Luis Alvarez

STATEMENT
I paint movement as a form of memory. In the city—crosswalks, lights, cars—I’m drawn to the anonymous choreography that gathers and disperses us: layers, glazes, and erasures that reveal the passage of time more than a fixed form. At the shoreline I work with open space and minimal marks: figures appear and fade on wet sand like possible presences. Between these two registers—the dense and the austere—I ask the same question: how do you paint what happens while it is happening? My work oscillates between figuration and abstraction to hold the pulse of the everyday: reflections, trajectories, pauses. I don’t portray places; I stage experiences—a weave of light and flow where the individual and the collective touch for an instant.

BIO
Luis Alvarez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is an Argentine visual artist whose career bridges painting, teaching, and artistic research. He was preselected for the 2025 National Visual Arts Salon (Argentina) and has been recognized in several prestigious competitions, including the XXVII Francisco de Zurbarán International Painting Prize (Fuente de Cantos, Spain), the Florencio Molina Campos Provincial Salon (2019), and the Biennial Premio Federal 2013, organized by the Federal Investment Council (CFI) in Buenos Aires.

His solo exhibition Nostalgias del presente was presented at the Exhibition Hall of the Secretariat of Culture of San Martín de los Andes, where he was also awarded the “Ciudad de Neuquén” Prize during the 4th Painting Encounter. Alvarez has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as Artistas emergentes (Secretariat of Culture, San Martín de los Andes), Noesfera (Contemporary Art, curated by Valeria Conte Mac Donell), and Potente y Despojado (curated by Ana Zitti).

Alvarez studied at the Fernando Fader Art-Oriented School and later joined the University of Buenos Aires as a faculty member in the Design Department of the Image and Sound Design program. There, he was part of a research group exploring digital sy...