Marius Black
| Marius Black | |
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Marius Black c. 2014 | |
| Born | Marius Cornelius Arceo Funtilar June 7, 1986 Manila, Philippines |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, comics |
| Notable work | Satanhigh, 2001 , Someone Else's Life, 2001 |
| Movement | Masochism, elepanta & book vandalism, Surrealist |
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Marius Cornelius Arceo Funtilar was born on the 7th of June 1986 in Manila. Marius is a surrealist artist from the Philippines and is known for his artworks depicting skinless human figures depicting love and pain or Masochism. He is also known for the art styles/movements such as Elepanta & Book of Vandalism[1] and Un-Manga (his version of indie comics).
Marius is also an independent comic book artist known as Anonynmous?. He has multiple personalities and uses and conjures different personas to create different themes of stories and artworks for comics and short stories: Lucifer Ulrich (Death Trigger a novel), Satan (Satanhigh[2] comic book series), Angel (CLOWDER[3] comic book series), to name a few.
Marius is also known for human figures with elephant heads which he calls Elepanta. These artworks are usually depicted with merged artworks from known masters like Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper and Gustav Klimt's The Virgin.
His current works are of Book Vandalism, a controversial art style where he draws over photographs and artworks on books, treating any kind of book as a children's coloring book where one can add colors and draw on them, destroying a book page to create something new.
Biography
Early Life
As a child, Marius watched a lot of cartoons and movies because his father owned a movie rental store. Soon he easily became interested in cartoon and movie characters and he noticed he was imitating them through drawing. Growing up, Marius always loved reading comic books (X-men, Spider-Man, The Maxx) and sometimes he lacked the next chapter to an issue. Instead of getting frustrated, he tried his best by making his own comics when he was still in elementary school and letting his classmates read it. Back then, Marius was more interested in making comics than studying lessons from school and had always been drawing in class if the teacher didn’t mind, but mostly they did and his artworks were often confiscated by them. At a young age, Marius already realized he was some kind of an artist. He didn’t know what it meant exactly, but Marius knew what he was doing was some kind of art and that he had fun and loved doing it, and so he never stopped creating anything he imagined.
"The thought of having to create something with my own two hands is amazing! Having to pluck out from my mind whatever it is I imagine and envision is truly divine." -Marius Black
Having multiple personas in his comics and real life, Marius wanted to merge all these names and personalities into one name. He has multiple colors, it seemed, and remembering one point in his life as a kid he always tried mixing different kinds of colors. Whenever he mixed all the colors together it always turned black in the end, hence creating and adapting the name Marius Black.
Education
Primary level: Espiritu Santo Parochial School
Secondary level: Espiritu Santo Parochial School
Tertiary level: University of Santo Tomas Bachelor of Fine Arts 2007
Art Style
Masochism - Skinned human figures in constant pain. This is Marius' take on how he saw the world full of pain and suffering while he was still in college after Leopold von Masoch's novella Venus in Furs. His masochism artworks depicted horses, humans and even Jesus Christ as his main themes in this style. Marius was also greatly inspired by the plastination of human bodies from Body Worlds by Dr. Ghunter von Hagens after seeing it in a TV program. Marius saw the world differently after that, seeing people walking around skinless and expressed it in oil painting and eventually reflecting how he felt at the time, being in love and in pain.
Elepanta - Marius' fascination about elephants and the details and formations of their skin led him to paint Elepantas. He wanted to paint the details on the elephants' trunks so he made different studies and juxtaposed them with other images he found interesting, often those images are from well known masters so that he can adapt to their style and learn how they paint along the way. He enjoyed the process of making studies and painting them and soon he made more and more elephant themed paintings and in some occasions depicting the Hindu deity Ganesha.
Book Vandalism - After college Marius worked at different jobs and some of them were not art related and were starting to kill his creativity. He couldn't paint given his work load and his job couldn't even supply him with enough money to buy the appropriate materials. Frustrated, he decided to make art even without buying any materials. He always had a lot of art books and pens with him and thought of drawing on the book anything he saw in his mind. He had at the time a book about Michelangelo's Sistine chapel, it was complete with pages of the master's sketches and he decided to "finish" or "add" art on to some of his works printed on the book. He thought he might be destroying the book, his book, but he quickly realized there are other books just like what he has. The idea of the book page with his artwork over the same book he can buy again at a book store overwhelmed him. He weighed the idea of having a mass produced book over with what he envisioned and chose the latter. He, anxious at first, took the plunge by vandalizing it. To his surprise, instead of destroying the image, he saw something beautiful: a new form of art calling it Add Art or Book Vandalism.
Life as an artist
Back in high school, Marius sold comic books independently at comic book conventions. He sold Satanhigh[2] and other one shot stories such as Someone Else's Life and the Black Rose. He also cut open his fingertips on comic book conventions and dripped blood on his comics books as a signature.
After high school he participated in a lot of art exhibitions in and out of the school and soon was able to have his artworks known.
Marius is also a visionary at ART FACT (Art Factory) 2012 to present.
He is also surrealist painter / writer at BASTARDOS from 2011.
And also a contributing comic book artist of KOMIKULT. He is one of the co-founders of KOMIKULT which was founded on 19th of February 2012
Other than painting [4], Marius also writes and draws independent comics and short stories and makes art videos [5].
Comic Lists
Here are some of Marius' Indie comics list:
| 2001 | Satanhigh[2] |
| 2001 | Someone Else's Life |
| 2004 | The Black RoseCite error: Invalid parameter in <ref> tag
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| 2005 | EiYa and Luci |
| 2006 | Ketchup Worms |
| 2007 | The Thirst |
| 2007 | The Man from the Planet of the MasochistsCite error: Invalid parameter in <ref> tag
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| 2013 | The Hunger> |
| 2013 | CLOWDER[3] |
One Man Show
His first solo exhibit was entitled The Venus Transit. It was about the last transit of Venus passing by the sun within our lifetime. It symbolized rebirth and new beginnings on June 6, 2012 at Kanto Artist-Run Space at the Collective in Malugay St. Makati City.
Achievements/Awards
CFAD Painting Cum laude batch 2007
One man show Kanto Artist-Run Space
Artworks of Marius Black
Paintings
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Alice Dixon in Wonder Bra
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7 GODS, 7 PRINCESSES, 7 DWARVES - INSERT COIN
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ELEPANTA 02
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The Last Suffer
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The Rebirth of Venus
Thesis
Comics
References
- ↑ Book of Vandalism,Facebook
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Satanhigh,Deviant Art
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 CLOWDER,facebook
- ↑ Anonymousx,Deviant Art
- ↑ Marius Black on Vimeo,Vimeo
External Links
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