About

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Name: Mario Sánchez Nevado.
Born: 10/07/1985; Premiá de Dalt, Barcelona (Spain). Actually residing in Murcia (Spain).
Contact: hello@aegis-strife.net
Graduated in Fine Arts at the UM (Universidad de Murcia).
Graduated in Humanities at I.E.S. Alquipir (Cehegín, Murcia).
Self-taugh in image composition, video production/post-production & animation, music composition.

Proficiencies:

  • Adobe Phosothop CS3.
  • Adobe Premiére Pro.
  • Adobe Illustrator CS2.
  • Adobe Image Ready CS2.
  • Adobe Audition 3.0.
  • Adobe Dreamweaver.
  • Corel Painter IX.
  • iMovie/Windows Movie Maker.
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Frontpage.
  • S.O. Windows & Macintosh.
  • Traditional medias (oils, acrylics, watercolours, collage, mixed media, etc).
  • Traditional darkroom and digital photography direction and post-processing.
  • Html, CSS, CMS, PhpBB, EPB, Wordpress and basic PHP/MySQL

Press apareances and diverse features in medias | Apariciones en prensa y publicaciones

About me:

My name is Mario Sánchez Nevado. I was born in Premiá de Dalt (Barcelona – Spain) in July 10th 1985.

My first real experiments in digital art started back in 2004, after having been working as a freelancer website designer for 4 years. My illustrations are mainly done with digital tools and photography, although I also work in traditional medias (oil, acrylics, pastels or watercolours). From time to time I work on video as well, from stop-motion animation to video-clips. Other of my passions is music, and apart of a solo project, I am vocalist in a progressive rock/metal band called Tabulsa Rasa.

I am mostly self-taught. I am graduated in Fine Arts (University of Murcia), but honestly I have only learnt in the loneliness of my studio, covered in painting or having days without sleeping with Photoshop, the main software I use for image editing and creation. I prefer to experiment the medias and materials from my own and personal point of view even if it may be wrong, so that way I try to create my own creative and artistic language.

I am mainly attracted by “real” dark art (I don’t mean by that new wave of suicidal-gothic-chicks in sad landscapes with violins and crows) but also by the surreals. In my list of favourite artists you can find  personalities such as Travis Smith, Dave McKean, Dalí or Magritte, but also I love the work of Tomasz Trafial, Misha Gordin, Andrés Serrano, Beksinski, Jan Saudek, H.R. Giger, Sandorfi… But apart from images I get some more inspiration in cinema (specially from David Lynch) or music (theGathering or Anathema), because they have such visual power.

As you can see creativity is my engine, no matter the media or format, to throw out from myself my “bad thoughs” when I create personal stuff, but I also work for others as a freelance designer (Ryusuken, KIO, Autonomy Within, Def Tactical, Ashent…).

My works has been featured in international press, webzine and TV such as Nosólomúsica (Telecinco TV, Spain), Advanced Photoshop Magazine, Albedo One, Third Millenium Magazine, SF Holland Magazine, Revista Arte y Diseño, Phirebrush, DeviantArt, 2Edged Magazine, Ex7, UCE Life Magazine, etc, etc, etc… You can read some interesting interviews online at Phirebrush #46, deviantArt and a chat log from a conference I gave to the users of the #digitalmedia channel back in 2006. You can also find a list of links to diverse interviews and features of my work in diverse medias at the bottom of this page.

I have also done collaborations with other artists such as Victor Murillo, Oana Cambrea or Alba Navas, both in illustration and installation/performance and video.

And last but not least: my works are licensed under a Creative Commons License. I don’t understand the madness about the property of images, which is like a fever nowadays. Images are of the artists, that’s for sure, but dennying its distribution is something counterproductive. I don’t care if my work is shown all over the Internet, in fact, it’s promotion for me and it will happen anyways (credit is always appreciated, though! (: ).

I hope you are feeling comfortable in my little cybernetic home, sit back and enjoy (:

Sobre mí:

¡Hola! Mi nombre es Mario Sánchez Nevado, y nací en julio del 85 en Premiá de Mar (Barcelona).

Mis primeros experimentos con el arte digital comenzaron allá por el 2004, cuando tras años de trabajar como diseñador web freelance, decidí combinar esos conocimientos en herramientas digitales con mi impronta creativa, la cual desarrollaba en medios más tradicionales (pintura, collage, técnicas mixtas…). Por ello actualmente soy ilustrador digital, además de director/editor de vídeo y músico (actualmente soy voz y guitarra de la banda de rock progresivo Tabula Rasa).

Me autodefino como persona autodidacta. A pesar de tener un título de licenciado en Bellas Artes, la mayoría de mis técnicas y manías las he aprendido en la soledad de mi estudio, a base de prueba y error, de experimentar, y de sentirme libre. Es por ello que a veces mis métodos no son los más correctos teóricamente hablando, pero si algo me gusta es cuestionar lo establecido.

Estilísticamente, me gusta el dark art (el de verdad, no esa nueva tendencia de chicas con cuervos y violines al bordes de acantilados) y obviamente, el surrealismo. A pesar de que me comparan mucho con Salvador Dalí, cuyo trabajo admiro, me siento más identificado con otros autores no necesariamente pintores, como David Lynch o Francis Bacon. También tomo muchas de mis fuentes de inspiración de la música, siendo la principal la banda de rock experimental holandesa The Gathering.

Mi trabajo ha aparecido en diversos medios de comunicación a nivel internacional, de los cuales tenéis una lista al final de esta página. Personalmente os recomiendo las entrevistas que hice para Uno de los Nuestros y para Phirebrush.

También he colaborado en obras colectivas con otros artistas, como Victor Murillo, Oana Cambrea o Alba Navas.

Y por último pero no menos importante, hacer especial mención de que mis obras están licenciadas bajo copyleft. Me parece absurdo la histeria colectiva de proteger las obras de arte hasta límites absurdos, cuando su cometido es mostrárselas al mundo. Mis obras pueden distribuirse por toda la red libremente siempre y cuando no sea para fines comerciales. ¡Al fin y al cabo, funcionar de esta manera es publicidad involuntaria para uno mismo!

Espero que estés agusto en mi pequeño hogar cibernético. ¡Gracias por tu visita! (: