THE ART OF CLAUDIO BERGAMIN

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Serial Killer

Cover art for Polish band Made of Hate. One thing I love about my work is the fact that I almost never know where my clients are going to lead me. Subjects and concepts are as different as you can get! One day I'm making this oniric landscape and a psycho killer's lair the next.

The band's working concept was: "please make a cross between Dexter and Hostel". I believe we achieved just that.

"Pathogen" take us inside the mind of a seriously disturbed man; a serial killer. He likes to suffocate and slowly torture his victims in a very elaborate ritual-like procedure. He's a loner with high IQ. He lives in a dark and isolated place of course... a place where he can work undisturbed in his "pieces"

I made it, and it still gives me the creeps! XD

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COVER ART

UNUSED CONCEPT

CHOSEN CONCEPT SKETCH

Friday, October 15, 2010

Circle II Circle - "Concecuence of Power" Concept Paintings

A digital painting series entitled "Concecuence of Power". Produced for a concept album of american band Circe II Circe. A storyline by singer Zak Stevens (ex-Savatage).

The story is set in the desert terrain along the border space that separates the U.S. and Mexico... All the story action occurs across the towns, cities, and territory along the border of Mexico and three U.S. states; California, Arizona, and New Mexico. It's about a 20 year old boy who is recruited by a drug cartel to become a hitman. Eventually he and his parter/lover Jessica end up in the crossfire of a war between corrupted goverment officials and the cartels

I envisioned the whole series as a Michael Mann movie.

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Interview

A very interesting interview posted by StampMagazine. Thanks to Jason for that!

CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW

Cheers!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Matte Painting: "The Unreturned"

Santiago City at the sea floor in a not so distant future. A matte painting for the sci-fi film "The Unreturned".

info:
"The Unreturned" (short sci-fi film) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geV868Z-9mU)
Directed by Raul Pinto
Produced by Luis Saavedra
Music by Ivo Pirovich (www.myspace.com/ivopirovich)
Altair Films (www.altairfilms.cl)

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MATTE PAINTING

DETAIL

ORIGINAL CONCEPT SKETCH

PRESS SHEET

Saturday, July 3, 2010

ESP Guitar Design

Guitar Design for private collector

This is one of those cool jobs that you won't get very often... a prototype guitar design. I aproached the micro-universe of life itself with cosmic proportions.

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CONCEPTION I

CONCEPTION II

DNA

FETUS DIGITAL PAINTING

SPERM DIGITAL PAINTING

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

LUCYBELL - "FENIX"

I decided to officially open this blog with a very special project.

Lucybell is very popular pop-rock band in South America. According to them, this album marks a new stage in their career... and they wanted something graphically strong for the birth of this FENIX.. which is the name of the record as well as the first single.

When the band asked me to develop a concept for this record I immediatelly knew it had to be something special. I also knew that once the record was out, it would be everywhere, so the image must be an eye catcher. And what better style to accomplish that than onyric surrealism? I mean, who hasn't been seduced by the art of Dalí, Magritte and Eschen? (to name a few). The band's previous album covers presented very simple and minimal designs so this was a very bold move by them; in fact, some fans didn't get it. Fortunatelly, the vast majority of their fans were nicely pleased by it and embraced its new aproach. The birth of a new era for the band.

The concept itself depicts an autumn scene with dry leaves flying freely around. In the middle of it, there is a ruined gate levitating over a beautiful lake. Through the gate, we can see the band's symbol emerging and spreading fire winds. For me, all of this symbolizes a new stage, a new season in life... evolution and development. The natural progression from old to new.