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medieval 1 50 x 70 2018 tiragem 3 - Limited Edition 1 of 3 Photograph

Antonio Vargas

Brazil

Photography, Digital on Paper

Size: 19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.4 D in

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Based on conceptual issues of the contemporary grotesque, the work incorporates pictures by objects, insects, micro-organisms ,social behaviors and old art´s work ( like medieval prints) all of thus manipulated by digital softwares to discuss the perception of the image in the contemporary world. All of this works are in a limited edition printed in a photograph paper, numbered and signed. Subjets worked by Pop Art are very present in this works.For many years the theme of violence and sex emerged in my work and, except in some periods of greater formal experimentalisms, this theme has been constant to this day. Over time, more and more, I have been exploring aesthetic strategies so that both themes can be perceived only in the background of the observer's gaze when they are, in fact, always in forefront. On the images produced by me the appropriation and manipulation of digital images picked up via the internet is the way to build a new art works where violence and sex are present but hidden. Sometimes I do this with the use of strong colors, with a POP aesthetic, others by hiding the theme amid an abstract or romantic appearance. I believe that these strategies of concealment of themes, as a paradox as it may seem, are necessary to give conceptual consistency to the art work. The first is related to the discussions and speeches that these themes produce in those exposed to my work. As we know, sex and violence are not human cultural creations because they belong to nature, but what are cultural creations are the speeches that the human being uses to justify the practices of sex and violence that it performs. As a consequence, when the observer perceives one or both of these themes in my work they always express an opinion that reveals very much of the cultural values they have. In other words, the observer comes out of a passive and comfortable position and reveals themselves. They become active, exposing themselves, building, and adding to the various meanings of the work.

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Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:3

Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.4 D in

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I am a Brazilian artist who grows up like an artist during the 80'years. That time I lived and studied in Spain where I win an honor mention in sculpture and did a PhD in Arts. Since 1993 I live again in Brazil where I am professor at university and I work especially with painting, sculpture and photography manipulated by digital software and my work has different influences like neo-expressionism in painting or the Brazilian neo-concretism in digital photos, but also I have influences from Freud, Chagal, Basquiat, Chuck Connely, Baselitz, Rauschenberg and Warhol. is proposed in most of my work to discuss the contemporary image reception on the visual means (being on television, internet, advertise boards or on artistic objects) through concept questioning such as perception, identity, passivity, dormancy and mainly between pleasure and repulsion. In a grotesque image, the beauty disguises the improbable, sordid and stupidity. When it is looked at a grotesque image, the pleasure and happiness present themselves at the first moment. Born: Brazil, 1961. Education: Facultad de Bellas Artes /Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Spain , PhD (1992) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul-UFRGS-Brazil (1986) Media: sculpture, painting, digital print, multimidia, costume, scenography. Contact information: Rodovia Haroldo Soares Glavan 1093 casa 06 Florianopolis SC-Brazil. e-mail: acvargass@gmail.com Skype: acvargass Phone: 55 48 991077999

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