Photographer sample its image of Fragility
By Héctor Fuentes
REFORMA
(12 May 2003).-

Design Do prize in Japan. Maximum award in the category of Visual Design in the Biennial of Nagoya obtains Carlos González Manjarrez.

The photographic work "Let us liver", from the Mexican Carlos González Manjarrez received the Silver Prize recently in the categoryof Visual Design, within the Biennial the International, of the Design Center, in Nagoya, Japan.Under the main subject "the Power of the Fragility", around thousand 754 creators worldwide participated with their proposals in the categories of architecture, industrial, visual and graphicl design.

González Manjarrez was only the Mexican registered in the contest.Between the examining jury of the Biennial they honored designers like
Shigeru Uchida, that has permanent presence of its work in the Museum of Modern Art, of New York; and Taku Sato, that has received important
recognitions like Tokyo ADC Award.

"Let us live " is made up of two photographies that, the author says, show the power of the fragility. in which the nature is before the man and the fauna."This does not enter within some style but art could be consideredvisual", explains González Manjarrez.In order to develop this work, the author was able peal a fish to which he cleared in several days the meat to obtain the wished effect, and dried the Earth of the bottom to give an old aspect.

Also he used digital adjustments to manipulate the sticky band to the size that represents. "Apparently it is seen very simple, but the process of conception to unite the stem with the column of the fishwas very long" assures. The forms of the thorns of the rose and thefish give a self-defense sensation, and create the dramatic quality atmosphere that it looked for from the planning.

My school is the oneof the great Hungarian teacher of poster Peter Pócs, of whom I learned that a designer must of being as a writer and to make poetry
by means of the design; thus it was as it initiated this fragile process "asserts.

."I have always admired the nature in its different expressions, from adusk to a drop of water.

For that reason I decided to make photographies that detailed extremely this reality."With a band aid I dealt to represent all the humanity and its prehistoric way of thinking, being shown the infant solutions that we give for a deep problem: the fragile state of the life that we lived ", expresses González Manjarrez."the fragility is a thin line between two poles; between heavy and thelight thing, between the life and the death ", it concludes the designer.