The introduction to a brand new guide by make-up artist Marcelo Gutierrez is written by his shut buddy Lily-Rose Depp. ‘[Make-up] is the artwork that strikes and breathes with us, that turns into us and helps us change into who we wish to be. It brings the within to the very floor and turns into the pores and skin we reside in,’ the actor says within the ahead to Nothing Valuable.
Gutierrez echoes this sentiment after I converse to him over a name from the set of his newest photoshoot, forward of the guide’s launch at Climax Books in New York – town he calls dwelling. ‘Magnificence is lots much less about altering one thing about your self and extra about placing a highlight on the weather that make you who you might be,’ he says. ‘Make-up, on the finish of the day, reveals lots about an individual’s relationship to themselves by what they determine to magnify, cover, and even change.’
Marcelo Gutierrez: ‘Nothing Valuable’
Lourdes Leon with make-up by Marcelo Gutierrez
(Picture credit score: Pictures by Aidan Zamiri)
‘[Make-up] is the artwork that strikes and breathes with us, that turns into us and helps us change into who we wish to be. It brings the within to the very floor and turns into the pores and skin we reside in.’
Lily-Rose Depp within the ahead of ‘Nothing Valuable’ by Marcelo Gutierrez
Over the previous eight years, Gutierrez’s work has illustrated how even a few colored pigments can utterly rework and embolden the particular person sporting them. It’s a expertise that was noticed by Pat McGrath in 2016: upon seeing a few of his portfolio on Instagram, she despatched him a DM and shortly grew to become a mentor. Since then, along with Depp, he has painted the faces of Emma Corrin, Hari Nef, Caroline Polachek, Rosalia, Hunter Schafer, Alek Wek, Lourdes Leon and her mom, Madonna. He’s labored with manufacturers together with Louis Vuitton, Bvlgari and Kiko Constadinov and counts photographers Tyler Mitchell, Campbell Addy, Petra Collins, Aidan Zamiri, Renell Medrano and Jan Anthonio as frequent collaborators.
(Picture credit score: Pictures by Aidan Zamiri)
Zamiri and Medrano contribute to Nothing Valuable. Additionally featured is Anthonio, clad in a leather-based vest and low-slung pants, with silver paint on his brow and nostril; the hairstylist Evanie Frausto, sporting a masks of purple face paint; and Sonny Molina, who’s remodeled right into a modern-day pieta, with plastic tears and pores and skin glazed as if it was forged in an oven. Mannequin Gabriette stares languidly from its pages, her eyes winged with black and silver liner, while Paloma Elsesser seems eerie in a black veil and colour-changing contacts.
(Picture credit score: Pictures by Aidan Zamiri)
Born in Columbia, Guitterrez immigrated to Florida along with his household when he was a baby. As a younger grownup, he pursued an artwork diploma in Los Angeles, in the end ending up in New York and changing into properly acquainted with the struggles of creating it as a inventive within the metropolis. ‘To be frank, I used to be an aspiring efficiency artist and painter however that doesn’t pay the hire in New York except you come from a rich household,’ he says. ‘I knew I needed to pursue make-up after I understood that it mixed all these components of efficiency, identification, style and picture making whereas concurrently being a probably worthwhile job.’
‘The most important problem is getting by way of the door and within the room with those who beforehand didn’t assume there was room for somebody such as you,’ he continues. ‘I’m happy with how tenacious and powerful I’m with out compromising my morals. My finest recommendation is – if somebody says no, you’re speaking to the fallacious particular person.’
(Picture credit score: Pictures by Aidan Zamiri)
This uncompromising vitality radiates in Gutierrez’ work. As I used to be flipping by way of Nothing Valuable, my thoughts stored returning to The Warriors, a 1979 movie that depicts gangs in flamboyant face paint and thrift retailer regalia battling it out for the streets of a post-apocalyptic New York. It took me a minute to determine why. However then I realised it was as a result of everybody on this guide seems prepared for battle, defiant in a splendidly outlandish approach. Even a easy, shiny lip has the identical impact.
As a result of the entire figures in Nothing Valuable are Gutierrez’s buddies, there’s a sense of intimacy displayed in its contents, too. The structure lends itself to a sense of taking a look at one thing private; one thing that’s, regardless of the title, valuable. Photographs are spliced as if you’re scrolling by way of them on a display screen. Some sit scrap-book-like, atop pocket book pages or bits of ephemera.
‘This can be a guide a few universe – a New York universe throughout a really particular time.’
Marcelo Gutierrez
Collectively, it creates the sensation of a ‘work-in-progress’, as if you have been on set with Gutierrez and the photographers, deciding what photos ought to make the ultimate reduce. It’s a snapshot of a present ‘second’ in New York, the place town looks like it’s teetering on the sting, however ripe with inventive potential nonetheless. ‘Everybody concerned on this guide has both identified me since I arrived in New York Metropolis at 20 years outdated or has been, in some kind, a beacon of inspiration to me,’ he says. ‘This can be a guide a few universe – a New York universe throughout a really particular time.’
Nothing Valuable by Marcelo Gutierrez is accessible now.
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