About The Artist: Hugo Cataldo Barudi (original) (raw)

2014, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

He is the current President of the Organización de Profesionales del Audiovisual Paraguayo (OPRAP), which could be described as the Paraguayan Director's Guild. He is also the owner of Ficticia, a production company specializing in feature film development, film and TV production services. In this interview we talk about his digital art, painting and drawing, (the Monsters series, the Punto húmedo series, the Frida series and its reception), his last feature-length film on sexual deviance, (Semana capital, 2010), his next feature-length film on innocence in love (La chiperita, 2015), and filmmaking in contemporary Paraguay. This volume of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies features works of art from the Frida series; a series that began as strictly digital variations on the theme of iconic images of Frida Kahlo, yet quickly moved beyond that as art collectors requested prints and later painted versions. Once Cataldo began producing the painted adaptations of these digital originals, demand for the pieces exploded. In this interview Cataldo speaks a little about the sometimes ironic implications of this situation in terms of the market's treatments of pieces qualified as "originals" versus "copies." This interview took place in July 2013. More of Cataldo's selected digital art can be seen here: http://hugocataldo.blogspot.com/