Artwork Description: Surrounded by forests and mountains in the Patagonian Andes, the immense Perito Moreno glacier rises over the Lago Argentino as an imposing ice wall of blue, grey and white tones. It seems as though the ice was sleeping in immensity, keeping millenary memories, until all of a sudden it awakens and lets us…
Artwork Description: This piece is inspired by lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Perú. According to the stories of the Aymara people, lake Titicaca was a dry and flat terrain in remote times. There lived Pura Kalsuna, a small-sized person. He lived at the top of a mountain which helped him survive the Great Andean Flood…
Artwork Description: This piece is inspired by the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a mountain range that rises to more than five thousand meters above the Caribbean sea in Colombia. The iku or arhuaco people is one of the five nations who live there. Their creator deity is Kaku Serankua who, as the story goes,…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: I started this piece painting flowers with great freedom and enjoying new and joyful colors. I saw that after the flowers, leaves and even fruits started coming up in the composition. I thought of the Amazon rainforest and that’s why the work is titled “Chagra”: the space where the peoples…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: This work depicts the “Devil’s Pulpit”, a peak in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy mountain range in Colombia. Summits like this one which are more than 5600 meters tall are sacred for the U’wa people because they are the dominion of immortal beings in their mythology. The U’wa narrate their…
Artwork Description: This piece speaks of the Amazon as a living territory: both as river and the tropical rainforest organism that surrounds it. The carved lines form a changing cartography that can be read as a fluvial system as well as veins on the skin of the earth that beat and transport what sustains life…
Artwork Description: The basin of the largest river on Earth is home to around 400 amazonian peoples. They have safeguarded the world’s biggest tropical rainforest for 10,000 years. To create arable soil and sustain their populations, they cut and carbonized areas of the jungle, creating the “terra preta” (black earth) that remains on the riverbanks…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM This expressive watercolor captures a fleeting, intimate moment of everyday life. The focal point is the subject’s vibrant, fiery red hair, which serves as the emotional and visual heart of the piece. By masterfully combining “wet-on-wet” techniques with precise dry brushwork, I have emphasized the tactile contrast…
Artwork Description: Pussy Inversus serves as a radiography of the shocked soul, which is witnessing the cruelty of the world, blinkers removed. In the series “Cold Dinner,” the work is a reaction of the female character, experiencing the corpse left on the table among the rotten food and worm-penises in “Daisy as the Date and…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: Biodiversity reflects the intricate web of connections that sustains life in this planet. This 2 meters work invites the viewer to slowly walk along and notice its complexity and detailed surface. Layers of paint wash, brush strokes, pencil marks, as well as pastels lines are reference to the intricate connections…
