Artists Describing Their Art:
Mark Charles Fox - Photography has often had an identity problem. Over its nearly 200 years, it has won sometimes grudging and other times enthusiastic cultural acceptance. Today, everyone is a photographer. In my view, what I am is an image manipulator. Image manipulating is a daily yoga, I do it for the intrinsically meditative state it induces. In college, oops too late, at the end of my thesis preparation I realized what I should have been doing all along, studying iconography, how we might share wonder and convey the ineffable. This is part of my motivation and a hoped-for result of these externalized meditations. During the past decade or more, IaEURtmve engaged in image manipulating in a dedicated way and have created thousands of them. Each one starts with a photo I have taken and IaEURtmll begin to imagine transforming its shapes and colors. There are just a few rules for instance, never cut and paste, nor combine source images into one, work with one at a time. My preferences extend to the most spaced-out looking images, but I also do ones that might be called aEURoecontemporarily traditionalaEUR. Earlier on, it was all about experimentation, working an image until ...
Mariano Von Plocki - ABOUT ME I was born in a difficult political and social period of the Argentine Republic, in the year 1969 and the city of CA3rdoba. At that time we lived in a small tourist town 30 km away from the city. I studied primary school in a local school and then, when I finished primary school, already 12 years old, I changed my residence and went to live in Cordoba, where I could continue my secondary studies in a technical school. Thats how I discovered my taste, although as time went by, that taste was not exploited, it remained hidden for a long time. In 1990, in the city of Cordoba, I began to study advertising graphic design and publicity in an academy called Mariano Moreno, this was what opened the doors for me and the possibility of working in it, creatively, and to know the use of typography and advertising ideas, marketing strategy, etc. In 1992, I had the opportunity to visit Germany and after some time, I decided to settle down in Munich to start again there with other types of initiatives, and to study something about the language, its culture and its way of life. I ...