Mordillo - a name, which is now a trademark, a promise of good spirits and a guarantee of quality. But the brilliant career of Argentinean Guillermo Mordillo, who was born in 1932 in Buenos Aires from Spanish immigrants, is the result not just of creative flair and luck but also of will power and perseverance. It is the result of constant daily commitment and not merely of improvised bizarre ideas.

Guillermito was still a boy when he began earning a living from drawing and that typically adolescent enthusiasm with which he approaches his work, the work of a lifetime, has never quite disappeared. This enthusiasm also involves a constant desire to change, to try his hand at new possibilities and to create a new personal image. It is also why even today, after a fifty-year long career, Mordillo still keeps changing the houses he lives in, the countries he travels to and the languages in which he expresses himself. (but his drawings remain perpetually and decidedly silent, understandable all over in the same manner and entrusted only to the universal language of images). Over the years Mordillo has lived and worked in Peru, in the United States, in France and in Spain. He has illustrated fairytale books for children, designed advertising campaigns, created cartoons, designed greeting cards and sketched humorous pictures.                                    next