AROL ART

AROL ART - Crowned

Técnica: Oil on table

Biografía del Artista: Born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between pencils and Legos, he realized that creativity was as necessary for him as breathing. As a teenager, surrounded by vinyl records and guitars, he began studying graphic design and after receiving his degree in 1996, he took his first steps in advertising agencies in his city, until founding his own visual communication studio. In 2003, in search of new challenges, he traveled to Spain where he has resided ever since and began to enjoy the professional path as a freelance art director and graphic designer. Although art has always been one of his great loves since he was a child, in this country he had the opportunity to focus more on artistic work such as illustration, doing work for both the international publishing area and for the textile sector, creating prints for various Spanish brands. Despite having flirted with digital art since the 90s, it was not until 2010 that he decided to develop as an artist using pop surrealism as a language and creating his work 100% with a computer, until 2017 when he opened himself to the wonderful experience of painting in a traditional way, using mostly oil on wood, exhibiting in various galleries and art festivals nationally and internationally. In 2018 he took his first steps in the customization of Art Toys, making unique pieces and later the limited edition of a sculpture toy, which led him to create his first sculptures in epoxy putty in 2019 and 2020 and later in polymer clay. Currently his work is exhibited and in private collections on five continents.

Through the play of light and shadow, of spotlight and backlight, in an almost theatrical staging, my work as a whole sinks its roots in a surreal, dreamlike, symbolic language that launches, without filters and without any reason or reason, the images that I rescue from the recesses of the unconscious. Characters as tender as they are disturbing, in isolated environments and represented in their own existence, create at times a personal mythology within this unconscious universe. Many of them with an innocent appearance, at a closer look, reveal to us that child, often wounded, that lives in all of us. This immediate recognition provokes an interpretation that oscillates between creative sweetness and harmful power in a duality present in nature itself, as beautiful as it is destructive. The aesthetic truth of my visual metaphors comes from an intimate truth, always attracted by the emotional world, by my curiosity and concern towards the personal universe that nests within us and that acts as a trigger for the work, as a spring, at the same time, of a cathartic process of one's own internal transmutation.