WORK IN PROGRESS: A BROTH
In this encounter with Rapapawn, we will take a look at a piece ‘in the making’. In this case, it is an experimental animation piece whose completion and destination are still uncertain, because, although the basic premises are clear, doubts, insecurities and obstacles arising from the artists’ material, professional and personal circumstances filter into the process and condition the ways of working, moving forward and stopping. This premise promotes an immersion inside the artists’ methodology, formal-conceptual interests and concerns, and enables an exchange of impressions with the public, where the authors will outline the aims and future plans for this project.
Artists Óscar Raña and Cynthia Alfonso began working together in 2017. Since then, they have continued to collaborate on comic, animation, painting and installation projects. The core of their joint work is Rapapawn, an experimental animation studio where they work on geometric abstraction that unfolds frame by frame, based on relationships between form, rhythm, line and colour. They have worked alongside musical artists such as Holy Fuck, Dan Deacon and Altin Gün; for companies such as WeTransfer, Bandcamp, The New York Times, MOOG and Givenchy; and for music festivals (Best Kept Secret and ADE Festival in the Netherlands) and film festivals (Animario. International Festival of Contemporary Animation in Madrid). Their exhibition work has been shown at Mountain Analogue (Seattle), DEMO – It’s nice that (Amsterdam), and in other cities such as Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Porto and Paris. Their video work has won several awards, including the ASME Awards – Best Digital Illustration for his animation work for The Marshall Project and the Best Animation Award at the Kinomural festival (Poland).