DAVID J. ROMERO

Filmmaker, photographer and painter

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El Jardín de las Falicias 2017, Acrilico sobre base cerámica (2 piezas) 46x28cm (p1)  y 24x18cm (p2)

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Installation for Day of the Dead in Altavista Uno Cuatro Siete

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Demo Reel 2014

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Commissioned work for the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland.  In collaboration with the Lenny Trusler Children's Foundation, The International Motion Festival of Cyprus , and the Pharaohs Art Foundation

Directed by Dana Dal Bo http://www.danadalbo.com

Original score by Mark Anthony Turnage

performed by Ashley Wass : piano and Matthew Trusler : violin

set design : Steve McCuen

D.O.P. : David J. Romero and Rafael Favero

watch video here: https://vimeo.com/147194354

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http://todossomosmariposas.org Documentary (1/4) exploring the importance of the monarch butterfly in our ecosystem. Documental (1/4) que explora la importancia de la mariposa monarca en nuestro ecosistema

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All images are oil on canvas. Exhibition at Corsica Gallery, Puerto Vallarta. 

To Insects  - Sensual Lust

I am that insect, brother, and it is said of me specially. All we (...) are such insects, and, angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a tempest in your blood. Tempest, because sensual lust is a tempest worse than a tempest! Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am a cultivated man, brother, but I’ve thought a lot about this. It’s terrible what mysteries there are! Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve mysteries them as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. Beaty! I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What’s still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna, and his heart may be on fire with that ideal, genuinely on fire, just as his days of youth and innocence. Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I’d have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart if man. But a man always talks of his own ache. Listen, now come to facts.

Dostoyevsky, an extract from The Karamazov Brothers. 

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FROM WHERE THE BUTTERFLIES GO This Project consists of the installation of thousands of butterflies (made out of acetate) recreating monarch butterflies sanctuaries in the middle of urban landscapes.

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Manifesto Commissioned work by Olive Oils from Spain.Music extract from 'MANIFESTO' composed by Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer, performed by Marie Michel Beauparlanthttp://www.anapaolasa.com/recordings/

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eXXXvotos 

La creación de esta intervención surge de la colaboración que realizó WHITE SPIDER con el Director de Arte y Fotógrafo David J. Romero -formado artísticamente en Montreal, Canadá.

Él es el puente que nos llevará hacia un grupo de jóvenes pertenecientes a la escena artística de Montreal.

Creamos un encuentro íntimo en un departamento privado completamente intervenido en el corazón de la Colonia Roma. La invitación es para sumergirse y realizar un recorrido de ofrendas realizadas a entidades supremas (exvotos), narrativas en formas de fotografías, esculturas, amuletos y alquimia, instalación sonora, collage, dibujos, pinturas y vídeo arte; conformamos un santuario para el público y los artistas que son parte de esta experiencia.

Visita la pagina de Withe Spider www.whitespiderproject.com

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The Service Multimedia Performance where all the actors where equipped with video and sound recording gear to record the audience. Featuring the execution of TRAMONTO composed by Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer, directed by Dra. Alexandra Fol.

To watch the performance click here: TRAMONTO

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Altarpiece Variaton No.2 (LOVE LIVE) As part of ART SOUTERRAIN 2013 and La Nuit Blanche à Montréal

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† A photographic installation that draws upon one vision of Montréal’s history and geographical significance as seen through the eyes of a small-city-boy: the Young Artist, who believes in magic and true love. Shot in eleven frames, each tableau represents a Saint in Montréal’s big-city mise-en-scene-- stories and areas that relate to the first eleven years he spent living in Montréal

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Tigerless but Hopeful "This cycle of photographs mourns the loss of a lover, and simultaneously unveils a sequence of transformations that the central character undergoes – a sequence in which the lover, in the absence of his beloved, seeks to attend to the cultivation of his proper garden. The ordeal of this metamorphosis is enacted with a subtle aura of pleasure, as though in a dream he saw a way to survive this tribulation and was full of joy." Fiona Annis

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State of Grace 

A state of consciousness where one feels loved and cared by the infinite intelligence to which one belongs.

Featuring Laurence Fournier

Styling AN Soubiran Original

Score by Anthime Miller

Directed and Produced by David J. Romero

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Hikis These are a few of my favorite images I created for a mexican shoe company named Hikis. Check their website here: www.hikis.com.mx

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Heiligenschein Research for future performance

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Strangeness of beauty A youth enters onto a carpet of blossoming flowers through the gateways of the sea.