The choice Painting

ALEX VARGAS Chilean/Spanish Born 25th April 1972, Santiago, Chile Education / Experience: At the age of nine he joined a group of clowns for three years performing in kids TV shows. From 1985 to 1987 studied Fine Art at the Liceo Experimental Artistico in Chile. Moved to Spain in 1987 where he studied at Massana School of Fine Art, Barcelona from 1989 to 1994. Alex has worked as a muralist for many clients around Europe; one notable mural is at Casa Batllo, a famed Gaudi landmark in Barcelona. Also designed sets at the Sala Becker, Barcelona. Lectured for a year in secondary school art courses on the creative process of idea development. He worked as an Art Director for TV advertising in Barcelona. Alex has exhibited his work in Spain and London. He met the very influential and now late Roberto Matta in 1994. Matta's ideas and work reinforced many of Alex's concepts of matter and its ongoing transformational condition. He met with Alejandro Jodorowsky in 2002, another pioneering figure who approaches art as a therapy to help achieve the freedom to act directly on personal impulse. Jodorowsky's methods, incorporating surrealism with direct aesthetic assaults and shocking juxtapositions on the cinema screen are also strong influences. Since 1999 lives and works in London currently developing an art short film, Field of Dissonance, the first of a cycle of films to explore dimensions of life, evolution and individual experience as eternal processes through large-scale frameworks of time. The promotional short for Field of Dissonance is here: http://vimeo.com/74304740
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