Weekend Portfolio: Jorge Opazo a.k.a. Jorge Quien

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Gabriela Schevach. Categorized as Bilingual, Portfolios Tagged with: comics, Jardín Oculto, Jorge Opazo, Jorge Quien, Pan y Arte

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From the artist

I was born in Buenos Aires in 1970. I studied Visual Communication and Arts in Santiago de Chile. I’m a visual artist and a comics illustrator. I’ve always been interested in the connections between these two fields and I try to permanently relate them, to bring them face to face.

In the prologue to my comic book, Humanillo, comic illustrator Carlos Nine referred to the possibilites of images generated in the comic sphere competing with what we usually find in museums and galleries.

Juanele’s invite looked like a good chance to show a selection of comic panels and to see how they function when they’re separated from their original context — the narrative sequence. Nine believes not only in the artistic power of comics as a language, but also in the panel as a basic unit which deserves exhibition and study in its own right. I also believe that and this selection is an attempt to explore that quality in my own work.

Each panel belongs to a different comic. I’ve deliberately chosen horizontal panels with little text for better visualization. Most of them come from my book, Humanillo (Editorial La Pinta, Buenos Aires, 2010), an anthology of comics from the last ten years. The technique is ink on paper.