Hernán Salamanco
Bio
He studied at the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredon", in the workshop of Juan Duarte in Buenos Aires, and as a lithographer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Since 2002 he has been working with gallery representation in Buenos Aires: Braga Menendez, SlyZmud and currently Smart Gallery and until 2011 also in São Paulo with Thomas Cohn, Baró Cruz and Oscar Cruz. He made individual exhibitions in each of them and in the Recoleta Cultural Center (2015), the Borges Cultural Center (2013) and the MACRO museum in Rosario (2013), these of an institutional nature.
Regarding his participation in collective exhibitions, he presented works together with his contemporaries at MAMBA, MALBA, Fundación Proa, CCEBA, Rojas, CCK, Fundación Telefónica and other exhibitions in London, New York, Santiago de Chile and the interior of Argentina.
Statement
As an artist in constant production for more than two decades, his painting has gone through different themes and pictorial styles. Perhaps its most characteristic feature is the use of used sheet metal and synthetic enamel. These materials, which frequently describe scenes of an interior or exterior landscape, without human presence, of strange familiarity and in different degrees of figuration, attribute to it the fundamental qualities of the contemporary work of art: singularity, personal style, original and attractive rarity eccentricity.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
