Dutchman Painting

Juan Carter whose artistic pseudonym is “El Gato” is an artist-architect-illustrator originally from Chile. He has been living in Europe for more than 30 years, two years in Holland, two years in France with the remaining time in Barcelona, Spain, the city which provided him with the main influences and ideas for his bizarre artwork. He was working in humour illustration in Chile in the 1980's, where he was one of the principal caricaturists of the Pinochet dictatorship, as well as working as a designer/artist in many important design competition events. His paintings are in acrylic, depicting a combination of nature and architecture, which he describes as "genetic architecture", a view of a future world where the buildings are growing from nature, similar to a Gaudi dream.