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Author | Oscar Lopez<\/p>\n

David Trullo is a Spanish artist that specializes in photography and videography. He has exhibited in many cities around the world including Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Berlin, Cannes, and New York. In 2002 he was the artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. His striking imagery creates a dialogue on the topic of gender identity as well as the meaning and uses of iconography.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Olympia Boys | \u00a9 David Trullo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where were you born? Where did you study? How and when did you become an artist?<\/b><\/p>\n

I was born in Madrid and studied Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense. I remember wanting to be an artist from an early age. It was the first thing I wrote in the first diary I started when I was 8 \u2013I want to be a painter-. The diary was abandoned a day after. My father, Santos Trullo, was a photojournalist and specialized in bullfighting. I often recall the happy times helping him in his darkroom when I was about 10.<\/p>\n

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Can you name some artists that have influenced your work? Can you explain why their work has been important to you?<\/b><\/p>\n

I curiously think more of writers and filmmakers than visual artists: Pasolini, Cocteau, Murnau\u2026 People say I\u2019m very influenced by artists like Andy Warhol, Yves Saint Laurent, Gilbert and George and the old masters of Spanish and Italian Baroque. I like them, so I guess they are right.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 David Trullo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spain is a country where history, tradition and religion are very important to culture. Has this affected your work? How?<\/b><\/p>\n

It has affected me in the way that Spanish culture is very about \u2018tragicomedy\u2019. We have, like all Southern Europeans, high levels of drama, but I think we have here a special kind of \u2018natural black humour\u2019 that comes from the certainty of living in a country that could be great but always \u2018fucks up\u2019.<\/p>\n

Your work often takes images or ideas from art history or religion and subverts or \u2018queers\u2019 them. Why is challenging the canon important to you?<\/b><\/p>\n

It is not really a \u2018conscious attack\u2019 but more playing with the symbols that are part of our visual culture, and find new meanings or uses to them, or just keep playing with images, like all artists do.<\/p>\n