Behind the Cover: HvH
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reviews_and_ramblingsThe Portuguese artist HvH is probably familiar to you in one form or another from a variety of publications, for example, his comics have been published in the American magazines FRESHMEN & MEN. Patrick Fillion’s house of comics Class Comics have also often provided a platform for this very talented artist.
HvH’s drawings impress with their imaginative style and consistent bizarre visuals that are very distinctive.
The first time I saw his works was inside the Eric Arvin stories collection's Slight Details & Random Events. After that he did all the other covers for Eric Arvin, both old a new version of Subsurdity, and the sequel coming out this September.
In June 2008 Bruno Gmunder released Gone to the Movies by HvH: Never before seen and yet somehow strangely familiar – HvH’s wilful new gay interpretation of more or less famous movie posters is highly entertaining. The artist masterfully plays with our expectations, playfully tweaking the history of cinema a bit, where until now gays have always gotten short shrift. His work is sometimes ironic and irrelevant, occasionally affectionate and amusing and in the end is simply a magnificent homage to cinema!
Amazon: Gone To The Movies
"Ironic, respectful, lovingly and amusing in equal measure" Kontakt
"A lot of the illustrations are surprisingly hot and some are hilarious. [...] flipping through it and laughing at a few posters at a time provides a nice amusement." EDGE Boston
http://hvhexpo.blogspot.com/
More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art
HvH’s drawings impress with their imaginative style and consistent bizarre visuals that are very distinctive.
The first time I saw his works was inside the Eric Arvin stories collection's Slight Details & Random Events. After that he did all the other covers for Eric Arvin, both old a new version of Subsurdity, and the sequel coming out this September.
In June 2008 Bruno Gmunder released Gone to the Movies by HvH: Never before seen and yet somehow strangely familiar – HvH’s wilful new gay interpretation of more or less famous movie posters is highly entertaining. The artist masterfully plays with our expectations, playfully tweaking the history of cinema a bit, where until now gays have always gotten short shrift. His work is sometimes ironic and irrelevant, occasionally affectionate and amusing and in the end is simply a magnificent homage to cinema!
Amazon: Gone To The Movies
"Ironic, respectful, lovingly and amusing in equal measure" Kontakt
"A lot of the illustrations are surprisingly hot and some are hilarious. [...] flipping through it and laughing at a few posters at a time provides a nice amusement." EDGE Boston
http://hvhexpo.blogspot.com/
More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art
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Date: 2009-09-01 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-01 07:13 pm (UTC)(okay, am showing my slash goggles a bit much)
I love your artist profiles. It introduces me to the work of so many interesting people.
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Date: 2009-09-01 07:26 pm (UTC)I love to profile artists, it's always a pleasure to feature beautiful things. I also hope to prove that it's not so hard to have a good cover (in case of cover art). One of the artist I featured was Paul Richmond. He asked me if there was market for good cover artist (painted covers) and I gave him the name of two publishers... he is now working for both of them, and he is doing some wonderful covers.
HvH has a completely different style, but I think that, for some type of book, contemporary for example, his work can be right. Way better probably of some photoshpped covers.
Elisa
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Date: 2009-09-01 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-01 01:23 pm (UTC)