Barcelona based artist Guim Tió draws over pre-existing magazine photographs and renders them into something completely different. Tió's style is already evident by his use of highlighting the nose and reducing eyes into expressive-less circles of nothing. Some of the portraits are haunting and portray pretty zombie-like figures although there is an added quirkiness in Tió's work. I enjoy that in some of the illustrations that he has left the markings of the magazine advertisement giving us an insight that these surreal like figures were once beautiful models.
Tió uses oil-pastels to distort the faces of models in advertisements that take up the majority of pages in magazines, posters at the bus stop and massive city billboards that you drive by and scream to us 'IDEAL BEAUTY'. Instead of shredding our self-esteem, these works are fun, abstract and dynamic compared to expressionless fashion advertisements.
More photos after the jump!
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