Aquirax Uno - Poster Design

[Andrew]

[Andrew]

[Andrew]

[Andrew]

There are many beautiful women in your work. Do you draw from models or photographs? Do you have a muse?

No, I don’t use models. If the picture is metaphysical, I tend to let my hands do the drawing, in a state of automatism if you wish. When I want to draw a realistic picture, I refer to photographs. But I try to draw them in such a way that it doesn’t infringe on the copyright of the photographer.

You often depict half-animal, half-human creatures in your work. For example: A horse with a woman’s legs or a woman with cat ears and a cat tail. What does this mean to you? Do you think humans and animals resemble each other in some way?

I don’t really think of these things when I draw, but I suppose they depict women who exist in a space of time that is a little strange, or different to our daily lives.

What animal best represents you?

Something along the lines of a dog who wants to be a cat with a creatural egoism.

What animal do you think best represents a woman?

Generally speaking I think a cat best represents a woman, but there are dog-like women, elephant-like women, and even fox-like women too.

I love the drawings of horses on women’s bodies in Aquirax Cinema. The horses look like they are galloping as the model moves her legs. How did this project come about?

I wanted to make a visual representation of French poet Paul Géraldy’s “Toi Et Moi” (“You And Me”). However, it is impossible to concretely depict the abstract world of poetry. Based on the idea that poetry is the rhetoric of language and thus film is the metaphor of images, I attempted to depict a visual time of a man and woman, a “You and Me” that consists of the everyday and a touch of fantasy, whereby parts of the flesh of the man and woman race through the real and the simulacrum.

What do you enjoy doing when you are not working?

I often find myself working on my days off. I guess “work” for me is not labor, but more like a hobby. Then again, I go and see films on weekdays, so I guess my days lack structure.

More info:www.tcj.com/mollusks-horses-and-nudes-aquirax-uno-in-the-sixties/

[Caitlin]

those posters are incredible!