postcard of the 31st Diamond Pepper Festival
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Artist
Biography
Gonzalo Cárcamo (1954) is an illustrator, caricaturist and artist with a long experience in watercolor technique. He has held some painting exhibitions in Brazil, Spain and in his native Chile.
For a long time he worked as a cartoonist, even taking part in small short films for the Walt Disney studios at the HGN.
In 1986 he published his first cartoons in the weekly Pasquim, starting a long journey with publications in major newspapers and magazines in Brazil and abroad, gaining notoriety with his watercolors. Diary "El Pais" (Spain) Apsi (Chile), Istoé, Veja, Carta Capital, Época, Cult, Educação (Brazil) among others.
He also serves as book illustrator for several publishers in Brazil. Writers of national and international literature, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queiroz, have already had publications illustrated by Cárcamo.
In the year 2000 he released his first book as an author: "Living model, still life", by Paulus. A touching story, told only with pictures.
He is currently a collaborator of Folha de S. Paulo and Época magazine and works in his atelier, located in Vila Madalena in São Paulo.
He is also active in the world of animation and premiered in the 2007 edition of Anima Mundi Web the work "O Cãoditado", produced in partnership with Cláudio Rosso in Adobe Flash software and that carries the idea of ??watercolor to portray a puppy that understands a lot of politics.
