Luis Salas

Luis Salas van der Meer is a visual artist and independent researcher. He has worked on the development and production of various interactive works of visual perception at the Museo Interactivo Mirador (MIM), Santiago de Chile. He has worked as a professor and directed various workshops at the School of Visual Arts Education and Teaching at the Universidad Viña del Mar, Chile: “Free Sculpture Workshop”, “Experimental Techniques Workshop II”, “Production Workshop I”, “Production Workshop II”, “Integrated Specialty Workshop”, “Drawing and Graphic Expression Workshop” and “Drawing and Painting Workshop”. His works cross different genres of the visual arts. These assemblages are translated into installations, environments or spatial interventions. He uses countless formal resources, contemporary visual operations and new technologies: artificial light, sound and mechanical phenomena of visual perception. He also incorporates painting, drawing, photography, video, objects, collage, assemblage and sculpture. Along with this multidisciplinary search, themes such as territory, identity in space, the debate between art and politics, poetry and city, art and education are incorporated.

He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso, Chile. He also studied Naval Construction Engineering at the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), Industrial Design at the Universidad de Valparaíso (UV), Chile; Pedagogy in Visual Arts at the Universidad de Playa Ancha (UPLA), Chile and a diploma in Iconology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV).

Exposiciones Individuales:
2022: “Cuerpos Reflectantes”, (montaje visual), Sala Laboratorio, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (PCdV), Valparaíso.
2015: “500 Plumas en un Cuerpo Geométrico”, (intervención en el humedal de Concón), Proyecto Terroir 2.0, ArteInSitu (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Concón, Valparaíso.
2014: “Museo Imposible”, Galería Urbana, Valdivia.
2013: “Código de Barras de la Vida”, “Pintura Lumínica” (exposición permanente) Edificio Corporativo CONICYT, Santiago.
2012: “Estudiantes Pobres de Santiago”, Vitrina “Al Paso”, Valparaíso.
2008: “Los Hawker Hunters”, Galería del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Valparaíso.
2006: “La Línea del Tiempo” (instalación), Biblioteca de Santiago.
2004: “La Ciudad Sumergida”, Galería de Artes Visuales h-10, Valparaíso.
2002: “Fragmentos Visuales”, Colegio Alianza Francesa Lycée Jean d´Alembert, Reñaca, Viña del Mar.
2001: “Mapa Imaginario de Valparaíso”, Galería de Arte Villa Toscana, Valparaíso.
1999: “Vistas Urbanas” (fragmentos de Valparaíso), Centro Cultural de Viña del Mar.
1993: “El Signo y la Línea”, Instituto de Arte, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (UCV).
1989: “Muerte Prematura”, Colectivo Sadomasoquista con Maniquí Ruso, Centro Cultural Va...