Clamton
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Clamton | |
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| Born | Claudio Antonio Galleguillos Rodríguez 4 March 1968 La Serena, Chile |
| Died | 6 January 1994 (aged 25) Rancagua, Chile |
| Pen name | Clamton Clamton Clemente Kam Kam Qlamton |
| Occupation | Illustrator, cartoonist, comic book artist, painter, essayist, writer, poet |
| Period | 1986–1994 |
| Genre | Surrealism, Fantastic |
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Claudio Galleguillos (La Serena, March 4, 1968 – Rancagua, January 6, 1994), better known as Clamton, was a Chilean illustrator, cartoonist, comic artist, painter and writer. Clamton is the author of the first comic book published in Chile, his compilation work Historias. Planetas, Cerebros y Átomos (English: Stories. Planets Brains and Atoms), edited in 1990.[1]
Clamton developed an abundant body of work, which is still largely unpublished. This is scattered throughout various graphic, poetic, and sound collaborations, as well as his self-managed letters, drawings, and cassette recordings.[2]
Biography[edit]
Clamton was born in La Serena, where he lived until he was 5 years old. In 1973, he moved with his family to Rancagua, and that same year, he entered to the Instituto Inglés (English Institute), where he completed his primary and secondary education, graduating in 1985.
Adept at drawing, painting and writing from a very young age, he entered the School of Arts at the University of Chile in 1986, with a mention in Engraving. His entrance to the university made him run into a great misunderstanding, both in social conventions and in his artistic work. Clamton dropped out two years later. It was then that he discovered various alternative artistic circuits where he channeled his aesthetic search. Many of these, emerged in Santiago in the last years of the military dictatorship, were also led by underground comic publications such as Matucana, Trauko, and La Preciosa Nativa, where Clamton began sporadically publishing his writings and comics. His graphic style nuanced the stories of universes nested by organs, plants, spines, cells, viruses and fantastic beings in various dreamlike and surreal landscapes.
On June 19, 1990, Clamton published his compilation book: Historias. Planetas, Cerebros y Átomos, also considered the first chilean comic book. The launch took place at the CESOC (Centro de Estudios Sociales) art gallery.[3] Clamton soon consolidated his career as an artist, standing out in his book as a virtous draftsman, aesthetically meticulous, and with a particularly unique style.[4]
Clamton tragically died on January 6, 1994, at the age of twenty-five. He was treated for years with medication after being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1988, and the accidental crossing of these with the alcohol he drank at a family dinner, hours before his death, broken up into a respiratory depression, snatching away his life.[5] Clamton's graphic works have left an intense legacy in Spanish-speaking experimental comics, and are also considered one of the most avant-garde that has been developed in Chile.[6]
Legacy[edit]
In 2014, the filmmaker and documentarian Rodrigo Araya released Trauko, a documentary film originally recorded in 2008 about the homonymous Chilean underground comic zine. In addition to having interviews and anecdotes from cartoonists and scriptwriters who collaborated in Trauko between 1988 and 1991, the film also has a section dedicated solely to Clamton, which shows a cassette recording from the end of 1990, a "carta sónica” (sonic letter), as he called it.
In 2016, the filmmaker Jorge Fernández premiered the documentary Kam Kam, who collects video archives of Clamton at the launch of his book at CESOC, as well as essays and personal letters narrated by him and recorded on cassettes. There is also a recreation of his room, and animations of his drawings.[7][8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Historias. Planetas, Cerebros y Átomos (1st edition). Santiago: Trauko-Fantasía. 1990.
References[edit]
- ↑ Clamton, un "comics" nacional website
- ↑ UNA ISLA EN EL MAR DE LA NADA: CLAMTON, EL CÓMIC Y EL PENSAR VEGETAL website
- ↑ Edited by “Trauko-Fantasia” website
- ↑ [1] website
- ↑ UNA ISLA EN EL MAR DE LA NADA: CLAMTON, EL CÓMIC Y EL PENSAR VEGETAL website
- ↑ Clamton, un dibujante original, virtuoso y olvidado website
- ↑ [2] website
- ↑ [3] website
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