and uses lots of techniques, I love this.

Erika Kuhn

Erika Kuhn is a moleskin artist, her work can be very dark, but it also has a wonderful delicacy. Erika usually works in black ink with collaged details and tiny areas of intense colour.

Milagros, Papel Steamers

Milagros have these stunningly beautiful Mexican paper cut wedding steamers.

Jamie Jimenez Lupercio

Mexican muralist and artist, Jamie Jimenez Lupercio produces wonderful bright abstract paintings. http://www.picassomio.com/jaime-lupercio.html http://galeriasanmiguel.com/jaimeluppage.aspx