Alex Vargas

ALEX VARGAS
Chilean/Spanish
Born 25th April 1972, Santiago, Chile
Education / Experience:
At the age of nine he joined a group of clowns for three years performing in kids TV shows.
From 1985 to 1987 studied Fine Art at the Liceo Experimental Artistico in Chile. Moved to Spain in 1987 where he studied at Massana School of Fine Art, Barcelona from 1989 to 1994.
Alex has worked as a muralist for many clients around Europe; one notable mural is at Casa Batllo, a famed Gaudi landmark in Barcelona. Also designed sets at the Sala Becker, Barcelona. Lectured for a year in secondary school art courses on the creative process of idea development. He worked as an Art Director for TV advertising in Barcelona. Alex has exhibited his work in Spain and London.
He met the very influential and now late Roberto Matta in 1994. Matta's ideas and work reinforced many of Alex's concepts of matter and its ongoing transformational condition.
He met with Alejandro Jodorowsky in 2002, another pioneering figure who approaches art as a therapy to help achieve the freedom to act directly on personal impulse. Jodorowsky's methods, incorporating surrealism with direct aesthetic assaults and shocking juxtapositions on the cinema screen are also strong in...

1988-1994 School Massana of Fine Art, BA in Fine Arts
1984-1985 Liceo Experimental Artistic College

Exhibitions:
1990- Casa de Chile en Barcelona
1991- Galeria Lola Anglada, Barcelona
1992- Selected Artists 13th show of Young Artists of Generality of Catalonia (Regional Government)
1993- Sala Busquet (Scola Massana),Barcelona
1994- Galeria 5 Avenida, Barcelona.
1994-13 Muestra de Arte Joven, Centro Cultural San Andreu
1994- La Capella (Virreina Exhibitions), Barcelona
1995- Espacio Submarino, Barcelona
1996- Espacio Poble Nou, Barcelona
1997- La Rectoria Centre of Contemporary Art, Catalonia 1998-Sala La Cova del Drag, Catalonia
1999- La Santa Contemporary Art ( Art Council), Barcelona
2000- Stoke Newington Festival Collective Exhibition, London 2002- London Art Gallery, London
2003- Fresh Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2004- On the Wall Art Fair, Olympia, London
2005- Florence Fine Art Gallery, West End, London
2005- La Fabrica de Licors, Mallorca
2006- Art File Gallery, England
2007- Art Performance Angel Centre, London
2008- Art Commission for the Business Design Centre,London 2009- Art Performance, West End, London
2010-2014 Saatchi Online (permanent artist)
2011- Street Art Performance at Archway, London
2012- Art Performance at London Art Fair (commission), London 2013- Art Video Performance ...