Gabriel
Moreno
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gabriel Moreno graduated from the prestigious Facultad de Bellas Artes in Seville in 1998. He was selected as one of the most influential illustrators in the world by renowned Taschen editorial. His work has been featured in leading international publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Squire London, GQ USA, and Rolling Stone. His experience and reach is remarkable as an illustrator in advertising commissioned by iconic brands such as Nike, Rolex, Universal Music, and Coca-Cola. His pieces make striking statements about female beauty through graphic and elegant images.
In Moreno's practice, images and ideas need contrast, and by drawing in black and white he confines his visual language to shadow and light. Conceptual contrasts are furthered by subject matter and aesthetic contradictions, expressed in two levels of reading: pencil lines that show beauty and hide fragility, fear, ephemeron, sensuality, and tattoo lines, coursing through the skin of the figure and revealing what its beauty hides. The obvious eroticism of Moreno’s work is contained by a modesty and delicacy of temperament which infuses the technical and aesthetic elements of his art. He uses multiple artistic mediums and tools such as pencil, ink, marker, water-colour, digital art and sculpture. His art is held in private collections around the world.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My work is born from a hypersensitivity to the beauty of the femme. It responds to a need to calm an obsession, like a civilized Jean-Baptiste Grenouille in the novel Perfume, where my ability to express emotions is directly proportional to my ability to translate them into the skin of the women I draw. Delicacy, strength, sensuality and fragility as values, a woman and a canvas, is my way of understanding the world both sensorially and intellectually. Inspiration along with my tools of work, have created a world of contemporary women, who dwell between roughness and purity, through the spaces within the lines of drawing. Woman - her face, her beauty - is treated superficially throughout the history of humanity, her figure exalted and admired like a porcelain vase.
My creative process begins with simple, easy lines of pencil or pen, or clay modeling, that continuously take shape until they become a female figure. My inspiration and work tools have created a world of urban and contemporary women, living between the roughness of their tattoos and the finesse of their elegant outlines. These lines draw women in black and white, and evolve into colors that cover their skin, conveying sensations that range from seduction to obsession - tattoos that stand out with color amidst white, delicate bodies invoking emptiness.”
"Inspiration along with my tools of work, have created a world of contemporary women, who dwell between roughness and purity, through the spaces within the lines of drawing."
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'Elena II' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Elena II'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Maria II' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Maria II'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Rafa II' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Rafa II'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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Dayez | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
Dayez
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Donkey' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Donkey'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Dirty Pink Beauty II' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Dirty Pink Beauty II'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Paula' | Gabriel Moreno | Drawing
'Paula'
Gabriel Moreno / Drawing
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Iris | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
Iris
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Rafa' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Rafa'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'China' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'China'
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'Isabel' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Isabel'
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'Blaster Queen' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Blaster Queen'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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'Queen's Time Out I - Beer Edition' | Gabriel Moreno | Limited Edition Print
'Queen's Time Out I - Beer Edition'
Gabriel Moreno / Limited Edition Print
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