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"The first time you face a bad, you're scared, because it's a bit strange all that," says the painter Belén Jaramillo, best known in the world of art under Bln Bike's name.

Over time, those who paint the human figure develop what Bln Bike calls the "look of the artist, in which you begin to see things as geometric figures."

This is the process of depersonalization in which the model is going to be a person to be a collection of figures, lights and shadows. </ P> <p> This is precisely what led to The artist at the survey culminating with the show "(No) Pose".

The exhibition can be seen in More Art Gallery Workshop (October 12 and Lincoln) , where the viewer can also admire a collection of sketches of the artist on his study of the human figure.

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"Things that happen to you They make you build your way of walking, sitting, putting yourself … even moving and stretching, "says the Ecuadorian artist. I started to see that the poses were related to the person. "

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The exhibition will be open until July 20. In his notebook, Bln Bike began exploring the intimacy of their models through the The pages of this notebook are displayed in the gallery.Crudas, with the annotations of the artist, the sketches reveal the process of exploration of the human body.

In a photo and drawing session, six hours a week, and for four months, the painter discovers that "historically, we have in the imagination a cannon" on how women and men should pose. that the artists and the models continue to reproduce.

The challenge was to find the moments when the dummies lost consciousness of the movements of their body and began to act naturally. "I think that I find that the (no) pose when you're relaxed and do not think you're being seen, "he says. [19659011Complementos
In addition to the sketches, the show has three paintings that illustrate the (non) pose of the models. A woman with a problem in the back, a man in a vulnerable moment and a woman who gave birth recently are the subjects of this proposal.

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models were part of the project. The artist he also includes a soundscape with the idea that "your other senses can also experience this experience". In the proposal you can hear the sounds of the painter's studio: "The stripes, the breath of the model", the details.

There is also an approach to photo shoots, which are offered to the public in the installations, through a wall of light with small spectators.

Belén Jaramillo
° For 10 years she directed the human figure workshop at the San Francisco University of Quito (USFQ). "As a little girl, I would make stripes, and I would say to my mother, 'Is it art? Explains Bln Bike, who has not stopped drawing since. He studied graphic design at the Metropolitan Institute of Design and Contemporary Arts at the USFQ. As a muralist, he has painted in several Latin American countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela. His nickname is due to the consonants of his name and his pbadion for cycling.