OLIVIER TENEDOR Was born in France in 1982. Years later, he obtained his degree in performing arts. In 2009 he arrives in Argentina for the very first time, and inspired by the creative energy of southamerican art, he begin to create his work. Is a self-taught artist with very diverse influences. Admirer of the work of Bosco, like Franรงois Truffaut or Hugo Pratt. Considers as important to exhibit his work in art galleries, as working on the street. Putting his creativity to the reach of all. Without neglecting his characteristic work drawing, he has been dabbling also in engravy and sculpture. He exhibited his work in several galleries in Buenos Aires and Paris. Passionate about travel, he spent three years discovering landscapes, cultures and art in the world, to settle in Buenos Aires after.
COBRINHA Mariana Guerci was born in Rosario, Santa Fe. But lives in Buenos Aires since 2000, when see starts to study grapic design in the University of Buenos Aires. She works as an illustrator and graphic designer, for design studios and game apps in Buenos Aires and London. From this experiences and from her studies, she acquires several technical and expressive tools which she will apply in her art pieces. Since 2005 and under the alias ‘Cobrinha’, she start to give shape to her personal artistic project combining illustration, street art and paint. Now she is developing artistic projects along with galleries, curators and collegues. She also manages her own fanzines editorial, with wich participes and coollaborates in festivals of ilustration and independent editions. Her work has been published in books, magazines, specialized blogs and in compilations of illustration, graffiti, street art and sticker art in the UK, China and Spain. She also has been invited to participate in national and internacional exhibitions. She is constantly getting involved in projects with other artists, gallerists, musicians, vjs, editores and independent writers from all over the world, with the idea of maintaining and promoting the selfmanaged and coollaborative spirit in the creative activity.
FERNANDO POLITO Fernando Polito was born in Buenos Aires in 1975. In 2002 he graduates as a professor of engraving, from the fine art school ‘Carlos Morel’ in the same city. He has participated in several Salons and National and International Competitions, where he obtained important prizes. He has exposed in nine individual exhibitions and over seventy collective ones. Nowadays he is teaching engraving and drawing in the Fine Art School ‘Carlos Morel’ and in the Institute of Artistic Formation ‘Manuel Belgrano’ in Buenos Aires. He also coordinates the engraving and screen print workshop in ECUNHI. He is constantly developing engraving workshops in schools and cultural centers all over the country. He is a member of the Engravers Society in Argentina.
ANDRES AGOSIN (MONK) AndrĂŠs Agosin (AKA Monk) is a Graphic Designer, graduated at the UBA University, Buenos Aires. He was a professor for five years in that same University, in the subject of Design 2, corresponding to Gabriele Professorship. Andres starts to paint and illustrate with more emphasis from 2004 on, after founding Magazine GOOO (Illustration). Then he starts to illustrate more often and to participate more in the world of arts, meeting other artistsand referents, and finding what he liked facing a white sheet of paper. His work has been published by several publishing houses in different countries such as Chile, Brazil, Spain, England and Mexico. He has been lecturer in events as the Latin American meeting of Design, and in the Character design (Palermo University, Argentina), the Pechacucha Night in Konex Cultural Center, Urban Arts (Bs. As., Design, Argentina), and exhibitor in other events such as Trimarchi and International Biennials of Architecture in Argentina, Chile and Italy. Nowadays, he is Art Director and founder of two other publications: Magazine 1:100 (Architecture) and Porco Mag (Illustration).
JUAN SBARAGLIA (PINKUS) Juan Sbaraglia (AKA Pinkus) is an artist and designer, based in Buenos Aires City. His work investigates the synthesis and interaction of forms, geometric abstraction and modular using various techniques such as screen printing, engraving, painting, woodwork, murals, among others.
ANGELA CORTI Angela Corti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1978. She graduated as a graphic designer at the University of Buenos Aires in 2000. Since 2013 she gives collage seminars in various schools of art and illustration around Argentina. She worked as a graphic designer for over 10 years and is co-creator of Dicomo, where she designed and developed objects based in Argentine folk legends that were awarded with the Seal of Good Design 2011 (Arg) and where part of the Latin American Biennial of Design ´12 (BID´12). Since 2010 she works exclusively as an illustrator, surface designer and freelance artist for companies and publications of Argentina and abroad. Her first book on request, was released by Edelvives Arg. In 2014. Her personal artwork is essentially built around her personal life stories and folklore of her country and others who seduces to create her own worlds of reality and fantasy, mainly in the collage technique; which for, in addition to recycled papers, such as old bills and tickets, bought cardbords and other papers, she also uses her own papers that she creates by printing in screen-printing and other techniques, giving her work a unique identity. She has had solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Denmark and has participated in group exhibitions both in various provinces of the country, such as Mexico City and Sydney, Australia. In 2014 was the curator of “ Sudestada Dibujo e Ilustración” with Alejandro Bidegaray , a collective exhibition of 40 Argentinian contemporary artists on drawing and illustration which was then exhibited at Gran Salón de México, Mexico City . In 2014 she has been chosen by Moleskine and Adobe as an illustrator, for the product presentation of “Moleskine Smart Notebook , Creative Cloud Connected” for Europe and the United States. Her work has been featured in publications such as Akademie für Illustration und Design Berlin (Berlin, Germany) , Eight Magazine (Netherlands - Denmark) among others, and has been published in books such as: From Rain to Raindrops - Chronicle Books - USA . 2015 Collage Colective 50/50 Co - Australia 2014 and The Morran Book Project - Sweden 2011
ALEJANDRO PASQUALE On the images of their artworks, Alejandro Pasquale, attempts to show what there is beyond the linearity of the story of the characters portrayed. He composes with the idea of expressing worlds or scenes created by the imagination of the characters. He uses masks covering their faces as a metaphor for the liberation of the imagination; even with the cover of their faces there are no signs of gestures, whether they are angry, smiling or sad, they are just standing in a neutral pose. Suspended at a time which emerges your imagination and transports them to a desired location. It is the environment in which these characters are the result of his imagination, one nature represented in an idealized form and dreamlike atmosphere in some way. The characters portrayed are dressed in classic clothes to generate in the viewer a sense of timeless context. He creates the sketches with the help of images found on the internet or botanical encyclopedia. Once the sketch is closer to the initial idea, he takes it to the final support. In this transference from the sketch to the final support, the composition elements are processed and become a kind of synthesis of the original images, even sometimes completely different. He is not interested at this time to make an accurate representation of the reality of each element, but a juxtaposition where his imagination is present in every moment of the process of the work.
FABRICA DE ESTAMPAS FĂĄbrica de Estampas is a graphic collective managed by Delfina Estrada and Victoria Volpini since 2011. The make publications of original prints and posters using the techniques of etching, woodcut, linoleum and monoprint. Three years ago they set up a printmaking workshop with a gravure press in a local neighborhood of Saavedra where workshops are held, they produce their work and organize fairs. Delfina Estrada studied Fine Arts at the National University Institute of Art (IUNA). Also attended to the painting workshop of Andres Waissman, she specialized in the printmaking workshop of Carlos Scannapiecco and drawing with Eduardo Stupia. Victoria Volpini obtained a degree in visual arts at the Fine Arts National University (IUNA) and art history teacher at the same institution. Se has participated in contemporary art seminars directed by Tomas Espina, Luis Felipe NoĂŠ, Gabriel Baggio and Lara Marmor. Since 2008 she has participated in several collective exhibitions.