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Osvaldo Gonzalez

Osvaldo González is a self-taught digital artist, born in Argentina. He discovered his passion for visual arts and illustration when was 17 years old and started to work as a graphic artist in Las Flores, his hometown.

In the late 80′s he moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a graphic designer for a print house for five years. In the 90s, he worked as graphic designer and illustrator for several projects in the music industry, and for companies like MCA, Nems Enterprises, Roadrunner, Triton, BMG, Poligram, Mastertrax, Universal, Tocka Discos, and Word Entertainment.

In 2002, he began to produce his own personal artwork. Working in a melancholic vein, Osvaldo creates complex and emotional scenarios of the human condition and strange dreamlike figurations.

He has a knack for creating dark mysterious stories. His use of layering to create depth, tonal qualities, and aged effects are decisive and work together to produce otherworldly narrative moments with a delicate and detailed sense of atmosphere and transparency. In 2005 he starts to produce Mixed Media. His passion for the ancient is present in his traditional art. He uses acrylics, clay, found objects, to obtain emotional compositions. He currently resides in Miami, Florida, with his wife Mariana and his iguana Morticia.

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Bogdan Zwir

Contrasts and paradoxes were surrounding Bogdan since childhood: a wooden village house without any conveniences that drowned in snow till roof, it was situated next to a modern building of a famous bank and an awl-like TV tower. Winter frosts till -60 and dry summer heat of +40 with sandy air from Lena. House foundations on piles growing from permafrost, and ugly heat pipelines spoiling cold sky. Then St. Petersburg. Mystic inconceivable city built on an absurd spot by a controversial person with the cost of a paradox number of lives and expenses. The city that in absurd time became symbolic, isn’t it a perfect refuge for Bogdan Zwir? Weird author. Who is capable of distracting anybody from idle thoughtlessness, tearing away from a swamp of indifference, evoking craving for self-study and bringing fruitless ideas to life. Showing in the absurd the creative dynamics of magic images, his real fantasy is full of them.

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