Gabriel Acevedo-Velarde | the artist
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Gabriel Acevedo Velardes video work is groundbreaking and refreshingly different. Not unlike William Kentridges 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...
Acevedos distinctive figures tell the artists 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...
Video interview
Velarde organizes his work in projects, which are developed of different through several mediums such as drawings, animation, performance or video. the common denominator the will to point towards the ordered and chaos that resolve from destroying this system, as well as narrating fictitious situations...