Dr Alderete came in to my view a year ago, and in all honesty I was blown away by his creative capabilities. He was born in Patagonia (Argentina) and graduated in Visual Communication from the School of Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacionale de la Plata. Alderete has worked for a variety of well known companies across the world and among them are MTV and Nickelodeon.
What I enjoy about this artist is his amazing imagination and colour application. His subject matter is extremely varied, because the variety of commissions is vast, but the works that I am fortunate to have in front of me are generally to do with the surfing culture, Tiki gods and Hot-rods...which is not surprising as his major influences are wrestling, surf music and 50’s Science fiction movies.
His works are vibrant and exciting with well balanced compositions. Often the use of complementary colours could be seen, I imagine this was done to focus viewers attention on particular parts of the composition, though from my point of view sometimes it makes the work less aesthetically appealing due to strong contrasts. In other cases, a limited pallet is being used, with two or three colours being used in tonal variation. What also is extremely apparent, is the use of bold black lines to define the shapes, this doesn’t detract from the image quality but makes object appear static, essentially grounded in place.
http://www.pocko.com/pockopeople/artist/jorge-alderete/
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