My relationship with art — Alex Cabello Leiva
Translation made from my own publication in spanish: @alexcocopro/mi-relacion-con-el-arte
My name is Alex Jesús Cabello Leiva and I am known by the nickname Coco, which motivated me to identify myself as AlexCocoPro in the digital world. Read why I am called coco.
The “Pro” of this identity, which today has gone beyond the digital sphere, is “productions” since I was primarily focused on making audiovisual productions. Many people related it to my good grades in studies, and others, with my characteristics of being multifaceted and transdisciplinary, my special interest in adventure and extreme sports, to describe me as a Pro person.
Defining myself as a Pro can give the perception that I am someone egomaniac, although etymologically, the word pro comes from the vulgar Latin “Prode” (meaning “profit”) and in turn from the common Latin “prodest” (meaning “useful, “is useful”). Therefore, a “pro” person could be interpreted as someone useful, that is, a person who adds value. For the latter, I do not give much importance to the wrong meaning of prodigy or prolix that is often given to the term, nor the negative view it could have on the part of people influenced by the culture of cancellation.We are what we think, say and do.
From an early age, I had a special interest in the arts, especially music and visual arts, which motivated my mother and grandparents to enroll me in music and painting classes to support me. I grew up in Río Caribe, a Caribbean beach town in Venezuela located on the beautiful Paria Peninsula in Sucre state. Adventure and nature have always been part of my being.
Although I am a communications and electronics engineer specialized in project management, a profession that is not usually related to creative thinking, I usually get involved in artistic projects, especially musical and audiovisual projects.
As a musician, I feel especially identified with funk as a musical genre with which I usually express myself, in addition to the fact that I love experimenting with rock , the jazz and Caribbean rhythms like reggae and ska. I lean a lot towards ethnic percussion, plus I play various string instruments such as guitar, Venezuelan cuatro, and bass. Music is an important element that always accompanies me in my creative processes as a stimulant in audiovisual production, photography and painting.
Regarding photography and audiovisual production, an important part of my work is documentary, seeking to communicate reality as well as elements that can be perceived beyond the image through composition and colors.
I have a special affinity with landscapes, elements of nature such as fauna and flora, as well as an incessant search to transmit emotions or cause them through observation and reflection.
Another of my creative ties is in the beauty of the female body, for this reason I have dedicated an important part of my work to nudes, varying the styles that can go from the subtle to the most erotic, avoiding limiting the expressive dynamic and the naturalness of the model to achieve a manifestation in harmony with the essence of the deepest being.
The female nude does not only remain in the photographic and audiovisual, because I have also experimented in illustrating the nude body of women through digital painting and illustration techniques, combining planned ideas with abstract expression of automatic painting and improvisation to somehow show the unconscious and the subconscious. In this way I seek to give another perceptive sense of the forms of the female body. In the same vein, I also use the female body as a canvas, experimenting with the use of fluid color combinations to approximate my digital painting and illustration work with the naked female body.
I believe that our thinking is not linear and I like to express myself in different ways to have different alternatives when aesthetically expressing my concept of the universe.
In my creative tests with illustration, 3d modeling and painting, I have experimented with op art, kinetism, and fluid art in a desire for abstraction, instability, chaos, the illusion of movement and the active participation of the spectator.
To protect many of my physical works and increase their resistance over time, I usually use polyurethane resin, which I obtain by processing anime waste and plastic collected on the shores of polluted beaches to minimize pollution of the seas. These plastics take a long time to degrade and end up breaking down to become microplastics. Small plastic particles enter the food chain after being consumed by fish, which can have serious consequences for the ecosystem and human health.
I usually mint my works, both physical and digital, such as non-fungible tokens (NFT), using of blockchain technology and smart contracts to declare intellectual property, protecting them thanks to the immutability, traceability, transparency and security offered by NFTs.
In this way, I usually include in my physical works a QR code to certify the authenticity and at the same time record the description of the work, the number of existing copies and their collectors. With digital works, the files are stored in the cloud through a decentralized storage system, showing the work in the wallets (digital wallets) of the holders (possessors or collectors).
Follow my work:
- My NFT works: https://bldg.art/AlexCocoPro
- My bio and free NFTs: https://alexcocopro.cent.co/
- website: https://www.alexcocopro.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexcocopro/
- Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/alexcocoprochannel
- Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/alexcocopro
- Rarible: https://rarible.com/alexcocopro
- Exchange Art: https://exchange.art/artists/alexcocopro/nfts
- Objkt: https://objkt.com/profile/tz1c5BbezWuttW1wf5zYVx9h6vi28EcMX3CR
- Fundation app: https://foundation.app/@alexcocopro
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