Guillermo De Llera

My name is Guillermo de Llera Blanes and I am a conceptual artist. For the last 20 years I have chosen sound as my main source and channel of expression, but my background is rooted in the visual arts, and my childhood steeped in the written word. To me they are all one and the same. Working the following jobs has taught me to compose and to edify; to conceive with a personalized notion of function, form and content.

I have worked as a programmer, a formula builder, a restorer and conserver, a musician, a painter, a writer, an animator and video editor, a reviser, a translator, a busker, a selector, a builder, a graphic designer, a web designer, an importer, a music teacher, and a composer.

Ultimately I seek to experience artistic expression in as many shapes and forms as possible, and because of that tendency, my track-sheet is somewhat dispersed and touches many different areas. It has always been my goal to shape-shift and to learn by experiencing as many different modes as possible, defining only what "˜felt' real to me as a defining character worth keeping and repeating. But that is my prerogative.

Where are the boundaries that confine my identity as an artist?

Perhaps in only one matter I concede the possibility of being ...

Graphic Arts @ Val do Rio, Oeiras, Portugal
Music @ Hot Club Jazz, Lisbon, Portugal
Tablas with Guru Misha Masud, NYC, USA
African Percussion @ Drummer's Collective, NYC, USA