Diego Santa María
Bio
Santiago, Chile, 1982
Study Fine Arts Universidad Católica from Chile. Of his participations in individual exhibitions, "I don't know if your paintings are appearing or disappearing" stand out, in Animal Gallery (Chile, 2011) and A tunnel under the bed if necessary in Armada Gallery (Chile, 2013), Coastal Edge in NAC Gallery (Chile, 2016), Club Social y Deportivo Porvenir at the QN Contemporary Art Museum (Chile, 2017) and Neighborhood Cooperation Agency at Galería Tajamar (Chile, 2018). Fe, Galeria NAC, Chile (2019). Bimer, Residence in Dos mares, Marseille, France (2019).The Bad is brief and here I am, Marisol project, Santiago, Chile (2020).
Among her collective exhibitions: Ejercicio Retrato at MAC de Valdivia (Chile, 2009), Songs of love and other passions of romantic origin at Loewenthal Gallery (Chile, 2012), MAVI-escondida contest selection (Chile, 2014) and Sub 30 at the MAC of Quinta Normal (Chile, 2015).
Statement
His work is articulated through composition methods that place the artist as a recognizer of fragments that could behave as surfaces loaded with, on the one hand, graphic and pictorial conditions, and on the other, evocative conditions typical of the things affected. by the time. Among his works are objects with surfaces of their own interest and out of context, constructions made with collected objects and paintings that through materiality try to replicate the wear and tear of time through the insistent exercise of erasing over and over again to start over. .
Additional information
Como lo industrial se relaciona con lo orgánico y dialogan ambos universos. Piezas de níquel asemejan corales y a un universo marino representando el borde costero.
