DANIEL GARBADE

THE PRESS SAYS

CARTEL

Madrid 8/2000

Daniel Garbade and Alejandro Arteche

"..This show is a fine example of how to aproach the universal theme of "the portrait" in new and different forms.

Garbade and Arteche both explore the human nature starting from similar positions, trying to digg in the depth of their models personality with austerity.

Nevertheless they differ, as Arteches fotografs are showing us the most real personages out of extrem urban surroundings, Garbades enigmatic Portraits are creations out of his own imagination,with a accentuated and expilcit sexual power.

Voices

José Saramago

"...Concieved as a reflection about tolerance, this superb exhibit by Daniel Garbade shows us faces and looks, in the most human way, precisely where it reveals and disguises itself the most. In all the expresions of his figures, I find a questionmark, a doubt, a desire to know.

(translated out of his text in the book:Côctel, ,Toledo,Spain,1996)

Leopoldo Alas

"...When he speaks, when he draws or paints, Daniel Garbade has his own accent, a way of being wich will always turn him into a foreigner: In Switzerland he is Cuban and Spanish, in Spain he is Swiss, but also English and French. And furthermore, a way of doing: in drawings he is a painter and in paintings he is a drawsman...."