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Antonio Merinero Madrid, Spain 1966 Graphic Art and Photography Antonio Merinero attended the Academy of Arts and Professions of Madrid.Subsequently he worked several years as a freelance graphic producer.He came to professional and artistic maturity during the 10 years he worked for American and English advertising agencies and branding companies. Travelling is the thread in Merinero's life and work.Extensive travels through his native Spain, Europe, Latin America and Asia are a limitless source of inspiration for his collages. Merinero began composing collages mounted in layers.With these collages Merinero, does not criticise the zeitgeist of a consumerist era, as done by the inventors of Pop art.He uses expired campaigns, iconography, typography and commercial art to create a fictitious nostalgic world. The search for material necessary to express this nostalgic world has lead him to explore other techniques such as, photography, graffiti and screen-printing. Collage Merinero´s collage are best explained arranging them in the following categories: Asian Diary Collage, Religious pinball, New Delhi Screen prints, Street & Tall Stories, Graffiti Collage, Undressing The Box,
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