this month we’d like to introduce you to the art of Guilherme Marconi.

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Guilherme Marconi tells about himself:

I’m a mix of cultures and forms, not linears vision of linears themes, a constant “moving metamorphosis”, always changing and experimenting, but not losing the principal influence…. the constructivism, brazilian root…
Guilherme Marconi has born in Nova Friburgo – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil.

The interview:

Please introduce yourself and tell us little bit about your background.
I started to produce some illustration when I was eighteen years old. I did my firsts works, and after that a lot of things happenned. I started to study some process and some aplications, alone, just with the books…

Where are you from? How is the Digital Art scene in your country.
I´m a brazilian guy, and i live in a small and cold city in Rio de Janeiro, a confortable and peaceful place. The brazilian artist scene are in a change process, it is growing in world, like a “Boom”. It is happening because of the work of some wonderful people that I was a fan, like: Eduardo Recife, Adhemas Batista, Carolina Aborrage, Alexandre Braga, and a lot of others. So, all this valorization of brazilian works is good, the brazilian artistic scene has been seen with another eyes, improving the perfomance in our country.

Could you share with us the history behind “Cloning”? What does it mean?
The Cloning idea started when I was seventeen or eighteen years old, and I thought that some health problems could be solved with transplant, so the organ clone would be a good idea. The first version of the site was composed with some LEGO puppets replacing their legs or anothers pieces with each other. The name continued, but the illustatrion and the theme concepts changed a lot. I passed by a pictoric vectorial period, it remained almost a year, but after I thought: ” I don´t want to do just this. I love abstractions, surrealism and constructivism.” And I decided, that from this moment I would produce what I wanted, and I did it until find the work line I have nowadays.

What do you think about Digital Art? What do you love about it?
What I really like in digital art is the infinity probabilities we can produce from it, as in technics aplications, or in publicizing images. The internet make public, and it permit people to spread the idea in a fast and dynamic way, and it is the what enchant me in digital art, the capacity of making art public.

What kind of softwares do you currently use?
I usually use Photoshop and CorelDraw, and the good and old paper and pencil sometimes.

How would you describe your style?
My style has a lot of fluctuation and it is based in my humor. But 90% of my images has some hot collors, like: blue, green, yellow and pink.
Even I´m producing a vectorial illustration or a bitmap composition I
(sometimes) use these collors. The thing that has more influence in my work is the country I live, the typicals costums and the folklore. Brazil define my work style.

Could you tell us the creative process? What inspires you?
My process of creation happens all the time, I´m always wondering that i could produce this or that, all the time new ideas come to my mind, and it is a hard work to organize this ideas to a good work. Some small things inspires me a lot, some situation of the day, a movie, a chat with my girlfriend of friends, the lunch, a topyc related to politician of my country and of course, anothers designers and artists influence me too.

Who are your favourite artists or designers?
My favorite designers are:
Eduardo Recife – http://www.misprintedtype.com
Rogerio Lionzo – http://www.lionzo.comn
Chuck Anderson – http://www.nopattern.com
Alexandre Braga – http://www.abiuro.com
Ademas Batista – http://www.adhemas.com
Kako – http://www.kakofonia.com

And my favorite artists are:
Miró
Kandisky
Goya
Picasso
Romero Brito”

What do you think about Graphola.com?
I think a great idea of Graphole, give the oportunity for new artists, and
better: digital artists. Because in some countries, this digitals artists are still looking for their place in sun and waiting people understand their work. So, I would like to congratulate that fantastic work of Graphola. Congratulations!