From September of the last year until next November 15th Centro Centro has reassembled the work of illustrators who show us their unique perspective of the city of Madrid. This latest installment, which preceded the work of four young illustrators, closes with the work of illustrator Cristina Daura from Barcelona. A 4-page comic that relate the story of a little boy, "Rich Boy", a tyrant bastard that starts the hunt of the man that was spying him from his garden.
The cycle breaks with the usual compilation attitude of comic exhibitions and bets for unpublished materials, exploiting the possibilities of the exhibition space to offer visitors a large visual format that a print edition could hardly give.
During last season, curated by Puño, the proposals of five authors have been exposed showing their personal view of the city and its people, so many different voices as their home: the Valencian artist María Herreros, the veteran comic and self-publisher Davín, Galician analytical Cristóbal Fortúnez, illustrator Cristina Daura from Barcelona and cosmopolitan but born in Leon man orchestra, Javier Arce.
About participants.-
- María Herreros is illustrator and author of comics. Her peculiar style is particularly sensitive to face the spectacle from the intimacy. From the trenches of the fanzine and the graphic novel she has entered into various galleries in Europe in her own right, and she has developed projects for all types of media, from textiles to advertising and portrait.
- Davín, 25 issues of the fanzine Sunday Morning, 22 of Cretino, 4 years enjoying Ultrarradio and 3 monographs: 'Las Fuenlabrápidas', 'Faces and names' and 'El maravilloso mundo de Lucas Mondalindo' are the bulk of my work. Apart from publishing numerous partnerships and participate in lectures, exhibitions, meetings, fairs and various "guirigais" related to the world of comics.
- Cristóbal Fortúnez (Santiago de Compostela, 1980) Illustrator resident in Madrid. Author of the blog Mongolian Fauna and co-author of the Handbook Blackie Books.
- Javier Arce (León, 1981) has worked designing covers for Alpha Decay publishers and illustrating articles for various Dutch publications. Now he is lives in Madrid where he survives posing as an attractive web programmer and writing biographies in third person.
- Cristina Daura lives in Barcelona since 1988. She studied Fine Arts one year but she saw that it was not for her so she switched to illustration at Escola Massana. She has collaborated in different fanzines such as Rojo Putón, Kovra, Colibrí, Ultrarradio or Clift. You can also see her work in magazines like Nurant (Italy), Alba (France), Panenka (Spain), Nobrow (UK) or the book Todas Putas de Dibbuks.
