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Adrien Brody sobre “Por qué nunca es demasiado tarde para convertirse en un artista”
By: Alexander Forbes from artsy.net
Traducido al español por: @brodyfansite
En 2002, Adrien Brody se convirtió en la persona más joven que jamás haya ganado un Premio de la Academia al Mejor Actor, a los 29 años. Es un nombre muy conocido por su papel como pianista y compositor polaco Wladyslaw Szpilman en The Pianist de Roman Polanski. Desde entonces ha protagonizado películas como The Darjeeling Limited (2007) de Wes Anderson y The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), el remake de Peter Jackson de King Kong (2005) y Midnight in Paris (2011) de Woody Allen. Pero hace dos años, Brody decidió que era hora de dedicarse a una pasión que había descuidado hacía tiempo: la pintura.
Sucedió por casualidad. Un amigo de Brody, un artista francés, le había prometido pintar una pieza de arte. Después de cuatro años, y un período pasado fuera de tacto, decidieron reunirse finalmente para que el trabajo fuera terminado.
Le construí un lienzo grande, lo medí en la pared”, recuerda Brody. Compré algunos lienzos adicionales en caso de que quisiera hacer algún trabajo adicional y jugar alrededor. Pensé que podría ayudarlo. Y así, mientras él estaba pintando, empecé a pintar algunas cosas también. (El amigo de Brody fue firme en que el actor tenía que continuar.
En Noviembre de 2016, estábamos en Shanghai en el ART021, un mega evento de arte, y veíamos como Brody relataba este regreso a una creatividad inactiva que a menudo había pensado en retomar de nuevo, pero nunca llegó a la independencia.
“La pintura era algo que yo amaba y soñaba con volver un día, pero nunca lo hice. Creo que mucha gente tiene eso: tal vez ellos son talentosos en la guitarra o suelen cantar o solían dibujar “, dijo el actor de 43 años, echando un vistazo a los trabajos que estaba presentando en la feria en una colaboración con La organización sin fines de lucro Teach for China.
Brody había donado una de las piezas -una pintura lacada de un pez, cubierta de goteos de pintura a la Pollock (caridad, que envía a graduados chinos y estadounidenses a enseñar en escuelas rurales de China).
La pintura era algo que Brody inicialmente intentó seguir profesionalmente.
“Yo había aplicado a la escuela de arte y fue rechazado”, relata. Como tantas personas que descuidan o abandonan las pasiones creativas, el joven Brody fue impactado por ser rechazado.
“Es desalentador de alguna manera cuando el establecimiento o maestros critican tu trabajo o descartan tus habilidades. Inevitablemente lo tomé personalmente, especialmente en mi adolescencia. Uno está en una edad joven donde se está soñando pero tú eres naturalmente inseguro. Las ideas y sentido de sí mismo, no están allí. “
La sesión de pintura espontánea del actor llegó en un momento particularmente oportuno.
“He estado trabajando mucho como actor y productor, acabo de estar inmerso en todo eso”, dice. Pero gratificante como era este trabajo, le dejó otro impulso:
“Estaba lleno de deseo de expresarme independientemente. La pintura me permite hacer eso sin la carga de tener un guionista, una conversación sobre un guión para ver qué me conviene más, encontrar un cineasta que me eleve, y tener un editor, productores y el equipo de marketing que al final editan y cambian el trabajo que he hecho y luego se convierte en algo más, pero con mi nombre en él. Eso es lo que hago”
Al igual que cuando perdió 30 libras y cortó lazos con su vida personal en preparación para su papel de músico polaco-judío huyendo de los nazis en El Pianista, Brody ha saltado a su carrera artística con gusto. Y ha sido prolífico.
En Shanghai, durante su presentación el artista comentaba:
Los peces que están sentados reflejan la degradación de nuestro ecosistema y la forma en que nuestras vidas de ritmo rápido y consumidas por la tecnología nos han llevado a descuidar nuestra conciencia espiritual interna.
En anteriores cuerpos de trabajo, Brody ha creado piezas de arte en forma de animales de peluche disfrazados de pandilleros para comentar cómo la degradación de la familia nuclear en contextos urbanos ha contribuido a un perpetuo ciclo de violencia, también ha pintado hamburguesas y hot dogs en un guiño a las formas en que la cultura de la comida rápida refleja una miopía más general cuando se trata de calidad de vida, salud y medio ambiente.
En última instancia, su trabajo es acerca de la auto-realización más de lo que es aclamación pública.
Si alguien lo aprecia o no, está bien, es subjetivo. Pero viene de mí y es maravilloso. El proceso en sí fue tan emocionante y divertido.
Brody atribuye su aventura artística a sus padres.
“Vengo de una familia de artistas”, dice. “Mi madre [Sylvia Plachy] es una fotógrafa, y en un nivel artístico y espiritual ella es realmente una luz guía para mí. Y mi padre es un pintor muy talentoso. “
El padre de Brody comenzó a pintar con seriedad después de retirarse de su trabajo como maestro de escuela pública. El actor recuerda a su padre retirándose al ático de su casa de Queens para pasar tiempo con su caballete y aceites.
“Mi dedicación a una vida de búsqueda de resultados creativos es algo que vino de mis padres. Me nutrieron y me apoyaron haciendo algo que nunca iba a ser fácil. Me han dado el coraje de tomar riesgos de forma creativa y seguir algo sin que exista un objetivo de éxito”.
La intención que Brody aporta a su trabajo es intachable -especialmente la forma en que lo ha organizado para recaudar fondos significativos para las organizaciones benéficas.
“Debo haber superado un millón de dólares en donaciones el año pasado“, dice Brody.
Además de sus contribuciones a Teach for China, ha ayudado a beneficiar iniciativas medioambientales, de investigación AIDs y otras organizaciones juveniles, trabajando con su colega y coleccionista de arte Leonardo DiCaprio, el verano, para la subasta anual de DiCaprio en St. Tropez donó una de sus más importantes obras de arte.
“Estoy emocionado. Tú sabes, todo es parte de un panorama más grande “, dice.
Eso no quiere decir que la actuación la deja un poco de lado para seguir su trabajo artístico, todo no ha venido sin sacrificio.
“Obviamente he puesto un montón de mis ganancias como actor durante dos años para trabajar en lo que hago creativamente y para perseguir una mayor comprensión de mí mismo y un compromiso de guiarme”, dice.
Pero Brody también señala que la apertura emocional y la conciencia interior es más profunda y, que tanto la actuación como la pintura crean y fertilizan a la otra.
Actuar, dice Brody, siempre será lo primero para él.
Soy un actor y estoy destinado a ser actor. Yo ya era un actor cuando fui rechazado de la escuela de arte. Pero con la pintura, revivió un sueño que una vez fue puesto en espera, y también pretendo dar un ejemplo poderoso para otros que pueden estar albergando pasiones creativas insatisfechas.
By: Alexander Forbes from artsy.net
Traducido al español por: @brodyfansite
See more about Adrien Brody’s art work HERE
Adrien Brody on Why It’s Never Too Late to Become an Artist.
Credits: —Alexander Forbes from artsy.net
In 2002, Adrien Brody became the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, at age 29. He’s a household name for that role, as Polish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. And he has since gone on to star in films such as Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong (2005), and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011). But two years ago, Brody decided it was time to devote himself to a passion he had long neglected: painting.
It happened by chance. A friend of Brody’s, a French artist, had promised to paint him a piece. After four years, and a period spent out of touch, they finally settled on a time for the work to be completed.
“I built him a large canvas, measured it for the wall,” recalls Brody.
“And I bought some additional canvases in case he wanted to do some additional work and play around. I thought I might help him. And so while he was painting, I started painting some stuff too.” Brody’s friend was adamant that the actor had to continue.
On November, we’re sitting in Shanghai at ART021 art fair as Brody recounts this return to a dormant creativity he had often thought about picking back up but never got around to independently.
“Painting was something that I loved and dreamt of coming back to one day but never did. I think a lot of people have that: maybe they were talented at guitar or they used to sing or they used to draw,” says the 43-year-old actor, glancing at the works he was presenting at the fair in a collaboration with the nonprofit organization Teach for China.
Brody had donated one of the pieces—a lacquered painting of a fish, covered in drips of paint à la Pollock—to the charity, which sends Chinese and American graduates to teach in schools in rural China. This week, similar work is featured as part of David Benrimon’s booth at Art Miami, as part of Miami Art Week.
Painting was something that Brody initially attempted to pursue professionally.
“I had applied to art school and was rejected,” he recounts. Like so many people who neglect or abandon creative passions, the young Brody was impacted by being turned away.
“It’s discouraging in a way when the establishment or teachers criticize your work or dismiss your abilities. Inevitably you take it personally, especially in your adolescence. You’re at a young age where you are dreaming but you’re naturally insecure. Your ideas and your sense of self, none of those are there.”
The actor’s spontaneous painting session came at a particularly opportune time.
“I had been working a lot as an actor and producer, and had just been really immersed in all that,” he says.
But rewarding as this work was, it left him with another urge: “I was bursting with desire to express myself independently. Painting lets me do that without the burden of having a screenwriter, a conversation about a script to make it suit me a bit more, finding a filmmaker that elevates me, and having an editor, and the producers, and the marketing team change the work that I go into doing and then it becoming something else, yet with my name on it. This is my doing.”
Much like when he famously lost 30 pounds and cut ties with his personal life in preparation for his role as a Polish-Jewish musician fleeing the Nazis in The Pianist, Brody has leapt into his artistic career with gusto. And he has been prolific. In Shanghai, the fish we’re sitting amidst reflect the degradation of our ecosystem and the way in which our fast-paced, technology-consumed lives have led us to neglect our inner spiritual consciousness. In previous bodies of work, Brody has created installations out of stuffed animals dressed up like gangbangers to comment on the how the degradation of the nuclear family in urban contexts has contributed to a perpetual cycle of violence and he’s painted burgers and hot dogs in a nod to the ways fast food culture reflects a more overarching shortsightedness when it comes to quality of life, health, and the environment. Ultimately, his work is about self-fulfillment more than it is public acclaim.
“Whether someone appreciates it or not, it’s fine, it’s subjective. But it’s coming from me. And it’s wonderful. The process in and of itself is so exciting and fun.”
Brody credits his artistic adventurousness to his parents.
“I come from a family of artists,” he says. “My mother [Sylvia Plachy] is a photographer and on an artistic and a spiritual level she’s really a guiding light for me. And my father is a very talented painter.” Brody’s father took up painting in earnest after retiring from his job as a public school teacher.
The actor recalls his dad retreating to the attic of their Queens home to spend time with his easel and oils.
“My dedication to a lifetime of pursuing creative output is something that came from my parents. They nurtured me and approved of me doing something that was never going to be easy. They’ve given me the courage to take risks creatively and pursue something without there being a goal of success.”
The intention Brody brings to his work is unimpeachable—especially the way in which he’s marshalled it to raise significant funds for charities. “I should exceed a million dollars in donations this past year,” says Brody.
“That’s not something I could have done had I not taken this on.” Aside from his contributions to Teach for China, he’s helped benefit environmental initiatives, AIDs research, and other youth organizations, working with fellow actor and art collector Leonardo DiCaprio this summer for DiCaprio’s annual auction in St. Tropez. “I’m thrilled. You know, all of it is part of the bigger picture,” he says.
That’s not to say that putting acting somewhat to the side in order to pursue his art work hasn’t come without sacrifice.
“I obviously put down a lot of earning potential for two years to work on what I do creatively and to pursue a greater understanding of myself and a commitment to guiding myself,” he says.
But Brody also notes that the emotional openness and deeper inner consciousness that both acting and painting create each fertilize the other. Acting, says Brody, will always come first for him.
“I am an actor and I’m destined to be an actor. I was already an actor when I was rejected from art school.”
But with painting, he’s revived a dream once put on hold—and set a powerful example for others who may similarly be harboring unfulfilled creative passions.
Adrien Brody at the 2016 ART021 Shanghai Exhibition (Photos)
The actor, producer and Artist, Adrien Brody present his Art Serie “Hooked” for the 1st time in China at the 2016 ART021 Shanghai Exhibition on November 10-11, 2016.
Read more about Adrien Brody at the 2016 Art021 here.
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Adrien Brody present his Art serie “Hooked” in Shanghai – China. (2016 ART021)
The actor, producer and Artist, Adrien Brody present his Art Serie “Hooked” for the 1st time in China at the 2016 ART021 Shanghai Exhibition on November 10, 2016.
2016 ART021 Shanghai Exhibition: ART021, is an event held every year in Shanghai, China’s most important city. This year the guest of honor was the artist Adren Brody, who was presenting his second series of paintings to the press and visitors on this city.
There is no doubt that since his debut as an artist last year, Adrien Brody has captivated with his painting.
We show you some photos of the event !!
“Hooked” is his second art serie, presented last May 08 in New York. Previously, the Oscar winner had presented his first series of paintings titled “Hotdogs, Hamburgers and Handguns” at the Art Basel in Miami on 2015.
About his first art serie:
On “Hotdogs, Hamburgers and Handguns” Brody says:
“It’s an exploration of how, in our culture, we gravitate toward instant gratification. That guns are as commonplace as fast food. There’s a parallel between the way we reach for a hamburger to solve our hunger pangs and reach for a handgun to solve greater issues. I also want to delve into the conflicting messages that we receive as a young age, especially as boys, to play with guns.”
Second Art serie “Hooked”
“Hooked” is about fish-inspired paintings, sculptures and even a skateboard. Brody says his inspirations include everything from Japanese koi to Warhol’s 20-year consumption of Campbell’s soup.
“This series references our culture’s evolution to being “hooked” on convenience and instant gratification,” says Brody.
I’ve always loved fish. They are a wonderful example of something so delicate and so bright and alive, in the ocean they exist in the dark depths and I see that as a metaphor for the ability of the spirit and of life to shine bright in the darkness. In my first series, Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and Handguns, I reflect more on the overt darker elements that I feel are weighing on us in our society. Violence is ever-present and a threat that exists is something that is intangible and something that is very tangible. And in this series I am much more into that, although I touch on a bit of darkness with the carelessness of consumers, a modern world exudes and enables people to be less conscious, be part of what I find important, and the story telling here is we have to acknowledge the lightness within us and also recognize and care for the fragility in the world around us. The fish that live in that world are obviously victimized by our carelessness and perhaps under appreciated. – Adrien Brody (May 2016).
Read more about Adrien Brody’s artwork: clic here.
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Photos: weibo accounts.
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