Vigo 1992. He began his education at the University of Fine Arts of Pontevedra (Galicia), to later carry out his final project at the University of Kingston, in London (United Kingdom).
His animation works have been present in exhibitions and film festivals in Spain, Europe, the United States and Latin America. In 2015 his first short film, “Historia Cerebro” (Brain Story), won second place at Novos Valores de Artes Plásticas (New Values of Plastic Arts), and is selected in events such as the S8 International Film Festival of la Coruña.
In 2016 his second short film, “Rueda Cabeza” (Roll Head), receives the award Planeta GZ in the International Film Festival Curtocircuito and achieves presence in the BAFICI, Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires.
In 2018 his last short film, “El Reloj” (The Watch), wins the award for best animated short film in the Cans Festival (Galicia) and is invited to participate in the European Film Festival of Seville, among others.
In 2019 he finishes his fourth short film Joven y Carmen (Young and Carmen) thanks to an artistic fellowship at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome, and is awarded the grant FormARTE of Plastic Arts and Photography to undertake his fifth animated piece in the Spanish College in Paris, at the beginning of 2020.
He is currently working on his new animated project thanks to the participation of Proyecto Ventana, as part of a cultural programme organized by the AECID to promote an artist who lives in Paris (where he is currently residing).
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Since the year 2015 I have dedicated my artistic career to paint and film, focusing my work on animated experimental projects. I am interested in working with the representation of the atmosphere and narration, dealing with autobiographical questions from an ironic and displaced point of view.
Young and Carmen speaks of a character who recently arrived in Rome and who lives a transcendent strange and inconclusive adventure. The subject will serve as a vehicle to capture the spirit of the city in a tale that speaks of the day to day, using a language based on sounds and experimental vision. It is a story that has a special relationship with paint and urban landscape in which I intend to carry out a study about the atmosphere in contemporary Rome.
Working with a brush and the camera, I take on animation projects attempting to situate myself between spontaneous paint and avant-garde film. I am interested in creating tension between the story and the purely pictorial aspects, as I concurrently build the scenes, searching for a poetic sense in the narrative structure, placing special attention on speaking of the contrasts of urban life.
The animation process that I use consists in painting the images on acetate or glass, using the properties of these surfaces to be able to erase and modify the same drawing and hence register all the changes with the camera.
From the beginning my intention was to mix the work of a painter with that of a film maker, applying concepts that are both artistic and spontaneous to animated film, allowing the elements to be drawn one on top of the other and using the trail of the manual work as an expressive element.
To live in Rome is quite unique.
Rome is without a doubt a strange place, confusing and full of changes. I do not know of any other place with such fabulous contrasts, where on Monday the sun may burn temples and on Tuesday you see how litres of water flood the city, elevating the Tiber level by ten metres. The traffic is just as chaotic as the supermarket, if you get lost within its streets, it’s best to take it calmly, to enjoy the walk that this historic and old city offers you, with its indestructible buildings dressed in scaffolds, sculptures painted with graffiti, thousands of fountains that obediently collect, the Londoners dream of their tomatoes and ice-creams.
Ultimately, despite tourism, it is impossible to take the most authentic side of Rome out of Rome, that feeling is transferred to all inhabiting Rome, from San Pedro to the alley ways