Luis Castellanos Jara
Bio
He studied painting at Escuela Nacional de Bellas artes del Perú
Silver medal in drawing (1994) and "Work for Excellence" award (1996)
Since 2015 he is Ambassador of the Faber-Castell brand
Bachelor of Education from USIL
Workshops with artists Daniel Canogar and Mario Arroyabe
Diploma in Cultural Marketing
COLART training workshops in the Winsor & Newton brand, Bogotá (2016) and Liquitex, Santiago de Chile (2018)
Akademia Faber-Castell Workshops, Germany (2019)
Prize of the V ICPNA National Drawing Exhibition (1997), prize of the "II Contest of Plastic Arts" (1998) Board of Trustees of Telefónica, scholarship for a one-year stay in Europe
Exhibitions in the country and abroad, 13 individual exhibitions and more than 200 collective exhibitions, the most outstanding being:
Four decades of art in Perú 1960-2000. ICPNA Collection. Eduardo Sivori Museum. Buenos Aires, Argentina
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM PERU Arvada Center. Colorado, USA
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING: 20TH CENTURY Seville, Spain
Statement
Floating heads or faces stripped of their bodies are shown on the walls of my house and in my studio as if I were a monothematic painter or a portraitist of the most varied characters of a destroyed society, crushed and bored with the same as always.
In recent years, my discourse has focused on a single part of the human body, and when it appears floating without connection or stuck in a strange way, as alien or imposed reluctantly, it expresses almost nothing; perhaps this is how I perceive my reality, all floating in our sorrows and disappointments, all immersed in our times and feeding the desire that everything is fine and that our belonging remains intact despite ourselves.
Maybe this is just a way to put into words what I think I feel.
Maybe it's just a pretext to do something that works for me and gives me meaning.
Maybe they are just drawings.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
