#0.9“RAW MEAT”

front: Xavi Montojo Jordan

editor: Guille Chipironetgraphig design: MARYTRINIstudio.comart direction: Alberto Shockphoto direction: Elena San Franciscocomputer services: Rada

team:Berlin: Oscar Von KantLondon: Coco DávezSpain: Sbastian MontelloMexico: Carlota Pastor

We are:

Christos Kapralos (Photo)Carlos Pareja (Photo)

Alberto Shock (Illustration)Xavi Montojo Jordan (Photo)

Juan Carlos Lopez Davis (Paint)Enrique Toribio (Photo)

Colaborations:

was born in Athens in 1984

and studied Interior Design.He started capturing self-portraits

and pics of his family with cheap cameras when he was 15.

The thematology of his pictures include self portraits and street snapshots.

In his early 20’s he collaborated with Kirios Kriton, an architect artist, and 3 years later he started working

in magazines of international circulation such as Vogue Hellas as a living assistant House,

Garden and Life& Style , House by life& Style .

Photographs of his have been hosted in various greek and foreign magazines and blogs such as Dust magazine,

Ticketohell magazine, Honk magazine, graperuitgratefull.com etc.

In 2009 he took place in the first group exhibition during the Going youth festival in Technopolis, Gazi.During the last year he has been living and working in Berlin, Germany and in the end of

September –October 2011 he is preparing to present his second upcoming group exhibition which is to be held in Berlin.

Christos Kapralos

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Flying Kicks define us. We belive it is a symbol of a life-time friendship. We are not the fastest guys on the

block. We just feel something with what we post.

I started studying graphic design in 2006 ELISAVA (Barcelona)I discovered that what really interested me was the world of image,

color, texture and aesthetically beautiful.Later I worked in several design studies, carrying out projects of identity, digital retouching, creation and redesign of corporate images, among other activities. He also worked as a model and image retoucher for

a year for editorial Planeta, national free daily in the DNA.I kept expanding my knowledge and I began a course of art in a studio recording of the terminal (Barce-

lona) and was almost half a year doingrather abstract and contemporary prints. Delighted with the

results and motivated by my instructor encouraged me to Nuria Duran performcareer of Fine Arts at UB (Barcelona) to give my designs a more personal touch and distinctive but isn’t

worked.Prepare an exhibit that ended in January this year in the house

Golferich (Barcelona) where he exhibited paintings, prints and digital artmade during the last 3 years of my life, including work I did

for college.Then I decided to try in the photography field and study for a postgraduate degree in this school IDEP.

(Barcelona)What began as an extension of my design studies have

become my weakness and what I do much more arduouspart of my life.

I am currently doing freelance graphic design projects(Specializing in corporate identity) and photography (specializing in

fashion and advertising).My aspiration is to work only for photography while workingI enjoy it. Also the post with photoshop also fascinates me.

I love seeing the “before and after” photography, I think a key quality retouching a photograph work.

I started studying graphic design in 2006 ELISAVA (Barcelona)I discovered that what really interested me was the world of image,

color, texture and aesthetically beautiful.Later I worked in several design studies, carrying out projects of identity, digital retouching, creation and redesign of corporate images, among other activities. He also worked as a model and image retoucher for

a year for editorial Planeta, national free daily in the DNA.I kept expanding my knowledge and I began a course of art in a studio recording of the terminal (Barce-

lona) and was almost half a year doingrather abstract and contemporary prints. Delighted with the

results and motivated by my instructor encouraged me to Nuria Duran performcareer of Fine Arts at UB (Barcelona) to give my designs a more personal touch and distinctive but isn’t

worked.Prepare an exhibit that ended in January this year in the house

Golferich (Barcelona) where he exhibited paintings, prints and digital artmade during the last 3 years of my life, including work I did

for college.Then I decided to try in the photography field and study for a postgraduate degree in this school IDEP.

(Barcelona)What began as an extension of my design studies have

become my weakness and what I do much more arduouspart of my life.

I am currently doing freelance graphic design projects(Specializing in corporate identity) and photography (specializing in

fashion and advertising).My aspiration is to work only for photography while workingI enjoy it. Also the post with photoshop also fascinates me.

I love seeing the “before and after” photography, I think a key quality retouching a photograph work.

CARLOS PAREJA

for raw images, close, carnal, where the body and matter are noted for their simplicity and restricted use of decorative elements to give more prominence to the attitude. With this minimal staging, his portraits show us the intrinsic

beauty of the body, the action

Xavi Montojo

contained in a glance or a gesture, often introspec-tive air close-ups and direct and honest.

Enlightened is a photographic series where ba-roque and theatrical light emphasizes the physical-

ity of some people in mystical attitude. Sanctify the scene a levitating heart. A heart of organic,

with more buds that remind us of the cyclical continuity of Eastern philosophy that the

idea of punishment and redemptive sacrifice of

the Christian faith.

Credits models: Arnau Gol. Marc Montojo, Jordi Perramon., Oscar, Freddy, Ricardo

Salas, Chifu, Alicia Valles.

Art as the artist’s inner expressionNormally, when I admire a piece of art I feel lost in the search of its meaning. My mind gets usually stuck in the fact that art, and therefore it’s meaning, is

something that easily walks away from its original context and so becomes unknowable.

Leaving behind the idea of an valid and objective approach to art compositions, I embrace that subjectivity – the specific discerning interpretations of any aspect of experiences based on feelings and emotions – is the only way to try to understand the discourse behind a piece of art. That works for me.

As Lev Tolstoj once stated “To define art we must stop seeing her as a means of obtaining pleasure, but consider it as one of the conditions necessary to stay alive. If we see art in such a way we cannot help noticing that it is a method for people to contact each other people use art to explain to each other their fings.”

But, to see Lev’s point clearer, let’s go back in time. 1911. Europe. The search for new languages and artistic ways of expression came across with the emergence of the avant-garde movements. A new relationship between the artist and the viewer was born. Avant-garde artists sought to integrate art with life, an expression of the collective unconscious side of the society they represented. This new kind

of interaction between the viewer and the craft managed to involve the perception and understanding of the composition itself.

The art tendencies that blossomed at that time- Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism, Expressionism, etc.- reflect the historical circumstances that took place when they appeared. Managing to reveal the pessimistic side of life and the existential angst of the individual in the modern industrialized society, in which he fells alienated and

isolated. In the case of the Expressionist movement, through the distortion of reality, is intended to shock the

viewer, reaching its most emotive and mystical feel. The expression is usually understood as a modification of reality to express the more subjective nature of the human being. Giving primacy to the expression of feelings rather tan an objective description of reality, the Expressionists defended a more

personal and intuitive art, dominated by the artist’s inner vision, the expression.

Understood in this way, Expressionism can be extrapolated to any time and geographical space. The context and technology may have evolved, but not the ultimate essence of the human being: his

intuition.And then, I would like to present to you Juan Carlos Lopez Davis’ craft, a young Spanish plastic artist

who just set up his studio in Berlin. Web: http://www.davis.es/index.html

Art as the artist’s inner expressionNormally, when I admire a piece of art I feel lost in the search of its meaning. My mind gets usually stuck in the fact that art, and therefore it’s meaning, is

something that easily walks away from its original context and so becomes unknowable.

Leaving behind the idea of an valid and objective approach to art compositions, I embrace that subjectivity – the specific discerning interpretations of any aspect of experiences based on feelings and emotions – is the only way to try to understand the discourse behind a piece of art. That works for me.

As Lev Tolstoj once stated “To define art we must stop seeing her as a means of obtaining pleasure, but consider it as one of the conditions necessary to stay alive. If we see art in such a way we cannot help noticing that it is a method for people to contact each other people use art to explain to each other their fings.”

But, to see Lev’s point clearer, let’s go back in time. 1911. Europe. The search for new languages and artistic ways of expression came across with the emergence of the avant-garde movements. A new relationship between the artist and the viewer was born. Avant-garde artists sought to integrate art with life, an expression of the collective unconscious side of the society they represented. This new kind

of interaction between the viewer and the craft managed to involve the perception and understanding of the composition itself.

The art tendencies that blossomed at that time- Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism, Expressionism, etc.- reflect the historical circumstances that took place when they appeared. Managing to reveal the pessimistic side of life and the existential angst of the individual in the modern industrialized society, in which he fells alienated and

isolated. In the case of the Expressionist movement, through the distortion of reality, is intended to shock the

viewer, reaching its most emotive and mystical feel. The expression is usually understood as a modification of reality to express the more subjective nature of the human being. Giving primacy to the expression of feelings rather tan an objective description of reality, the Expressionists defended a more

personal and intuitive art, dominated by the artist’s inner vision, the expression.

Understood in this way, Expressionism can be extrapolated to any time and geographical space. The context and technology may have evolved, but not the ultimate essence of the human being: his

intuition.And then, I would like to present to you Juan Carlos Lopez Davis’ craft, a young Spanish plastic artist

who just set up his studio in Berlin.

Enrique Toribio “THE EMOTION OF BEAUTY”

Whenever someone asks me to talk about myself and my pictures, I find it really complicated to be able to get started. But, once I manage to break the crust of ice that sorrounds me, a feeling of exciment invades me. Then, normally I can´t stop rolling.

It is a fact that I have a fixation on communication. I see communication as a driving force of all relationships in theuniverse. That is, the need for communicating with others, being understood by them and to understand them. Moreover, I think that shyness or doubt should not be a brake to stop the neverending flow of communication.

My attraction to photography was a result of theeternal relationship I had with drawing. I guess ‘Fortune’ showed me the way to keep those storytelling methods in time. And, thanks to digital photography and digital photo editing applications, I felt that I could have freedom try out new things.

My passion for photo editing comes after my fixation on human bodies and faces. Editing images as a way to express my personal vision, my interior world, that fills me up with dismay when I conteplate beauty. And when I talk about BEAUTY, I mean real beauty. The one written in caps. The one and only. The one that is beyond our understanding, under our skin. The one that thrills us to the point that we would do whatever is needed to embrace it, to keep it forever, even to photograph it.

I strongly believe that to photograph the human beauty is to transform it into some-thing devine. I feel that beauty is a gift that sets apart the human beings from what is finite. And therefore, it makes them eternal.

In my opinion, beauty behaves like matter. It is not created or destroyed, only trans-formed. And when it is finally in front of you, nobody can take that away. So everyone that wants to be in contact with beauty, has to accept the fact that the only way to comprehend it inner nature is to see it evolving.

So, my quest is to be able to be close enough to all the beauty that, we, the human beings can offer. And, to photograph them in order to tell the world what I felt.

As I stated before, beauty not only inades us through images, but also through emo-tions. And, I believe that those emotions modify what we feel and allow us to see how it truly is inside us.

Madrid, August 16th 2011

Enrique Toribio

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