2024 Óscar Llorens from TING TING ART SPACE 丁丁藝術空間

插畫家奧斯卡（Oscar Llorens），15年來畫師生涯所合作的對象，不僅囊括《華盛頓郵報》、《浮華世界》等國際媒體，亦曾為可口可樂、聯合國以及太陽馬戲團等企業際組織量身打造文宣品。與此商業插畫工作馳騁俱進的，則是塑料藝術自由創作，並於馬德里、巴塞隆納、巴黎、紐約和墨西哥城等地舉辦個展與群展。繪作靈感經常受生活各層面所啟發的Llorens，有時綴以飽滿鮮妍用色，並富有怪譎和卡通意象的韻致；有時則為純然或帶點褪色感的黑白畫面。一如優游於這兩類風格間，他熟稔地駕馭傳統手繪技術之餘，也擅使數位工具。

Llorens兒時各種幻夢奇想，多得自日本動漫的啟蒙，諸如《科學小飛俠》（Gatchaman）、《無敵鐵金剛》（Mazinger Z）與《太空神話》（Ulysses 31），直到14歲接觸動畫傳奇神作、賽博龐克（Cyberpunk）經典《阿基拉》（Akira）後更得到大幅躍進。如此脈絡下，他毫不遲疑選擇了東京作為狂飲創意的甘泉美地，並挪用了龍貓、原子小金剛、Hello Kitty等大量知名的日本動漫角色，作為東京狂想之旅的摹繪與詮釋。

Oscar Llorens has worked with international media such as The Washington Post and Fauve World, as well as corporate organizations such as Coca-Cola, the United Nations, and Cirque du Soleil for over 15 years. This commercial illustration work is complemented by freelance work in plastic art, with solo and group exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, New York and Mexico City. Inspired by all aspects of life, Llorens' paintings are sometimes full of vibrant colors, with a touch of quirky and cartoonish imagery, and sometimes in plain or faded black and white. As fluid as he is between these two styles, he is skilled in traditional hand-drawn techniques as well as digital tools.

Llorens' childhood fantasies were inspired by Japanese anime, such as Gatchaman, Mazinger Z, and Ulysses 31, until the age of 14, when he was introduced to the animated legend, Cyberpunk's classic Akira. Akira" at the age of 14. In this vein, he did not hesitate to choose Tokyo as the land of creative fervor, and appropriated a large number of well-known Japanese anime characters such as Totoro, Atomic King Kong, Hello Kitty, etc., as a copy and interpretation of Tokyo's rhapsodic journey.