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Marcello Quintanilha: A Brazilian In Barcelona
Posted: October 29, 2015
In Brazil comics are commonly called quadrinhos or ‘little paintings’. Gaze into each panel of the comics of Marcello Quintanilha and you can see why, as they open onto vignettes of his country’s mixed society and mixed-up psyche. Born the son of a former football player and a schoolteacher in 1971 in Niterói, across the Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, Quintanilho grew up in the city’s working-class Barreto neighbourhood. He has never forgotten his “permanent contact with things and values in total decay - shops and factories shutting down, old soccer fields closing, workers’ villages disfigured or abandoned, local festivities emptying year after year; everything that represented a more vital, promising and perhaps happier past seemed to be saying goodbye every day.” Read my new profile and interview and Quintanilha’s new Strip for ArtReview here…
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