Gelsen Gas

Gelsen Gas

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Production

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1933-01-01

  • Day of Death

    2015-01-01 (82 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Mexico City, Mexico

Biography

Gels Gas born Ángel Sánchez Gas was a Mexican filmmaker, actor, poet, painter and sculptor.

Angel Sanchez Gas (1933–2015) was popularly known as Gelsen Gas, an alliterative pseudonym. He was a multifaceted and interdisciplinary artist, theater director, film director, film producer, actor, painter, poet, sculptor and inventor, based in Mexico City, Mexico. His career and style are highly diversified and hard to classify. 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, his painting 'Homenaje a Magritte' (1969), an homage to the Belgian surrealist artist René François Ghislain Magritte and his self-portrait 'Autogelsen' (1971). Gas himself has work visually inspired by the surrealism movement.

Acting

Crew