Illustrator and painter, Gustavo “Ciruelo” Cabral He is considered a visual narrator capable of opening portals to imposing worlds from his illustrative creations. Created the calls PETROPICT – Detailed divers that respect the form and natural relief of the stones to achieve three -dimensional effects – an almost popular sculptural technique in its exhibitions around the planet.
His dragons, fairy and living stones were published in books such as The dragon book, plum, light, The Art of Ciruelo, Magic, The Ciruelo Sketchbook, Fairies and Dragons and Travel Notebook, inter alia. For this reason, it is not surprising that his work has influenced and inspired hundreds of artists of the plastic.
But a very curious fact lived Ciruelo when visiting the malba. In his X account, the Argentine artist published a photograph of the museum in which a painted illustration is detailed, in a picture of one of the pavilions, with a stroke too similar to one of his most prominent drawings. The exposed image belongs to the exhibition “The Deserter of the Devil” of Carrie Bencardino. The Form of the dragon, which occupies the central part of the composition, added the color palette and the rocky background; They simulate Cabral’s works ..
“Visiting the Malba I found an exposed paint that was very similar to a 2005 paint of mine called Dragon Caller“The Fantasy Cards illustrator said Magic: The Gathering and cartoonist of the album the 7th song of Steve Vai. In a split image and shared on social networks, you can see, on the one hand, the Dragon of the Malba along with Ciruelo Cabral posing before the camera, and, on the other, the original painter dragon.
“She responded in my Instagram post: she put something like the childhood idols can become terrible ghosts. People and my fans answer badly. Not now she put that it was a tribute. I do not want this to be negative for her or for the malba,” said plum in a report with the nation.
For his part, Bencardino stressed: “Half of my work is about appropriation of images that belong to visual imaginary of the communities of which I am part of, it is a tribute mode, an explicit influence” and concluded: “At no time was it something in hidden. I do it in the malba. Every time I give a guided tour I speak on plum catalog.
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