He was still very young when he saw his father, with the record player at full volume, break out in the living room dancing rock. The little boy looked at him with the roundness of his open mouth. He didn’t understand anything, but he felt that the sound was invading him and that something, inside of him, ordered him to move too. Thus, Sherman Meléndez (Lima, 1978) plunged headlong into the noise and storm of rock.
Over the years, he became a painter, but he never left music. What’s more, he wanted to go to Conservatory. But it happened that from an early age he had also discovered another passion, drawing and painting. For this reason, when deciding which profession to study, he had the dilemma whether to stay as a rocker in a band -because he had his band- or to be a plastic artist.
How he ended up in the Fine Arts classrooms is another story. The truth is that now, with the sample “Hit Rock”, that he exhibits in the Martín Yepez gallery, in which he presents portraits of mythical rockers, both passions are together. “For me, color also has music, and vice versa. This exhibition is, above all, a tribute to José Emilio Meléndez Polo, my father, who passed away a year ago and who led me down the path of rock”, affirms the artist.
The show presents a gallery of rockers from the 70s, 80s and 90s. There, among others, are Freddie Mercury, Cindy Lauper, Morrissey, Diana Ross, Jim Morrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Smith, Madonna, Laura Branigan and Cher. Also Whitney Houston, Mick Jagger, Sting, Paul Stanley and Eddie Van Halen, who were idols of his father and his as well. The portraits are painted with a spatula, forcefully, like someone who accentuates cuts to highlight the character, the character’s gesture. The colors, which are mixed between warm and cold, seem to recreate the vibration and seductive stridency of rock.
spatula Sherman Melendez he searched for the face and soul of rock musicians and singers in their respective photographs. “To portray them, I chose that the photos be in black and white because I had to make my contribution, in addition to drawing and composition, with color. I had to put something of my own in them, what I experienced with rock”, notes the artist.
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