Vintage Marquee Art

enriqve aranacci bio: Like many other Peruvian artists such as Mario Testino and Alberto Vargas, Aranacci is a unique cultural phenomenon that now creates original vintage marquee art inspired for the evolutionary life. Aranacci has been exposed at Artropolis, One of a Kind and galleries throughout the United States. Many of his pieces are now possessed by commercial companies. He started many years ago painting one dimensional pieces then moved to convex canvas, three dimensional art, vitreography(1 ) and his most current work is vintage marquee art. For the last five years he has worked solely on marquees. This new chapter as an artist has created an explosion of passion within him and his life. “Making the same pieces over and over is not art, it is just work. It’s about the inspiration and synergy with the project and the client. Creating vintage marquee art is like the anticipation you have at the prelude of a dance but you cannot rush it and you have to be ready to be ready,” he says. In Aranacci’s earlier days creating and painting in one dimension was different, he didn’t have the multi-layers and dimension that this new era has brought about and it’s really got his creative juices flowing! When creating every piece of work (which he still calls a canvas) there is so much thought and inspiration that goes into each piece which can be very challenging. Aranacci’s creativity flourishes from him as he creates every piece to be bigger and better then the last. It sometimes takes days or weeks to get started in the process of designing a piece. Each piece must appear to have been from the 40’s-60’s which is a process in itself and requires lighting, texture and applying the ferocity of weathering onto it. As he is in the process of building the piece, which has already been created as a three dimensional piece in his mind, he sometimes must set the piece aside as a teaser for his creativity. Even though he has a vision in his mind the creativity never ends and he continues to think about how to enhance the piece and what it will look like at the end. Each piece is unique! No two pieces are exactly the same which is the beauty of his work. The final stage is the epilog of Aranacci. When the walls are up and the bulbs are in like in any of his projects the end result is absolutely amazing! When the lights finally go on, it’s like saying, “ACTION!” and there is no denying that another amazing piece of art has been created by Aranacci. 1 Vitreography is a process of drawing and painting on multiple levels of glass.