page_title: Giovanni Gil
section_title: Bajo Presión [Under Pressure]
hierarchical_section_title: Giovanni Gil / Soñar al Revés [Dreaming Backwards] / Bajo Presión [Under Pressure]
caption_attribution_description: Español: Obra de Giovanni Gil, Grabado
context_page_description: Giovanni Gil, also known as Hector Giovanni Gil Portillo is a plastic artist and one of the greatest exhibitors of Engraving in El Salvador. He is the founder and director of the projects Soñar al Revés [Dreaming Backwards] and Bajo Presión [Under Pressure] and is the winner of the Silver Medal at the Salon of Contemporary Art El Salvador-
  Japón.
context_section_description: “The project aims to generate a participation among established, emerging and initiated (students) artists in the practice of engraving, with the purpose of transferring knowledge” - Giovanni Gil.
  This is how Giovanni Gil defines the project of which he is founder and director. Bajo Presión [Under Pressure] was born with a primary objective, which is to join the guild of artists in El Salvador, And not only to seek unity among them, but to retake the technique that was and has been practiced by great exhibitors of plastic art in history. Its name comes from the process of creating an engraving where pressure is exerted on two surfaces and an image is obtained, however it is also born, as described by one of the participants Juan Glower, by the group pressure that is generated where the opinions of all counts and one has to strip himself of his individuality to form part of a whole; among the techniques that this artist has encouraged to learn or develop in greater depth are Etching, Aquatint and Drypoint.
  “[...] The democratization of the visual arts is sought, both in visual consumption and material” - Giovanni Gil.
  This particular project brought together, in its first edition in 2013, 22 Salvadoran artists and students of engraving  and was dedicated to the person who inspired Giovanni to undertake the arts, Carlos Cañas. .
  Bajo Presión 2014, reunited 32 artists and students, this is when the Secretary of Culture appointed the month of February 2014 as the Engraving month in El Salvador. In Bajo Presión 2015, 36 artists met, among them students, as on previous occasions, in order to support talented young Salvadorans to forge their careers in art.
  In 2016 the activity is carried out for the fourth consecutive year and the number of participants grows, being 44 artists and students, the technique that was worked on that occasion was Chalcography and Drypoint and the engravings were mostly illuminated . At the same time Silvia Elena Regalado, Secretary of Culture, re-denominates February as Engraving month in the context of the inauguration of Bajo Presión 2016 . Another important aspect that all the editions of Bajo Presión have is that the collection of engravings after its official presentation travel and are exhibited throughout El Salvador to bring art to the public.
caption: Engraving of Giovanni Gil, exhibition Bajo Presión 2016
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