Felipe Castro: Eclectic Artwork – Inform Journal

His photos present his inside world. Proprietor of nice creativity, his works have used completely different strategies through the years: oil and acrylic on canvas, collage intervention, engraving, woodcut and oil on coated paper. “Artwork is a race towards time. All of the concepts I’ve to implement, I don’t wait.”

By Macarena Ríos R./ Images by Javiera Díaz de Valdés

For Felipe (55) there are two sorts of painters: “those that paint and at all times develop the identical language for many years and others who change just like the climate and are open to different strategies .” It belongs to the latter.

“For me, artwork is a means through which I can categorical my inside world with my lights and shadows … additionally it is a ardour, a lifestyle, and I take it as a 24- 7 with out a lot relaxation; “You’re employed ten to make one.”

Below the affect of the surrealists, in his works he started to make use of completely different strategies comparable to contacthe smoking and the collage, in addition to free affiliation. Self-taught at first, he was a disciple of Ernesto Banderas, Eduardo Vilches, Mario Soro and Mario Vergara. Over time he sculpted his expertise and creativity, two adjectives that made him create a reputation inside the nationwide artwork circuit.

When he found the monocopy and the woodcut, graphics had been added to his work and he started to make much less colourful works.

Is an artist born or made?
I feel you are born with that situation of being an artist and, at a sure level, and due to some social stress, you resolve if you are going to be it pursue professionally or simply as a pastime. In my private case, on the age of fourteen I made the choice to dedicate myself to portray.

You describe your self as “latest-new-new-renewed-surreal,” though you have mentioned that this motion does not outline you. What’s that time period about?
That time period occurred to me whereas I used to be giving an interview to a digital journal, within the yr 2000, and I may add in the present day that I describe myself as such and with a contact of visible selection. All through my profession I used such strategies contacthe smoking, psychological automation, free connection. I went to sleep with the lectern in entrance of the mattress and with out coming down once I wakened I painted my inside picture, my psychological panorama, I went in quest of the unknown and the river .

What supplies do you employ to your creations?
Lately I’ve been devoted to grease and acrylic on completely different helps: wooden, paper and cloth, nonetheless, oil on coated paper with 300 grams is what fits me greatest in the intervening time.

What motivates you?
I’m impressed by the good inside world through which I stay, the place I discover all the sunshine and shadows of my situation as an individual. The skin world has stopped being thrilling to me due to the dearth of stability I see and, then again, I see the inside world as one thing very sturdy, secure and , the reality is, I’m fascinated by the truth that I perceive extra concerning the human situation figuring out that I can stay in my private world with a couple of interactions with the opposite world a- out.

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Felipe was born in Santiago, however in 2003 he went to stay in Pucón, the place he lived for fifteen years. In 2019 he moved to the Valparaiso Area and located the Los Pinos area an ideal place to stay, develop his artwork and provide portray and carving workshops.

As we speak there’s a gallery workshop the place he provides a platform to a number of artists from the realm. “My dream was to have a spot of my very own, in addition to spreading the artwork circuit and right here I’m. “I am a type of uncommon instances who could make a dwelling from artwork in Chile as a result of I have been following. “

How is your artistic course of?
Each day I made a decision to color as many hours as I may to attempt to develop all of the concepts I’ve. Generally I observe the sequence I have been doing, different occasions I check out new strategies and themes.

Who’re your references?
Víctor Brauner, Roberto Matta, Yves Tanguy and Peter Birkhauser.

What do you are feeling when you find yourself presenting?
After I current I really feel like one cycle closes and one other cycle begins.

How do you see the nationwide artwork tour?
I see the nationwide artwork tour from my submarine with my periscope as a really small and aggressive factor, which is rising yr after yr and which is sweet. After all, there are nationwide artists who’re excellent of their types and, clearly, irrespective of how small, distribution overseas is vital.

What’s arising for this second semester?
I’m organizing a powerful exhibition of portray and drawing right here on the gallery and, for October, to commemorate the centenary of the discharge of the primary Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 by André Bretón, on the I ready a shock.