Alberto Abbate
Pen & Ink Drawings
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson
Don't waste your time
Pen & Ink on paper 2019
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME
"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
Anthony Bourdain
Hoping
Pen & Ink on paper 2017
HOPING
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes."
Marcel Proust
Nurturing
Pen & Ink on paper 2019
NURTURING
"For me, beauty is a phisical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't."
Jorge Luis Borges
My Way
Pen & Ink on paper 2017
MY WAY
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Burnt Out
Pen & Ink on paper 2018
BURNT OUT
"Bang, bang, bang... hojas muertas que caen. Siempre igual, los que no pueden más, se van."
"Viernes 3am" - Serú Giran
Partners in Crime
Pen & Ink on paper 2018
PARTNERS IN CRIME
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pan and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
Walter Anderson
Did you call me?
Pen & Ink on paper 2017
DID YOU CALL ME?
"...it came to my mind the thought that I didn't come to this world just to accumulate material goods. I've been around for over half a century and I am starting to feel the need to create something useful for humanity before I leave."
Me
Happy
Pen & Ink on paper 2019
HAPPY
"A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear."
Allegra Versace
Miscommunication
Pen & Ink on paper 2019
MISCOMMUNICATION
"Cell phones bring you closer to the person far from you. But take you away from the ones sitting next to you."
Annonymous
Dinner will be ready in no time
Pen & Ink on paper 2018
DINNER WILL BE READY IN NO TIME
"We are, after all, citizens of the world - a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's?"
Anthony Bourdain
Biography
I was born in La Plata, Argentina in 1966. I graduated as a Visual Communications Designer at the University of Fine Arts in La Plata, Argentina 1991. After my graduation I spent seven years in Buenos Aires working in the Publishing industry, designing magazines and book covers. When I came to London in 1998 at the age of 32, I was really lucky to spent two years working at one of the first Internet Communities called "Fortunecity"; after the Internet crushed I worked the following two years at "SportingBet" as Graphic & Web Designer.
Between 2004 and 2014 he dedicated his time to Hospitality, opening several Argentine Restaurants in London
In 2017 he started drawing, experimenting with different mediums, and feeling specially attracted to pen and ink.
- Location: London, United Kingdom
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