Ayax Barnes

The cartoonist Ayax Barnes (Rosario, Argentina, 1926 -Barcelona, ​​Spain 1993) spaced several areas of graphic arts, changing and enriching the aesthetics of book illustration, to which he contributed an imagination that became style. His works in the field of children's illustration are a reference full of freedom, originality and imagination. In Argentina, during the 1960s and 1970s, his numerous books were bestsellers and among them, those published in collections such as "Los cuentos de Polidoro" and "Los Libros del Chiribitil" of the Publishing Center of Latin America. His works in the field of graphic arts were foundational in many aspects and encompassed painting, which he never left aside, alongside sculpture, performing scenographies for theater and puppets, advertising and animation cinema, among other fields artistic. His life, a long one-way trip, with his companion the writer Beatriz Doumerc -author of much of his books-, led him to live in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Brescia in northern Italy and then to Barcelona, ​​where he made these, his last works. While most of Ayax Barnes's works are dedicated to the illustration of children's books; He was also the author of posters, stationery, packaging, covers, disc and book covers, and various forms of graphic design. Ayax Barnes was the creator of the Ayuí / Tacuabé logos, a Uruguayan record label founded in 1971 by a group of independent musicians - José “Pepe” Guerra, Daniel Viglietti, Braulio López and Coriún Aharonián—, in order to support musical manifestations of artistic value ignored by commercial record companies. And along with Hermenegildo Sábat, Barnes also designed and produced vinyl covers for this and other record labels.