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Contact

2011-12-22T09:40:00.000-08:00

alvarobarcala@gmail.com

Proyectos paralelos / Side Projects

2011-12-22T09:39:00.000-08:00

Aparte de dibujar, que es mi principal actividad, y de escribir cuando la ocasión lo requiere, realizo distintos proyectos relacionados con el tema del video y el audio.

En el siguiente link hay muestras de un proyecto conjunto entre Derriere (Carlos G. de Marcos) y yo llamado "Álvaro Barcala y Derriere". Derriere trabaja la música y el audio en general y yo los videos y los conceptos visuales:

http://barcalayderriere.blogspot.com/

En este otro link voy posteando unas canciones infantiles compuestas y ejecutadas generalmente al piano (desafinado). También me encargo de realizar un video para cada una. Próximamente mostraré los textos e ilustraciones que acompañarán a este proyecto: "Canciones Infantiles para un Niño Muerto":

http://cancionesparaunniniomuerto.blogspot.com/

"Terminal Interference in the Canals of the Vision" 50X70cm (19.7 X 27.6")

2011-09-03T13:49:00.000-07:00

RESTRAINT Serie

2011-08-03T17:41:00.000-07:00

PENCIL ON PAPER. 100X70cm each drawing.

The Watch/The Rocket

The Bow/The Music Box

The Skipping Rope/The Mine

Visionary rat

2011-07-23T07:39:00.001-07:00

A sample of my new book of drawings:

PROPHECY BOOK

2011-07-17T20:20:00.000-07:00

I have published SOME FEW SAMPLES of my 55 poems & 55 drawings book "PROPHECY" in the following blog:

http://prophecy-book.blogspot.com/

Dadanoias interview

2011-04-08T05:49:00.000-07:00

Kahlo de Dadanoias has published an interview with me. You can read it here:

Dadanoias Alvaro Barcala interview

Astronomicon - Book

2011-02-19T21:44:00.000-08:00

I have published SOME FEW SAMPLES of my 101 drawings book "Astronomicon" in the following blog:

http://astronomicon-book.blogspot.com/

"Canciones de un Marinero Ahogado"

2011-02-18T11:28:00.000-08:00

I have just published a blog with SOME FEW SAMPLES of the poems and illustrations
of my book "Canciones de un Marinero Ahogado" ("A Drowned Sailor's Songs").

You can see those samples in this link:
http://cancionesdeunmarineroahogado.blogspot.com/

APOCRYPHA Serie

2011-02-16T12:00:00.000-08:00

100x70 cm each piece, pencil and watercolor on paper.

Teresa

Clara

Magdalena

María

Lucía

Esperanza

Francisca

Cristina

"Ancestral Child"

2010-09-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

"Eclipse" Cosmogony Panel

2010-08-25T18:37:00.000-07:00

while in process:

Hermaphrodite King

2010-06-12T12:15:00.000-07:00

Goddess Insect

2010-04-20T17:13:00.000-07:00

God Insect

2010-04-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

"PSYCHE" 60X45cm (18"X24")

2010-03-24T12:08:00.000-07:00

"The Alchemist Smith" 50X70cm

2010-01-02T08:21:00.000-08:00

"Cosmic Child" 50x70

2009-11-26T16:34:00.000-08:00

I took a quick photo of my last drawing "Cosmic Child" 55X70cm

"Mystique et Érotique"

2009-08-19T19:47:00.000-07:00

- inspired by the work of George Bataille -

"Le Doigt" (the finger) 50X70 cm graphite and color pencil on paper

"The Mantis" 50X70 cm

"Initation" 50X70 cm

"A Strange Contortion" 50X70 cm

"Penetration" 50X70 cm

"COSMIC TOYS" EXHIBITION: BERLIN 4th JULY

2009-07-13T05:17:00.000-07:00

Álvaro Misterio - Cosmic Toys
From July 4 until July 27, 2009

Opening: July 4, 2009 at 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.

enblanco is pleased to announce the exhibition „Cosmic Toys“ by Álvaro Misterio.

In his series “Cosmic Toys" (Juguetes Cósmicos) Álvaro Misterio combines two of his ever-prevailing topics: childhood and the world of myth and cosmology.

The eight drawings of the series each show a child or girl enthralled in a play of sorts. Dolls, play bricks, plants and everyday objects found in every household – a pen, a knife, a mirror and lipstick - become part of a sequence of settings, which evoke classical religious rituals such as human sacrifice or spiritual invocation. Rituals, which stem from the time when we first chose to create gods as a means to understand the world which surrounds us.

Children have a way of their own to perceive the world and to make the world make sense to them, believes the artist. From their perspective, playing is not simply a way to imitate something or someone, in the way of creating a fake or a fake world, but a means to interpret and understand reality. A reality, which can be incomprehensible and illogical and forces the individual to look for explanations in his or her own imagination and not only in the often unsatisfying rules, laid out by someone else. Children as such still have to learn societies rules – one of the reasons the artist is so drawn to them.

But while a doll, which is taken apart, for the child can remain a doll – a plaything, a mechanism to investigate - to the onlooker it can become more than an object. We can’t help to associate plastic limbs, modeled on the human body, with precisely this body which is vulnerable to pain and death. So when these limbs get scattered, we find it disquieting.
The boundaries between the human body and its moulded copy seem to blurr even more, when suddenly a doll’s open skull shows a brain, half scattered on the floor, while the actual girl has no eyes but instead the hollow and dead sockets of a doll.

The uncanniness experienced while looking at these drawings though, is not related to any explicitely violent depiction. ‚Violence’ – says Barcala – is in people not in the object or an artwork’. The spectators fulfill the scene as they create their own story around each picture and thus any perceived violence may stem from their imagination alone. While the drawings themselves remain metaphores for the incomprehensible ways in which we try to make sense of an incomprehensible world.

His works have been shown in the last two years in galleries like Knot & Krüger (Berlin), Fastcool (Madrid) and Galerie 21 (Hamburg).

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Decks: DJ Yoann Armand Jacques Kaplan

"COSMIC TOYS" (Juguetes Cósmicos)

2009-07-12T12:10:00.000-07:00

An in process serie of drawings for my project "Mythological Child".

The relationship between children and their toys, the antropomorphic game, is closely related with the magico-religious beliefs of ancient times.
Here there are some samples of this microcosmos:

Color Pencil on Paper. 45X45 cm Each.
From left to right: 1."Amulet" 2."Hainuwele" 3."Ouroboros" 4."Stillborn" 5."Visionary" 6."Sacrifice" 7."Mirror"

FANZINE ILUSTRACIONES

2009-05-25T09:12:00.000-07:00

Álvaro Barcala appears in the "07 ¿QUE LETRA ERES TÚ?" Issue of ILUSTRACIONES FANZINE /Barcelona/

EXHIBITION AT GALLERY 21/ HAMBURG/ MAY 2009

2009-05-23T18:16:00.000-07:00

"HORNED GODS"
Álvaro Barcala serie of drawings

opening: Friday 22 May at 19:00
at Galerie 21 - Vorwerkstift
Vorwerkstraße 21 - 20357 hamburg

"HORNED GODS, my Gods are your Demons"

2009-04-21T19:37:00.000-07:00

Some few extracts from my serie of drawings "HORNED GODS, my gods are your demons":

"THE KNOT/DER KNOTEN/EL NUDO" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE SKY/DER HIMMEL/EL CIELO" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE ANCESTOR/DER AHN/EL ANCESTRO" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE TREE/DER BAUM/EL ÁRBOL" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE PEARL/DIE PERLE/LA PERLA" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE BLACKSMITH/DER SCHMIED/EL HERRERO" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE MULTIPLICATION/DIE MULTIPLIKATION" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE MOON/DER MOND/LA LUNA" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE SECOND BIRTH/DIE ZWEITE GEBURT" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

"THE HERMAPHRODITE/DER HERMAPHRODIT" 50X70cm / 19.7X27.6 inches

Alvaro Barcala at LAM03 EXHIBITION/ MADRID/ MARCH 2009

2009-03-23T06:48:00.001-07:00

Last 12 March the LAM03 EXHIBITION (Lamono Magazine) was celebrated at the gallery Fast Cool, Madrid, in which three works of Alvaro Barcala were included.

Book Illustration Samples

2009-02-17T19:22:00.000-08:00

Besides artwork, here I show you some samples of my work as book illustrator:

all images ©

ICONS

2009-01-09T10:41:00.001-08:00

"THE INVISIBLE FRIEND"

2008-10-26T12:34:00.000-07:00

...exposes the innate predisposition children have for being
communicated with the invisible and with the magico-religious beliefs.
The same predisposition the societies had in Ancient Times.

"Little Cosmos Girl" 100X70 cm

"Edipo" 100X70 cm

ALVARO BARCALA - LAMONO MAG

2008-05-24T23:55:00.001-07:00

I made the cover of Lamono 2008 September Issue.
and inside there is an interview on me by Eva Villazala.

DOPPELGÄNGER

2008-05-24T23:51:00.001-07:00

The Photographer Frank Kalero has made these photos of me for one of his latest series:

Check out his website:
http://www. kalero. net/

or the magazine he directs:
http://www. ojodepez. org

PET CEMETERY

2008-05-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

Some Caricatures I made time ago.

dreamer

Suicide Mom's Capsules

On A Duck

Cupid

Just Married

Hybrid Love

Stillborn

Rayuela

links

2008-05-20T19:16:00.000-07:00

http://prophecy-book.blogspot.com/

http://astronomicon-book.blogspot.com/

http://cancionesdeunmarineroahogado.blogspot.com/

Mi Video-Audio project with Derriere:

http://barcalayderriere.blogspot.com/

My children songs project:

http://cancionesparaunniniomuerto.blogspot.com/

contact

2008-05-20T17:05:00.000-07:00

For any Art profesional enquiry please contact me at:
alvarobarcala@gmail.com

DEAD CAN DANCE

2008-05-20T15:22:00.000-07:00

biography

2008-05-20T13:08:00.000-07:00

Alvaro Barcala has collaborated with magazines like Lamono, Sleaze, DP-Palm, Ojo de pez, Etiqueta Negra and Illustraciones.
His works have been shown in the last two years in galleries like Knot & Krüger (Berlin), Fastcool (Madrid) , Galerie 21 (Hamburg) and Enblanco (Berlin).

OJO DE PEZ

2008-05-20T03:00:00.000-07:00

Guess Illustrator in OJO DE PEZ Nr 13.

ETIQUETA NEGRA

2008-05-20T02:55:00.000-07:00

I have collaborated with an illustration for the JAVIER CALVO's short story "LOS NIÑOS PERDIDOS DE LONDRES"
It has been published in the 2008 May issue of ETIQUETA NEGRA.

DP PALMA

2008-05-20T01:00:00.000-07:00

This is an article by Joan Cabot that appears in the 2008 August Issue of DP-PALMA Magazine