Fab Ciraolo

Fab Ciraolo born in Chile and his pieces combine re-imagined elements of nostalgic popular culture with fantastical sci-fi standards and beautiful space-like atmospheres. Incorporating classic cartoon characters, fairy tale favorites and edgy popular icons, Ciraolo constructs compelling and enchanting artwork that stirs up whimsical feelings for the past while keeping one foot forward. He started to illustrating since he can remember and his background was always around arts. His parents always encouraged him to keep illustrating and advice him to always stay true to what he loves and to what he needs to happy. He uses traditional painting, drawing, acrylics, colour pencils to create his work. He used coffee for painting and he said coffee is good to make cool texture. Cartoons were always in his mind, when he was little he would draw all of them by hand, so one day it just came to him. Drawing He-Man in a flower suit, he just did it and the result was interesting and fun to him. So he keeps digging in all these characters making them more fashionable, always wondering how will they look in cool suits and jackets and tight pants— hipster looks. He wasn't inventing something out of this world, just giving a little twist to things that were in his mind a long time ago. He loves to mix the old with the modern, giving things that already exist a new fresh air, a new vision. He is working in these series, with Frida, Che Guevara and Dalí, it is the result of all these things that are in his mind. This is the main idea of all of these. He mixes them with all the images that are inside his head and it is like an explosion of images that he needs to get out and put them together in one piece.