The poster for a cycling event has more importance than it seems at first glance, because it must know how to summarize the spirit of the event and at the same time keep the essence of the author. A challenge faced this year by cartoonist Oriol Rocawho also had to use his genius twice, who had to be immortalized in a work 103rd edition of the men’s Volta Ciclista a Catalunya and the first of the women’sin works of art that will remain in history.
Pleased to see the recognition of his work, Oriol Roca – winner of a Gaudí award for ‘Minorin’, the TV3 series also nominated for the Goya– still remembers with emotion that “my intention was to pay tribute to Catalan sport and I wanted to enhance the recreational aspect of the sport, paying tribute to nature and culture, with the monastery of Borges del Campwhich is my country.”
It was clear to me that I wanted them to be “clean drawings, I wanted a poster where I felt very recognizable and I kept some identity codes that were for me, like a white, transparent background, and I thought it was very bright, that it cut very well. the athletic silhouette.
After getting the men’s Volta poster approved, he knew he had to do the women’s. “So, I was very clear that there had to be continuity, that the two posters had to be read together, that the same scene could be seen from a different point of view. Talking to my wife Sònia He told me that it would be good for me to check other aspects. I changed things and released a woman who climbed a hill, looking like she was the first in the peloton, with the face of a winner. In the first sketches, my husband told me that I had to make the most heroic cyclist and he was right.” The second creation was simpler, because “at first I made a lot of tests and I spent several weeks working with a pencil, but femininely I already have a style.”
Big fan of BarçaOriol Roca feels a hypnotic attraction to cycling and when he thinks of cycling references he thinks of his father and Jacques AnquetilFrench cyclist, winner of eight Grand Tours and one of four winners of five Tours de France (1957, 1961, 1062, 1063, 1064), including Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain. “I remember that when my father saw a cyclist on the street he said to me, look at Jacques Anquetil, and for me he was a kind of moral and family reference.”
Source: La Verdad
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