Discover the contemporary work of Daniel Atilano
My website: daniel-atilano.com
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My theme, or what inspires me, is concordance. It is a question of reciprocity towards myself to the extent that each drawing brings my personal growth into relevance. Through them I educate myself and this is how I have managed to identify habits that prevented me from grasping myself in a more transparent way. Habits that hinder, habits that repress and whose good intentions do not correspond to those of my body, to which my actions seek to correspond. The echo of my voice bounces back inside me and it is its patience, sympathy, and honesty that guide me when I draw. In technical terms, it is about being more comfortable in my gestures. Perhaps this is how an author or artist shapes his style?
The more I correspond to myself, the more transparent I will be to the world. To the extent that I cultivate my visual dialogue, I give it soil for my voice to grow, the voice with which I want to speak and with which I want to be heard. Such adequacy could be confused with a purpose; However, I do not draw in order to achieve something. Like a snake that bites its tail, I will continue to draw, because the moment will never come when one of my drawings will seize me definitively. It is a question of a training that claims my presence here and now in everything I do.
I am Daniel Atilano and I come from Mexico City where I graduated as a computer engineer. Instead of only aiming at engineering and in order not to leave other human dimensions unexplored, I decided to go to Paris to continue my studies in philosophy. In Mexico City, I followed both disciplines in parallel. Here, however, by presenting myself as an artist I highlight a very fundamental aspect for me, knowing that I have been drawing since I was very young. All the notebooks dedicated to my academic training with scribbles on the sides and in the corners are witnesses to it. Fortunately, I have been drawing on a whole sheet of paper for a long time. It is only now that I claim drawing as a constitutive form of my daily life.
