Merula is an artist, her works are based on portraits and objects of popular culture taken from the media.
What style do you have as an artist and what projects are you working on?
I am a self-taught artist. I currently work in my atelier, located in the Palermo neighborhood, and I am preparing an exhibition for the end of the year. My style can be framed within POP ART and is characterized by the use of images of popular culture taken from the media, such as advertisements, comics, books, mundane cultural objects and the world of cinema.
Whenever I can, I participate in calls for benefits. In the month of March of this year, I participated in an exhibition that was organized by the NGO.
“Making Lio” where the artists intervened the $5 bills that went out of circulation, to later be auctioned and thus be able to help the people who need it most, betting on educational development. The rest of the year my goal will be to prepare work to send abroad, to an art gallery located in Greece, in the Plaka neighborhood.
How and when did your interest in art arise?
I always liked art. At the age of 15 I started doing art history and decorative art workshops. In 2012 I attended the workshop of the plastic artist “Luis Anun Prof”, with classical training, where we approached different techniques, supports and materials.
What does it mean to you to be an artist in Buenos Aires?
It’s like being an artist anywhere in the world. You have a large number of art spaces where you can show what you do. It is a mega capital with a lot of artistic diversity. And ultimately it is to be able to drink from that source.
Milo Lockett is a person who helped me a lot to develop as an artist. Buenos Aires ¨A power plant that generates art¨.
Which artists have been the biggest influence on your painting?
I don’t feel influenced by anyone in particular, which is the difference from feeling admiration for other artists. I highlight among my “favorites”: Rafael, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Jean Baquiat, Florencio Molina Campos and Jeff Koons.
What is your main motivation as an artist and how would you define your work?
The main motivation of an artist is to articulate their language, I feed on the street art of everyday life and take animated characters that marked my childhood and transport them to the canvas.
The cartoons that I saw every day when I got home from school, or the stories that I read are paramount when it comes to painting, they are of great inspiration.
Do you let yourself be carried away by other people’s criticism?
All criticism is constructive. I take the positive, and the negative I analyze, metamorphose and build. Criticism in general is not for everyone, in a very sensitive environment, where there is a constant battle of egos. If you are permeable, criticism helps you grow.
I am now working on a project to be completed by the end of the year where the theme will be inspired by Greece, where my roots are from.
I invite everyone to join me and to exercise their critical eye.
Say No More.
Contact information:
Instagram: VERY MERU @merula.yordanes
Web: www.merulayordanes.com
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