Alberto Gamon: “For me, “Pinocchio” is the city where the puppet theater is in Abidjan”

¿Qué ha significado o está significando el sealo Nórdica en su vida y en su carrera de artista?

For an illustrator, to be an escritor, it's important, important, to stay in touch with the editor. Con Nórdica Libros teneido estoy both.

¿Qué se le passó por la cabeza cuando le ofrecieron ilustrar 'Las aventuras de Pinocho', libro que presentaba el jueves, con Antigona, en Paraninfo?

Contacted Diego Moreno, editor of Nórdica Libros. This is an example of the trust mentioned earlier, as there are many illustrated editions of this work and the editorial risk is assumed.

¿Tenía una relación especial con este libro, con su mundo de carpintería, de teatro, de pure imaginación?

Yes, this is a story that has always fascinated me. There are two things that really tempted me to illustrate and they were my love for the world of dolls and the city of Florence. When I started working on the project, I knew that dolls appeared in only two of the 36 chapters and that there was no place in the city of Florence, because all the stories take place in small coastal towns in the Toscana region que tuve que replantear mi propuesta.

What did the book mean to Alberto Gamon?

Al libro llegé hace apenas unos años; por lo tanto, mi mirada es adulta. Throughout my childhood, the story of Pinocchio was, as it happened to most people, a story told in a cartoon by Walt Disney, far from what Carlo Collodi told. This is the best option for your family, or allows you to study to accept the author as he is. Collodi talks about poverty and the consequences of lack of education.

“Desde el primero momento decidí desmarcarme de la imagen icónica del Pinocho al que le crece la nariz”

¿Cómo va evolucionando en su cabeza el proyecto: lo concibe de un tirón, hay mucha prueba-error, zozobra?

He worked on the project for more than two years and devoted much of his time to reading essays, articles and documentaries on the subject. My graphic proposal is the result of all this and of course reading Collodi's book. After clarifying what I wanted to say, it cost me the graphic part to find the balance, and my pictures were neither too difficult nor too funny.

Alberto Gamo has a very recognizable, almost incomparable style. Eso no se puede renouncer, ¿qué queria aportar: Animales de Otro Modo, arquitectura, personajes, ambientes?

Todo ilustrador or ilustradora que se se planee poner imágenes a un clásico has the obligation to try to contribute something new that has been illustrated many times. Therefore, it is a key point to decide on the Pinocho icon. Supuesto, eso aparece en el libbro, but solo es una de las quartenta ilustrations que o realizado, y no que tuviera protagonismo como covertera de esta edition. Todo lo que muestro está en el texto, tanto los personajes como las arquitecturas, propias de las locations de tuscanas. Aunque hay un guiño aragonés: para mí el pueblo donde está el theater de títeres es Abizanda.

“Quien visita en un año unas 50 veces el Museo del Prado no puede salí damaged. Y yo tampoco salí”

Llama la atención una aspecto: diría que es su libro más dynamico, donde más se ve el movimiento, la action. ¿Imagino, si está de acuerdo, que eso es deliberado?

Yes, it is intentional. In addition to the fact that my style and stories have improved over the years, Las aventuras de Pinocho is a very moving book, and while it's great to have a unique style, it's important to learn it. to be able to adapt it to the text it describes.

¿Qué es un illustrator en realidad: un lector audaz, alguien intuivo capaz de reescribir graphicamente el libro, un señor con buena mano capaz de sintetizar un mundo?

Illustrator es un lector. You can't lecture, focus on your textbooks. Reinterprets images that are authored by the author or the author.

What is the key to Alberto Gamo's creativity? You can change anytime for free and free…

After thirty years of professional activity, he came to the conclusion that it is not so important to publish many books as to devote the time you think is necessary to each one. Una vez el libro sale a la luz, debe protectse solo. Esa libertad de la que habla la la trajección, la experiencia y por supuesuto, como comentaba before, la confianza de un redactoru.

How do you choose an illustrator? ¿How are you interested in Alberto Gamón?

An illustrator should be a person who can observe and experience the surroundings. Todo lo que me gusta seguro que deja hella en mi trabajo, y me refiero a cualquiera de las artes, pero también las vivencias quotidania. In this case, the year I dedicated myself to visiting the Museo del Prado was greatly influenced by a card my partner gave me that allowed me to enter at any time. You can see the 50th anniversary of the Prado museum. Y yo tampoco salí.

¿Cuánto tiempo ha invertido, qué tecniques, son 40 dibujos, qué propuestas ha hecho con respectable material?

The last eight months of the more than two years he devoted to the project were spent on the realization of the originals. Nothing for rubber. Con esto consigo, de una for orgánica, las texturas, peo también las sombras y las luces. Color is digital; Let me paint different colors.

¿Tiene también la sensation de que ha ido un poco más allá de 'Almas muertas' de Gogol?

It's my most personal project of all the projects he's ever done, and he's also spent more time on it. Also, it's been eight years since I illustrated Almas muertas, so I understand that the result could be more profound.