On the occasion of the 2010 Shanghai Expo, Antonio Galvez is the Catalan Cover artist with "The Wound of the World" dolls.
01/06/2010 - "A doll becomes more than a doll: it takes on a profounder reality – its image imbues it with an air of the phantasmagorical and the dramatic. The unexpected correlations thrown up by one of Gálvez’s photomontages reinvent the visibility of beings and objects. A portrait, for example, with its dramatic chiaroscuro, its violation of gesture and disconcerting framing, places the sitter in a territory which would have previously been unthinkable. His art is both existent but inexplicable..."
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Expo Shanghai 2010
The Artist of Catalan International View
The Wound of the World
Antonio Gálvez's personal site Antonio Gálvez. A. Gálvez is a very particular artist and photographer . Access his biography and know the last news, publications or buy exclusive artistic products of this unique artist and photographer, who has featured important literary and artistic figures: artists, cinema directors, writers and, especially, friends as renowned as Luís Buñuel, Cortázar, Angel Valente, Francis Bacon...Antonio Gálvez expressed his view of the world by photomontage, India ink and gouache in his exhibitions. Samples of his creations are showed in his gallery: collections as erotism, the ten commandments, and the dolls from the Monsters of Paris.
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