Artijulios

Julio Torrecilla

15/10/2005 (Sala 234)

Artijulios arises with small guidelines but without a fixed idea. It is like a game without instructions, with an endless number of elements that gives us a full market, often with absurd objects or small pieces of great beauty. From their combination a gang of sheet metal heart is born. “A spoon flying will always be an airplane”.

Artijulios proposes a new look in front of the universe of everyday objects vomited by the consumer society. In his particular creative process, Julio rescues dolls already obsolete for the system. He strips them naked and, from the guts of his serial doll contraption, reinvents a new being, unique, to give it a new life. In a world full of absurd and useless objects, Julio Torrecilla rediscovers them beautiful or suggestive and turns them into a gang of mechanical, fragile, almost human dolls. 

Julio Torrecilla (Vitoria, 1964) is a multidisciplinary artist and artistic director. Scenographer, sculptor, designer. In recent years he has worked mainly in the world of cinema and advertising. Among his works as an art director stand out: Los Managers, by Fernando Guillén (2005); Obaba, by Montxo Armendáriz (2004); Calentito, by Chus Gutiérrez (2004); Torapia, by Karra Elejalde (2003); Sueños, by Daniel Guzmán (2003); Los novios búlgaros, by Eloy de la Iglesia (2002), Torremolinos 73, by Pablo Berger (2002); El otro lado de la cama, by Emilio Martínez Lázaro (2001); Lena, by Gonzalo Tapia (2000); Mi dulce, by Jesús Mora (2000); Año Mariano, by Karra Elejalde and Fernando Guillén (1999); Suerte, by Ernesto Tellería (1997); Airbag, by Juanma Bajo Ulloa (1996); Pasajes, by Daniel Calparsoro (1995).

On the other hand, he has made advertising campaigns for: Dirección General de Tráfico, Repsol, Telefónica, Cepsa, Campsa, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Tesoro Público, Cruz Roja, Kas, LG and Telecel Portugal among others.