Gargantúa is a self-funded magazine created in 2010 by Gabriel Vallecillo Márquez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with the initial support of artist Iván Fiallos and later by graphic designer Verónica Romero.

The magazine Gargantúa was a bid to promote and disseminate poetry and the arts from an irreverent, humorous, satirical and critical stance on the artistic world and society. Our motto "art poetry lithium" reflected just that… some relief from this crazy bygone world! Its name, of course, is inspired by "The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel" (1532-1564), a novel by François Rabelais. A gentle giant, a “monster”, with a good heart.

In total we managed to publish 9 issues of the magazine Gargantúa, with free distribution, until the economic conditions did not allow us to continue anymore.

Cover art by Ana Granera for the 4h edition of the printed magazine.
Cover art by Ana Granera for the 4h edition of the printed magazine.

During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin, Gargantúa was revived, where neighbor's walls became the paper where it was once printed through guerrilla projection techniques. The same logics of contents was transferred from the printed paper onto the wall in public space. Around 25 artists where published in the 7 editions of Gargantúa guerrilla projections, ranging from poetry, visual poetry, video art, protest/ resistance art, short-films, paintings, performance, dance, design, crypto art, live visuals, illustration, photography and others.

Gargantúa guerrilla projection during 2020 lockdown, Berlin.
Gargantúa guerrilla projection during 2020 lockdown, Berlin.

what we are aiming

Gargantúa, Ed. 6, artwork design by Verónica Romero.

Print

ART POETRY LITHIUM

Revive the printed magazine in Germany, with a multilingual poetry and literature format.

Gargantúa, Ed. 6, artwork design by Verónica Romero.

Invade

Guerrilla Projections

Continue guerrilla projections through open calls for artists to participate.

Gargantúa, Ed. 6, artwork design by Verónica Romero.

Archive

Global curatorial and research archive

Develop the guerrilla projection archive as part of the research “Re-thinking Videomapping: art, politics and activism in the periphery”,

Gargantúa, Ed. 6, artwork design by Verónica Romero.

Develop

Guerrilla art strategies

from hardware /software hacking, innovative equipment usage to media deployment strategies for simultaneous global actions and art invasions.

we are invading