Saturday, April 4, 2020

GOODBYE, JUAN GIMENEZ...


For Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal magazines, you were a king of kings. (Beyond a doubt, your design for the Harry Canyon, Heavy Metal movie segment stands as the greatest of extrapolated noir.) 


Leo RoaThe Fourth Power and The Metabarons (the latter with visionary Alejandro  Jodorowsky) were also art-world-shakers, filled with dreams both old and new, dark and bright. 


In that regard, one could claim that your illustrative style merged the best of exotica with the best of massive machinery, where steamy sex flowed seamlessly with high-tech gear, but even those descriptions don't do justice to the gamut of your talent. 


You were--and will always stay--the crown prince of modern, science-fiction artwork, Mr. Gimenez, but more than that, a champion architect of a future that adventure connoisseurs can only hope will someday be. 

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