Interview with Visual Artist Gabriel Moreno

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To launch our website we have the honor to interview Gabriel moreno, a Spanish professional illustrator graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Sevilla.
He is one of the most successful and known international artists, working for great agencies and publications like Armani, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Vodka-Cruiser, Nike, Fiat and so on!
He always identified himself as an artist, but we can say that his international career took off when he was discovered by the London-based magazine Computer Arts in 2007. He was chosen as one of the year’s 20 new talents of illustration.

Gabriel uses different kinds of styles and techniques to make his artworks. From digital illustrating, to drawing to painting with watercolor... he combines every medium with every other thinkable medium. He is playful and clearly has a lot of fantasy. According to us his biggest strength is being creative not only in the result of the image, but also in the way he builds up his art.

His personal work consist mostly of a Psychedelic background highlighting and contouring sensuous multi-layered female figures. His style can be described as playful dreamlike portraits with high contrast colors. Wonder is a big central element, because within the artworks of Gabriel there is just so much to discover. It's surprising time and time again if you take a look at the same work, you notice something new. The details of the drawings, it's allmost like the thoughts of these women are written on their body's, and you can feel the stream of emotions flowing through when you look at them.



(right) An Example of his Fiat publication
(middle) A personal work in the middle 
(left) An article in Illustration Now! shows his career is doing well.

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INTERVIEW WITH GABRIEL MORENO

pARTs:: Dear Gabriel, thank you for joining us for this interview! My very first question to you: when did you decided to make art your profession?
Gabriel Moreno: "It has not been a decision, it has always been inside of me. I remember myself at school drawing on the tables…"  

pARTs:: You were selected by London-based magazine ‘Computer Arts’ as one of the year’s 20 new talents of illustration in 2007. Could you say this was the beginning of your professional career as an artist?
Gabriel Moreno: "I am not sure that I can say it was the beginning, but it was a huge impulse, and I am very grateful for it."

pARTs:: You seem to combine the business side of art fluently with the creative side. Could you tell us something more about this aspect of your work?
Gabriel Moreno: "There is just one difference between my work for advertisement and my personal artistic work: the freedom of choosing what I draw. But the style it’s exactly the same."

pARTs:: The last few years you are successfully developing your personal line of art centered around the beauty of women. What does this character means to you?
Gabriel Moreno: "I have to say it is the female body in rhythm with its gestures, the curvature of their necks, their mouths. I simply enjoy looking at a woman and drawing her. From that moment she can become as profound or superficial as she turns out to be."

pARTs:: Who or what are you inspired by?
Gabriel Moreno: "I suppose that which inspired me was my own interest in creating which in turn more than likely spurred from my Mother´s talent in the field. It started as a young boy and never stopped developing. Although along the way my teachers tried to inhibit my interests by taking away one of my favorite platforms on which to manifest my drawings. I approach my work with the intention of best representing the subjects to be portrayed but also doing so in accordance with my specific drawing style. I search out the dynamics that most aid in the development of that particular work both for the subject and for what most suits my vision of the finished work."

pARTs:: You are an illustrator, engraver and painter. You use multiple artistic mediums and tools, but what is your favorite?
Gabriel Moreno: "Without doubt: pencil."

pARTs:: Is there a kind of style you would like to learn? Or a kind of material you would like to work with in the future?
Gabriel Moreno: "I am starting using oil painting… it’s amazing, another point of view."

pARTs:: Could you tell us more about what you are working on now? Exhibitions, new projects etc.
Gabriel Moreno: "I am preparing artworks for different international fairs: Hong Kong, London and Singapore. I have a solo exhibition in June in Venice and I am involved in a few advertisement projects. But to be honest, the most exciting for me will be the launch of my first book: it will be published in next spring 2016."

pARTs:: Do you have a favorite project? 
Gabriel Moreno: "I could not tell you… there are many… maybe the cover of Los Angeles Times."
pARTs:: Why?  
Gabriel Moreno: "Because it represented a big change in my career… "
 
pARTs:: What would be your dream project? or with who?
Gabriel Moreno: I would like to start doing sculpture, my own fashion brand… there are many!

pARTs:: what is the goal of your art?
Gabriel Moreno: "That people could feel emotions, like if the figures of my works were real…"

pARTs:: What does being an artist mean to you?
Gabriel Moreno: "Everything... Because it's all I am."

pARTs:: Gabriel, thank you very much for taking the time with us! We are looking forward to see what the first book has become! We can't wait untill it's 2016!

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