Eduardo Capilla (artist)
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Eduardo Capilla (Born: March 15, 1960, Mar de Plata, Argentina) is an artist whose work has been displayed both in several galleries and museums, as well as in public places around the world since 1977 to the present. Alongside his artworks, he has been awarded worldwide for his work as film director in videoclips, short and full-length movies, and as an art director.[1]
Biography[edit]
Eduardo Capilla began his training in the visual arts, ceramic, stained glass and sculpture workshops. He participated in a large number of national and international group shows and had numerous individual exhibitions, as well as various urban installations. For more than 20 years she has worked in cinema and advertising, developing extensive experience in different fields of the industry. He has also worked in video clips, design, theater, concert performances, and architecture.
Artistic Style[edit]
At the beginning of his career he adopted color as an essential component of his work. First with monochromatic pieces he explored the power of sensation. He discarded the expressive resources of chiaroscuro and the halftones in order to address a conceptual and space-anchored conception of painting. His ideas spring from the artist’s intellectual and sensitive interest in the specificity of visual language. This not only led him to dismiss figurative approaches and instead focus on abstraction as a proper grammar for this research, but also it introduced him to the world of volume, relief and medium, that is, installation. “Noción” has become a nomadic life-project where all his interests merge. Delving into formal aspects, the outcome tends to stress the relation between the piece and its immediate context, which has taken his work from indoor shows to open-air exhibitions. By this, Capilla succeeds in transforming these private and formal concerns into a public and collective experience.[1]
Film and Video Projects[edit]
Eduardo Capilla worked on several film projects during the 1980's and through the early 2000's and worked in several roles. These roles included art direction, production, writing as well as serving as an Art Director and Production Designer for notable film projects including Mas Bien starring Gustavo Cerati and the English language film Hostage starring Sam Niell. Capilla as served as the director for the music video "Zoom" by the Argentinean rock band, Soda Stereo.
Capilla also worked on hundreds of commercials in Argentina and abroad, for clients such as Coca Cola, Pepsi, American Express, Diners Club, Visa, Ford, Renault, Philips, Shell, among others, and with the main production companies and advertising agencies. Many of the productions in which he participated have won awards at major festivals such as Cannes, New York and Venice.
Notable Films:[edit]
- Mas Bien (2001) Director
- Historias De Argentina En Vivo (2001) Director
- Hostage (1992) Art Director
- Tangos, The Exile of Gardel (1985) Art Department
Credits:[2][edit]
As Director:[edit]
- Gustavo Cerati: Canciones Elegidas 93-04 (2004)
- Mas Bien (2001) Also served as Executive Producer and Writer
- Historias De Argentina En Vivo (2001)
- Gustavo Cerati: Engana
- Soda Stereo: Zoom (1995)
As Art Director[edit]
- 1000 Boomerangs (1995)
- Hostage (1992)
As Production / Set Designer[edit]
- Lonely in America (1990)
- Tangos, The Exile of Gardel (1985)
Mas Bien (Film) (Also known as + Bien)[edit]
The musician Gustavo Cerati, Ruth Infarinato - MTV hostess, in her film debut -, Damián de Santo and the Japanese Atsushi Mizukawa, star in "Mas Bien", Eduardo Capilla's first feature film, scripted and directed by Eduardo Capilla. The feature film revolves around three doctor friends and a woman who always does what she thinks she wants, the character through whom the story is told.
Produced independently, the film was made combining high-definition digital video and film (all the material was later converted to 35 mm for the theatrical release), a technique that allowed a broader exploration of the possibilities of post-production.
Eduardo Capilla states given his experience in the field of visual arts, who also produced and directed videos, clips (of Soda Stereo, John Laurie, and Cerati, among others), was in charge of the staging of Cerati's concerts and presented his work in various exhibitions.
He featured an exhibition four years prior and had written on a wall “Mas Bien” which is the smallest text to say something positive. That's where the title of the film came from.
Capilla’s work in advertising granted him the technical skill for film. "I saw that I could use film as a support for my work and a strange film came out (to qualify it in some way) in the sense that it doesn't pretend illusionism or representation. It's more like a painting on porcelain, where things are inscribed (as desires or concepts), but not with the intention that viewers believe that as reality."
As for the cast of "Mas Bien", its director Eduardo Capilla produced the project with his close friends who happened to be famous. But any debutant director, with very little money, gets together with friends and family to make his first film. That's why Gustavo and Ruth collaborated. But he also chose them because he admired them as artists given their ebullient creativity.
Atsushi Mizukawa, an Argentinean son of Japanese and a specialist in the films of Akira Kurosawa, came to the character of Ramiro with no experience as an actor. "His role is that of a guy abandoned by his girlfriend, and he's kind of lost. When Eduardo Capilla was looking for a performer for this role, he chose someone who was not an actor but a very good person. Because for a good project, I wanted good people.[3]
Art Career[edit]
Eduardo Capilla works with oil and knows how to take advantage of the shine and the dense, pasty texture of the material, which allows him to play with volume and leave the agile stroke of his brush engraved on the canvas. And the brushes are what impose an acceleration and a rhythm that has been imprinted on the oily surface of his paintings, to the point that they maintain the appearance of fresh painting. Thus, the speed and freedom of the gesture, together with the sensuality of color and the vibrations of reds and yellows, infuse the works with a contagious dynamism, an energy charged with joy and anxiety.[4]
In 1981, the Modern Art Wing of the Museum of the City of Mar del Plata, Villa Ortiz Basualdo inaugurated with a solo exhibition of Capilla's works. Capilla would go on to collaborate with the establishment of the Municipal Center of Contemporary Art, Villa Victoria Ocampo (1982) Directed by Nicolás Jiménez, the center is often frequented by art critic Jorge Romero Brest.
While based in Buenos Aires in 1983, he created the research project Nocion, which operates under a new modality of comprehension, and creates numerous installations in public parks and other environments. Anonymity and nonprofit work are a radical feature of these works. Another stage of the Notion research project is Ego x Geo, born under the backdrop of contemporary Ikebana, which celebrates several presentations in public spaces, museums, parks, art galleries, and others spaces up until the present.
In 2005, Capilla published his Ego x Geo art book in tandem with live Ikebana art installations which debuted at the MALBA museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
During the last decade, Capilla has participated in dozens of individual and group shows, biennials and cultural events. In 2013 Gallery Dot Fifty One featured his body of work. Most recently, Capilla’s work has been showcased in Miami in fine art fairs such as Context and PINTA during Art Basel Week.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "EDUARDO CAPILLA — DOTFIFTYONE.GALLERY". dotfiftyone.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ↑ "Eduardo Capilla". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ↑ "Joven director debutante". LA NACION (in español). 2001-11-14. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ↑ "Eduardo Capilla, una pintura en movimiento". www.ambito.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
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