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Fabián Bercic

MENTIONED BY

MENTIONED

Soledad Erdocia
Héctor Medici
Sofía Medici
Diego Alberti
Julián Aznar
Marcos Medici

I was born in Lanús.
I attended a religious primary school and a tech secondary school. I started out studying graphic design at the UBA but didn't finish it.
I sold newspapers, rented sunshades at a pool, worked as an office-boy, made tile roofs, practiced parashooting, drove a rental car, and went to Cuba and Jamaica.
It was only later on that I started painting.

WORKS

Zen garden

Saint George and the Dragon

Alegory of night

Creeper (Rebel angel)

VISION OF ART

Choose a work that represents you, describe it in relation to its format and materiality, its relation with time and space, its style and theme; detail its production process.

The Saint Georges are two pieces alike, or almost. On each one of them, the Saint fights against the Dragon; the body of the mythological animal shapes an "S" that interweaves a "J", forming the character's anagram. When put together, they seem as if mass produced, but actually one is a model for the other one. I finished the first one back in 2006 and began the second one a year later, from [more]

In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?

07. Take a deep breath and relax your mind. (Think of fresh steaming Pancakes to get all other thoughts off your mind.) 08. Be casual, like cookies being offered with coffee, and press play button

In reference to your work and your position in the national and international art fields, what tradition do you recognize yourself in? Who are your contemporary referents? What artists of previous generations are of interest to you?

I recognize myself within the religious, syncretic and regionalism of the Cusquean painting during the Spanish Colonization of Peru. Also in the tradition of book-copying in the scriptoria, the collective written output of a monastery in the Middle Ages. I agree with many of the ideas expressed in the Arts and Crafts movement. I have also been deeply influenced since my childhood from Astroboy, [more]

Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why

Don't know.

What tendencies or groupings from common elements do you see in argentine art of the last ten or fifteen years?

LINKS

www.fabianbercic.com

www.fabianbercic.blogspot.com

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