Guanajuato, Gto., August 6, 2016.- The visual artist Gabriella Nataxa García González will travel to Saitama, Japan, to exhibit her work in the Museum of Modern Art, in the Nebula Contemporary Art Festival 2016.

The work from the graduate of the University of Guanajuato that the Japanese will be able to appreciate in such museum, is an animates short that initially began as an experiment precisely in the ambience of animated drawing.

From her childhood, Gabriella Nataxa had a great interest for cartoons, in an interview she said that "at a very short age I began to fall in love with animated cartoon and as the time passed, I obsessed to do my own animations, since I wanted to put my fantasies in images. All this taste emerged because the ideas we created in the mind many time are impossible to translate them into reality and I thought that animation was the way to land them through a moving image."

The visual artist is the only Latin American artist that will participate in the Saitama exposition, place where she will also give a talk on her work both from Japanese artists as from other regions in the world.

The animation video is called "Des espanto al olvido," Gabriella commented that she covers the nostalgia she had created in certain houses she lived in. The also illustrator explained that to make the video, she took as first creative motivation, the memories and sensations that provoked visiting those houses again, "I went to the houses where I once live, made a tour and started drawing the ideas that came to my mind, then I animated all the drawings."

The graduate from the degree in Visual Arts of the University of Guanajuato, expressed that representing the Mexican artistic community that makes animation in Japan represents for her a great honor and especially in the area of animated drawings, since she highlighted that "Japan is a country that exported their culture trough anime, manga and illustrations, with this, they made the whole world fall in love. That now I can take my animation work, causes me to be very enthusiastic and also very curious to know how it will be received."

To finalize, she highlighted "I always wanted to study in the University of Guanajuato, because she represents a very strong cultural center, in addition in the cities are held very important festivals such as the Cervantino and the Film Festival. In addition, thanks to the exchange programs that the institution offers, I had the chance to study a semester in the National School of Plastic Arts, where I could specialize in certain animation techniques."

In a future, Gabriella would like to have her own animation studio, so she is working to achieve that, "in this studio she could work with creative people like me, I loved animation and illustration. Also, I would encourage more digital artists, I would like to have the opportunity to seek financing for them and take their work off."

The Nebula Contemporary Art Festival 2016, will be held from November 9th to 20th. For more information, please visit the following site: www.caf-n.com