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king deer
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The dancing germs
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Biography: Hi, I'm Nacho Barrales, aka Jack Thomas, the "pipe" or Nachob. I started to draw with pencil when I was little, usually only eagles and raptors, and every Christmas I gave my family some very childish comic drawings, which expressed the stories that passed by, but this is not the origin of my "work", way, I was not a "prodigy" child, if once I made a beautiful canvas with oil, nothing else, like many other children, But it was from one of those telvisive nights, in my adolescence, when I still They gave good programs on la2 of Spanish television generally, when Picasso's "guernica" or some "basquiat" came out, I was impressed, I had not seen in my life "a work of art" if I was a great lover of nature but nothing more When I saw that rectangle, in this case hanging in a museum, it struck me. Later with my mother we went to Paris, and if I still remember those primary colors of some Lichstentein, Pompidou Museum, I repeated a view of the Pompidou in this case with the institute travel end of courses, and I no longer know how he came back with a little come home, the cry of Edward Munch (my passion for great painters was sensed) .. nothing more, I studied mixed sciences with the intention of being a physiotherapist, (because I played basketball in a federated team and I liked to know the human body Tb) ,, but the selectivity was not quite good. That following year he entered the Faculty of Psychology (UAB) ,,, at the same time he entered a photography academy ... Shortly after a class in social psychology where they taught us the psychological social expressions of Zimbardo, with some "cigarette "in hand (Baudelaire smoked cigarettes rather), I left the faculty to continue my studies in photography, composition, developing, etc., I like it, yes, I am one of the most creative students in the class ... I combine that same year a Massana de Barcelona serigraphy school workshop (but scratching the copper plate was not my thing ... mine was thicker, at that time I already knew Keith Haring, and basically tried to follow that aesthetic without copying myself with my Chinese ink edding. I had k compajinar my studies with jobs, casual jobs in factories, gas stations etc, doing the worst of the worst, but in that year we were called to work in a television company but in Holland,, ea! There quickly k point me, I had never been there, I did not even know Van Gogh maybe yes, but it was a clear cultural "xoke", On weekends we went down to the capital, Amsterdam; and there, among the flowers of evil, I discovered other "artificial paradises", which "confirmed" for me the "doubts" I had about those "abstract" states of mind. After that "trip", I had in my hands a total feeling of "freedom", I also left the photography school, also the material was very expensive.
I left a family home, we rented a large house (with a pool and everything, empty jj) in a neighborhood near my city, and there I started with the colors and a more "action painting" attitude, because I had more space .. .I got an exhibition, in a social headquarters, town hall ... but nothing important ,,, weekends in Barcelona with my portfolio, giving away or giving for four guys some of my pieces in cardboard and edding ... a year, I return to "my" holland ,,, Land of "liberties" a more advanced country of course of the k we live, with the "eagerness" to show my work by Akel then, It was there, when it began to capture the rejection of society, the glances of revulsion towards me, my work ,,, many of admiration tb, but he told me ..: people go to the museum, admire the work, money is spent on entry, and here are my paintings and they are not even capable of give me a florin, a gesture? ,, I began to realize how hard it would be for me, to be able to make a living from my art ... I go, and I continue to paint, absorbing every hint of art, museums, magazines, libraries, I begin to know, Basquiat's work, COBRA movement, abstract expressionism, looked, dubbufet, art.brut, etc etc. I left the studies completely, I believed that I could achieve it by my methods ,,, I continued working in factories, in the most "beat" style (beat generation) leaving jobs, I was going to wander traveling like the footsteps of a stunned terrible enfant, impatient for embrace beauty, my way plamaba, I tried to capture on my cardboard and some canvas already ,,, I did not even know how to paint a face, but I knew that I would get, that I HAD my line, the texture! .... (I coveted the Netherlands again, (leiden the city of the young rembrant ,,, Norwich, London (uk), Berlin later ,, always with "good" music on my then walkman ,, (soundgarden, david bowie, cocteau twins, blur, the planets , joy division, nick cave and the bad seeds, belle and sebastian, etc ,,,). I never stayed in the cities I rambled, maybe I was a coward, I returned to "my" land, it has not given me anything, only "wars" to show my paintings, but there I kept on, changing my home, from moving to moving, traveling within the country tb (Cordoba, Jaen, Ciudad Real, Leon, Logroño, Gijon, Benicasim, Santiago de Compostela ..) ... and so I still find myself ... Aunke "decided" or it will be because of my age: The old man knows more by old than the devil (I was born in 1978, I am 40 years old), I returned to my mother's home, returning some love in my house, after so many "hooligans" "holy! I just wanted to get into my questions ... Here, I have a small attic, where I paint, I also do music, and I spend hours in my city, Terrasa, (city of now, I was 19 years of my life in Sant Cugat Valles, town crossing serralda collserola barcelona ,,) ... During all this time of trips, movings, sporadic works ,,, painted, I managed to expose leave my work in some other gallery (baseelemnts bcn) etc, I was also in Barcelona city ​​in a market, on Saturdays, where he sometimes sold, and also painted to order (thank you Vern, for asking me those two canvases, Australia), etc. etc. This is my story, as a person, SELF-TAUGHT, what k entails, more "impediments" to enter any artistic circuit, I know, and I'm still alive, and they are not those eagerness of the 20s to teach my work, now I'm more " locked "in myself, I run away from having my paintings confiscated for exhibiting them in the street, etc etc, (if my relationship with graffiti was poor, I never put myself, some other wall, but it always caused me" fear "The police, etc ,, if I know any other dungeon tb ....) so now I am still here, with little money experimenting again with those altered state of consciousness, learning from my mistakes and if investigating, with the" error "as a" premise "to continue working ..." making mistakes "less as the great Bertold Brecth said. I hope you have understood my history, biography as an "artist", perhaps some people do not understand, but it is like that, a life "on the barricades", for doing and trying to communicate "BEAUTY" after all.
English speaker: Si
Website: https://www.instagram.com/nachobarralesdiaz/?hl=es https://nadieband.bandcamp.com/releases
Participation Date: Jan 30 2019