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Oscar Capeche

santiago, metropolitana, Chile

Art is not for me a profession, not even a job, it is simply a way of being and living, a space in w...

About the artist

Oscar Capeche

Joined In 2016

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(4 Followers)

About the artist

Oscar Capeche

Joined In 2016

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(4 Followers)

ABOUT
EXHIBITIONS
RECOGNITION

Art is not for me a profession, not even a job, it is simply a way of being and living, a space in which I feel safe, an escape from the madness, channeling my emotions and instincts a move away from sterile noise, an attempt to build a complementary universe, an experiment of creating own images, a break free of them and deliver them if anyone would come. And fundamentally the attempt to capture my own judgment of beauty.

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1944. Since I was a child I felt a strong attraction to the shapes and colors of the world around me, but I assumed what was expected of student conventional training, and son who dares not to rebel. At 22 I decided to abandon my studies in architecture and from that moment my training was essentially self-taught, absorbing avidly orientation of free workshops masters of Argentina painting, which I attended in the late sixties. It was instrumental in my early conception of art as a synonym of freedom and personal expression that conveyed my first teacher, the painter Demetrio Urruchúa in his workshop in Buenos Aires. In my more than 40 years of concentrated and passionate work, I stubbornly dedicated to my work evolve towards an expressive art and collecting vital sign...

2008
2014 permanent exhibition at Galleria Dante. P.V. Jalisco, Mexico.
2005
Galeria Dante, P.V. Jalisco, Mexico.
2004
Galeria Dante, P.V. Jalisco, Mexico.
2003
Latin American Art Gallery P.V. Jalisco, Mexico.
1998
Latin American Art Gallery, P.V. Jalisco. Mexico.
1998
Year stay in Mexico.
1994
Galeria La Galeria, Santiago de Chile.
1992
Galeria La Galeria, Santiago de Chile.
1983
Visual Arts Museum Quilmes, Buenos Aire.
1983
Spain travel year.
1982
Galeria Goya, Buenos Aires.
1981
Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires.
1979
Gallery Carcova, Buenos Aires.
1976
Visual Arts Museum Quilmes, Buenos Aires.
1976
Visual Arts Museum Quilmes, Buenos Aires.
1975
Galeria Casa del Chaco, Buenos Aires.
1974
Galeria Goya, Buenos Aires.
1973
Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires

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