I have been planning to post about Franco's work for quite some time now, and finally that day is here... His work has this great experimental quality, and feels playful even though he mostly uses subdued colours (like black and white). He's a graphic designer, who does "secret collage experiments" at home... I'm quite glad he has decided to share them with us instead of keeping them a secret!

Name (Real or Screename): Franco Ferrari aka DR XERO, DOC XERO, Herr Doctor X$$ERO, bla bla bla bla
URL (Blog, Website): http://drxero.com.ar, http://flickr.com/drxero
Location (Where are you from?): Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Taking colours and forms, composing them in some sort of abstract way, creating a new form.

Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Nowadays I like to work with everything really, from candy wrappers and gift papers to vinyls and golden stuff. Although when I first started illustrating I used mainly vintage magazines, ads or pictures, old style papers, the usual; but now i'm more into papers of all types, I concentrate on the colour and then create a form cutting them up, then I also use images taken from magazines, newspapers, internet, or wherever I can get them.

Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I guess I'm really "new" to this, I started when I was studying graphic design like 5 years ago. Partly by my fondness of cutting and placing images and also by watching the works of people like David Carson, Eduardo Recife, Thomas Schostok, Dadaism in general too. All that unconsciously took me to where I am now (where am I?).

Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I also work as a graphic designer, trying to make it my own way while I do my secret experiments with collage at home, hahaha.

Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: Mmm, not really, apart from studying graphic design, which I can't say helped at all! But I always liked the arts in general so it was just curiosity and of course being gifted ahahahahaha!