My Eden.

For the volume 7 issue 4 (spring-summer 2012) of the british fashion and art magazine Tank, I 've worked both as a model and artist to illustrate the pictures taken by photographer Pani Paul. The shoot was based in the textures found to be a main subject in most of the collections of the season. Simple photos with white background let me accompany and highlight the different textured pieces in a very soft and dreamy motive (always being loyal to the designer's piece). Here are the results:

Below are some pictures of the making off (which was quite hard cause by that time i was always on a plane going from hotel to hotel, from shooting to shooting).

Between London, Paris and Buenos Aires, I have managed to create always a space used as an atelier. The atmosphere has always been so important to me to get inspiration. I've got this obsession about being in a harmonious space. And I believe in the importance of how the objects are displayed, because that changes our humor.

Atelier Rrose Selavy, Paris. 11/2011

I cut the picture and place it on the white paper to start designing the background for each shot.

Watercolors and acrylics at a dining table in London. 11/2011

Finally and more comfortable, at my own atelier in Buenos Aires. 12/2011

http://tankmagazine.com/issue-55/fronting/pleasure-of-texture

Hope you liked it! More to come soon...

In the search of the art of "unblocking"

Frieze Art Fair

October the 15th.

Regent Park, London, UK

Wow, it's been long time since last post. Every time I tried to write about something new, I stopped my intentions as thought it wouldn't be good enough. I consider myself a perfeccionist and over exigent, which only blocks my willings to update you with my stuff and things i've seen recently.

On the last few months I've been fighting against myself; against this part of my brain that wouldn't let me simply express without fears.

I always say that the most difficult task for an artist is to go back to that kid we once were who didn't have a filter already of what to show and say or what not to. What happens next to that kid is ACADEMICISM. He's grabbed into the society and is prohibited with certain things. He doesn't have a "no" until he's abstracted with the mass to what is consider proper behavior. He's taught to draw first and then paint. He's taught which are the geometric forms; that the sun is yellow and the sea is blue; which is the skin color and which the shape of the moon.

Back to what concerns me today: it's been long since I hadn't had a free day and today I allowed me to stay at home (maybe because of my throat ache). I've decided to let my snobbish side weaken a bit.

It's been a week and 2 days since I arrived at London. I spent my first day walking around The Frieze Art Fair and found it so inspiring that I had to return on the next day.

Although it was huge and crowded I managed to pick my own selection to which i played being an art collector and able to buy them.

These are my highlights (sorry for not putting the name of the artist in most of them):

David Hockney

Georges Condo

Jim Lambie

Elizabeth Peyton

Long, isn't it? So I'll better go back to work and start saving for next year's Frieze...

As I say to everyone since the economical crisis that's going on around the world, art is the nowadays best investment. You just need to have the right eye to catch upcoming talents.

While a fashion victim spends her salary on a Chanel bag from ss 2012 collection that is only gonna be the new item for 6 months, an art collector spends it on an original piece of art that's unique and personal and nobody will ever have unless he sells it (and no need to sell as a "second hand" item for less than he bought it).

Welcome to the Art Market new era!

Smart & Chic: the Argentinean version

Harper's Bazaar Argentina is out!!!

photo: Pato Battellini

styling: Jose Bugallo

It's been one of my favorites magazines since before I even started modeling: it's simple, chic, elegant, smart and precise. It's not one of those fashion magazines that create super complicated stories for a selective snob public; like those who follow what argentinean writer Borges once said "the books are for those who know how to read books". Bazaar makes it simple and accessible to every kind of woman at every age. Not to forget that their covers don't show just a model; the characters in it ought to have something to tell, to show, to their readers. This is why I feel so pleased and stunned for being chosen for the cover of their first issue landed in my own country this month.

Very selective at these characters, they had made a following on my career as well as on my artistic aspirations (the editor in chief is a gallerist herself). So not only I am happy to had been chosen for my way made into fashion, but for something that I've been doing forever, which is art.

Parte l: "la artista"

Durante el mes de Marzo mi agente de Buenos Aires me comentó acerca de este proyecto y de que estarían interesados en hacer la primera tapa conmigo. Al principio era nada más que una editorial de moda con opción de tapa, lo cual ya era un logro para mí.

A mitad del mismo mes llegué a Bs As luego de semanas intensas de desfiles. A lo que fue una editorial de modas se le agregó una entrevista para acompañarla! Los dueños de la Harper's internacional se enteraron de mi faceta artística y propusieron, además, hacer una nota sobre ella para reemplazar 6 páginas vacías que habían estado destinadas a Kate Moss (quien estaría en la tapa inicialmente). Así que se imaginan mi inseguridad sospechosa de que esto no podía ser real; no podía creer que habiendo tantos talentos en la pintura y tanta gente con más experiencia y edad que yo, me hayan dado la oportunidad a mí. Creo que mis padres no me podrán reclamar nada más de ahora en más :)

Llegó el día de hacer el segundo shooting "la artista"; empaqué todas mis pinturas, pinceles, dibujos y demás en una mega valija que habrá pesado más de lo que me llevé la primera vez que viajé a Londres (y eso que habían sido dos de 25 kilos cada una esa vez!). Fue algo único, íntimo, natural y personal, con lo cual seguía pensando que no sería publicado. Es por eso que me llevé una gran sorpresa el 12 de Mayo al despertarme con un llamado de mis agentes Sidney Scott y Mora Baldo desde Buenos Aires.

Entre mails amigables con Ana Torrejón (directora), Ceci Conde (redactora), Jose Bugallo (editora de modas) y German Romani (director de arte), el equipo con el que trabajé en este proyecto fue de una calidez, humanidad, respeto y profesionalismo brillante. Siempre estuve tranquila y segura en manos de una revista con una estética súper cuidada y estudiada. Todas las mentes trabajando adentro de ella además de grandes conocedoras de la moda, son grandes pensadoras, creativas y creadoras de tendencias y justifican con fuerza el título de este número: "Moda inteligente".

Gracias a toda la gente que esperó con ansias la salida de la Harper's Bazaar sin saber siquiera de quien estaría en la tapa. Gracias a todos por los comentarios y los posteos. Yo recibí la noticia con mucha alegría y sorpresa; y entusiasmo por esta nueva etapa de la moda en el país a nivel internacional (primera revista argentina en salir en models.com; web gurú del Fashion business http://models.com/Work/harpers-bazaar-argentina-harpers-bazaar-argentina-premier-issue). Una moda hecha para la mujer argentina que es de por sí una mente intelectual y chic.

Es un honor para mí representar el comienzo de esta etapa. Me encantaría estar en mi ciudad para compartirla con todos. Aunque gracias a la tecnología jamás me sentiré incomunicada con ella.

Saludos enormes y espero que disfruten de una revista internacional orientada en nuestro propio país.

Los dejo con la parte ll: "la modelo".

hair: Nacho Lopez Fagalde

make-up: s

tefanía Novillo

Mi mayor éxito, porque como he mencionado anteriormente en este blog, se cumplió mi objetivo: mostrar la persona detrás de la foto.

acrylic on paper (2011, especial para Harper's)

The miner's collection

My first real work; an invitation for the Jose Duran FW 2011 show.

Into the rawnest thoughts

Part of an upcoming editorial

I specially like this shots where i was caught spontaneously while being styled in 20s and listening to Wagner.

Back pics

Photos by Eric Guillemain

Styled by Rene Garza

Ink is the perfect tool for expressing the moment, cause it can't be corrected after. As i said before for me a drawing can only become concrete as a thought after it's been done.

Ink let us be ourselves without inhibitions, let us show the world how we think and feel. We don't want to be corrected by the limits and rules (of in this case anatomy). Be aware of pursuing perfectionism...

The most difficult challenge for an artist, I believe, is loosing yourself and going back to childhood; back to the infant we once were. Children, like primitive artists, had an inborn feel for form which according to Marcus Rothkovich or Rothko should be encouraged to develop freely and without interference from the intellect.

My paintings are born not made

What's your statement? What's your objective? What do you have to say?

The people I paint don’t exist. The only thing that is real is the painting. It’s not like a photograph where there’s another reality that existed at a certain moment in time in the past. The image is only happening right now and this is the only version of it. To me, that’s fascinating. It’s an eternal moment.
--John Currin

Do i have a speech behind my paints? No. I don't want to change the world or people's perception about it. I paint because i enjoy doing it, i let my hand freely slide through the canvas dirty with watercolor and charcoal and for me that is when i reach my extasis; when the figure is being modeled. From my theatre classes to my real performance in life i've always enjoyed the improvisation most of all. So no, i don't have anything to say before my figure's existence; my unconscious is the one willing to express itself using my hand as the physical extension and letting me know after what i've just created on the media.

-- Naomi Preizler

Art is not pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into felling.

--Tolstoi

The important thing about doing my art is that I also live...and the more I bring into myself the more I have a desire and need to translate it into something.

-- Raymond Saunders

The human figure is rhythm come to life, capturing that rhythm is one of life's great joys.

-- Charles Swenson

MY PAINTINGS ARE BORN, NOT MADE

Some highlight paints captured on the street: