CRISTOBAL
ANWANDTER
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cristobal Anwandter was born in 1980 in Chile where he is based today. His work has been critically acclaimed throughout South America winning the first prize in the ‘Recrea-arte Award’ from the Amigos del Arte Foundation in Chile. Cristobal was one of the artists selected to represent South American Art at the Korean International Art Fair in Seoul and since then he has continued to exhibit internationally and his work has been shown and collected in Sweden, Argentina, Germany, China, Spain, Korea, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Synthesis, definition, tidiness, and audacity are all elements interacting in a sort of counterpoint in Anwandter’s work. The figure and the way of painting are both the main characters in his work, yet mutually dependent on each other, interweaving back and forth with accents and silences. His subjects are depicted in atemporal spaces so as not to distract us with anecdotes suggesting different emotional scenarios. His paintings call to our attention in gestures and textures. His technical prowess is extraordinary, exhibiting many different strokes: from the heavy paintbrush to the lightest whisper of touch, all interacting with the smoothness of the spatula. Glazings and layers of direct paint create sensations that sensually reveal to us the diaspora of chromatic scope, a land of vibrant colour existing in between warmth and cold.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work consists mainly in generating images by making two different processes interact randomly: the repetition of visual patterns that have been generated in a mechanical and analog fashion, and the modification of those patterns through the application of visual logics that aim to deconstruct and humanize process and outcome.
The origins of these patterns are varied: programming code, the geometry of ancient cultures, demographic and topographic schemes, fractals or optical effects, and much more. They are subjected to interventions typical of gestural analog painting, which incorporate a stronger deconstructive impulse.
The random interaction and superposition of both processes aims to create an ambiguous image that invites reflection on the boundaries between figure and background, order and accident. It’s an attempt to generate rhythms that break apart irregularly, and to create tensions and areas of rest. Symbolically, it appears to be related to the constant contradictions of contemporary life, where the ways in which digital and analog interact constantly transform our understanding of nature and what is natural.
"My work consists mainly in generating images by making two different processes interact randomly: the repetition of visual patterns that have been generated in a mechanical and analog fashion, and the modification of those patterns through the application of visual logics that aim to deconstruct and humanize process and outcome."
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