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Santiago Licata

BornNationalityBased In
1986ArgentinianN/A
Biography

Santiago Licata pursued studies of Visual Arts at IUNA between 2006 and 2008. He furthered his education through various workshops, including woodcut techniques with Juan Sebastián Carnero, laboratory and photography with Omar Conde Agesta, writing with Silvia Gurfein, workshop and artistic clinic with Patricio Larrambebere, and drawing with Eduardo Stupía at the Di Tella University. In 2014, he received the Chandon Acquisition Prize at arteBA, and in 2017, he was selected to participate in the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial. His work has been exhibited at fairs and shows in Mexico City, New York, Minneapolis, and Buenos Aires, and his pieces are part of public and private collections in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Buenos Aires. Santiago explores the expressive capabilities of drawing and painting, juxtaposing geometry and organic forms to enhance the strangeness generated by a precise image in its execution but with ambiguous interpretation, positioning itself between the feasible and the fantastic, between planimetry and illusion. Created with chalk, graphite, ferrite, and sometimes beeswax and synthetic enamel, Santiago Licata's works are characterized emerges without planning. Light moves from figuration to pure matter and from matter to phenomenon. It undergoes a conversion from beam-to-image / image-to-beam, which merges to generate a nebula charged with nuances, subtlety, and brightness. In this way, light acquires its own behavior, gaining a body, an entity, eyes, and features. ...

Selected Artworks
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Santiago Licata
Untitled, 2023
42 x 30 x 2cm
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Santiago Licata
Untitled, 2023
205 x 130 x 5cm
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Santiago Licata
Untitled, 2022
42 x 30 x 2cm
Vacantes
Santiago Licata
Vacantes, 2024
11 x 13 x 27cm
Vacantes
Santiago Licata
Vacantes, 2024
11 x 14 x 28cm
Vacantes
Santiago Licata
Vacantes, 2024
11 x 17 x 29cm
Preocupantes VIII
Santiago Licata
Preocupantes VIII, 2024
50 x 31 x 2cm
Preocupantes II
Santiago Licata
Preocupantes II, 2024
50 x 31 x 2cm
Preocupantes I
Santiago Licata
Preocupantes I, 2024
51 x 31 x 2cm
Preocupantes V
Santiago Licata
Preocupantes V, 2024
78 x 31 x 2cm
Chalecito
Santiago Licata
Chalecito, 2024
178 x 335 x 5cm
Gallery Representation
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