THE ARTISTS OF MYTHS: ANDRÉS SALAZAR
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| Andrés Salazar, self-portrait |
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Andrés Salazar began his self-taught artistic journey at an early age, absorbing from his surroundings the great vocation. That is the reason why he passionately ventures with his endeavors into multiple fields with notable success including painting, graphic design, advertising, set design, mural design, sculpture, and photography. Due to his wide artistic range, he was selected as a founding member of the Experimental Art Workshop of the National Institute of Culture and Fine Arts (INCIBA), the highest institution of its kind at the national level in Venezuela.
His eclectic approach has made him
successful in the field of graphic design, designing logos and brands for
products widely distributed in his country, including food products, record
labels, pharmaceuticals, etc., and as an illustrator of children's books by
renowned national authors. A participant of many prestigious National Art
Salons, he is included in the permanent collection of the MACCSI, the Sofía
Imber Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, at the time one of the most
prominent in Latin America.
Critics and authors write: “[Salazar’s] languages are interconnected and take on a kind of segmented whole where each fragment has an independent symbolic value, which at the same time can be in permanent rotation through the different phases of the plastic weave”; "... [In Salazar we find] the firm will to transform a considerable number of elements, where the presence of techniques, resources, shapes and textures are seen as expressions of his great versatility and creative passion."
Salazar's art is used in Myths of our Humanity to illustrate the vignettes THE BUBBLE and IT'S COOKING.
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| You scale, climb and descend from the unmeasurable (2022) |
Statement by the artist: “Not infrequently our mind plays to surprise us, it happens in sleepless nights and dreams. To make these almost magical states visible, we need to resort to collages, photographic or pictorial, as in this piece at the edge of pataphysics.”
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