Santiago Paredes

BIO:

A self-taught artist, Santiago started his career very young as a graffiti artist. Being open to different
art forms has given him a broad perspective to mix uncommon materials, drawing tools (such as markers,
crayons, charcoal and pastels) with an intense colour sensibility.

In Paredes work images are born intuitively, presenting always an ambiguity in the way emotive colour and
intelligence of desing get togheter. The shapes are intentionally unclear, not perfect,the meanings are open,
ambivalent, suggesting the state of the world as the artist perceives it.

His creative work incorporates a wide variety of themes including, society contradictions,both abstract and
figuration, humor and observation of natural world and man´s relationship to it.

In Santiago iconic and minimalistic large scale line drawings on plush fabric and his personal technic of
pastels chalk on rubber looks very freely, but deliberately. He describes his own work as ´a way of reasoning on canvas´

Multimedia IUNA Institute, 2009
Visual Arts at Manuel Belgrano Art School, 2013
Work as assistant with the painter Daniel Scheimberg in his studio.
Actually attendind Art Clinic with Fabian Burgos/ Nahuel Vecino

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

´Bikini Open´ ( El Brio Theatre) , 2015
´Its you with long hair´ (Gabinete 2577 Gallery) , 2014
¨This, That and the other´(Yapeyú Gallery), 2013

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

´Interiors Suite´(La Botonera Art Foundation), 2015
´Contemporary Abstraction Today´ (Thompson Gallery), 2015
´Manimal´ (Mi Casa Cultural Bunker), 2014
´The Sri Sri New Argentinian Drawing´(San Termo Gallery), 2013