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"The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers. Those who float away their lives on ships or who grow old leading horses are forever journeying, and their homes are wherever their travels take them. Many of the men of old died on the road, and I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming."
The Narrow Road to the Interior (奥の細道 Oku no Hosomichi). Matsuo Basho
Hector is an illustrator and filmmaker born in Argentina with German citizenship.
He was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in the autumn of 1954. His father was a tailor and his mother carried the lights of the salted desert from the north of Argentina in her eyes.
He received his first and fundamental artistic formation in his childhood. He never forgot the light of the evenings in the kitchen, the scent of freshly baked bread, the radio soaps, listened at the hour of the siesta, the stories told by his uncles in the long summer nights, The mysterious shelter among the branches of trees.
He studied in the School of Fine arts at the University of Córdoba. Here he was introduced to Velázquez, Rembrandt and Hugo Pratt.
Somewhat later he began to collaborate in newspapers as illustrator for different newpapers and magazines, both in Argentina and in foreign countries.
He also began to participate in different film projects, and together with a group of friends, created an film workshop studio for children.
In 1982 he moved to Brazil where he was published in the newspaper "La Fohla do Sao Paulo".
In 1983 he arrived in Italy, where besides continuing his film experience, he began to collaborate in the satiric supplement of the newspaper LA REPUBBLICA and in the creation of the magazine L' ANAMORFICO directed by Pino Zac and where Topor, Puig Rosado, Desclozeaux, Barbe, and Cardon were published.
In 1986 he transferred to Berlin where he worked as illustrator, Comics Author and Filmmaker.
In 1992, he published BLUE TANGO, a graphic novel whose main character is Paulo Funes a melancholic detective who comes from the cold and distant south.
As illustrator, he co-operated with various German publishing houses, including Langenscheidt and the Magazine “Ecos de España”.
He also illustrated the covers for the collection of Spillane novels published by Rotbuch Verlag.
In Italy he was published in “Storie”, "News Settimanale", "Diario", and illustrated the book "La cinquecento" for the publishing house Leconte
He made many films for the German Television, as director and cinematographer. He is also short animation films maker.
Since 2004 lives and works between Rome and Berlin.
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