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eduardo Pla

lives and works in buenos Aires, Argentina

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.eduardopla.com.ar

My mind still vividly projects the image of a laughing gorilla. It was laughing, emerging from between the trees, hanging from the clouds,
spellbinding, like secretly watching behind reed a robust, antique brother somersaulting amid the poppies. The latter all have a trait in common:
guffawing. The animal´s chest resonated with uncontrollable gurgles, they understand the tongue of giraffes and adore playing all day long,
spreading across the massive limbs till the whole body became a drum. whether wearing suits or exhibiting their toes. Now here lies the paradox,
And one association led to another. laughter, I reflected, has got to be the the fact a “line” would never understand. These frisky incorrigibles can
most fertile of phenomena: it swirls across history like an incandescent unravel the Universe.
griot, while we, little airheads, only sneer at its all-encompassing grin, or Take Eduardo Pla, for instance. This remarkable Italo-Argentine artist,
worse, wear tight impermeable coats when it frolics. celebrated for utilizing digital and electronic mediums in order to
Perhaps a bit unfair, so I propose refining the assertion. Walking sullenly is conceive art, creates with the ease of an infant blessed by wizards. Albeit
the overwhelming crowd of “lines”, stern, methodical, in disarray when the equipped with a vast array of studies in animation, three-dimensional
exit sign leads to a crowded hall. And we have the “Undulators”, eternally design, architecture, as well as theatre and film direction, Pla is a notable
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