Gelsen Gas

Who is Gelsen Gas?

Angel Sanchez Gas also known as Gelsen Gas 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' featuring Alejandro Jodorowsky, his homage to the Belgian surrealist artist René François Ghislain Magritte 'Homenaje a Magritte' and his self-portrait 'Autogelsen'.

Gas was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1933. His parents were Ángel Sánchez Bellido and Leonor Gas Murillo.

The painting Homenaje a Magritte and a collection of Gelsen Gas sculptures are part of a permanent collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno which also includes the work of the artists Frida Kahlo, Olga Costa, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

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