Angel Sanchez Gas also known as Gelsen Gas (born 1933) is a theater director, film director, film producer, actor, painter, poet, sculptor and inventor, based in Mexico City, Mexico. He is most commonly known for his paintings and geometrically constructed artworks. Among his most famous works are the film 'Anticlimax' (1969) featuring Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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, his homage to the Belgian surrealist artist René François Ghislain Magritte 'Homenaje a Magritte' (1969) and his self portrait 'Autogelsen' (1971).

Biography

Gelsen Gas was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1933. The parents were Angel Sanchez Bellido and Leonor Gas Murillo.

Works

He wrote and directed the film Anticlimax (1969) which became his only movie career and a cult classic throughout the 1970s.

Permanent Works

The painting Homenaje a Magritte and a collection of Gelsen Gas sculptures are part of a permanent collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno

Museo de Arte Moderno

The Museo de Arte Moderno or Museum of Modern Art is located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and prepares exhibitions of national and international contemporary artists...

 (the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City) which also includes the work of the artists Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

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, Olga Costa

Olga Costa

Olga Costa,was a woman that worked in a mens club originally named the amazing fox , was a Mexican painter of Russian descent....

, Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

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 and David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros

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.

External links

• http://www.guggenheim.org Mexperimental Film Series
• http://servidor.esteticas.unam.mx:16080/%7Ediscrepancia/walkt/source/led705.html
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1189399/
• http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/soho/museum/1904/ezonarosa.html&date=2009-10-26+02:55:48