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Alfredo Ibañez (Fred)
I am Fred, an urban homo sapiens. I express myself through painting, trying to develop my consciousness in order to contemplate and understand the universe of which I am a part.
I live in the south of the planet, almost to the extreme, much further south than almost anywhere else; in a place without rivers, without mountains, without sea, and sometimes also without time and space.
The need to express myself through art has always been a constant.
My first approach to artistic expression came at the end of the last century, through my university studies, which led me to the profession of architect.
After that began a great fascination for cities, their functioning as the habitat of our species, their mysticism, their complexity, their creative capacity.
The deep knowledge of cities as cultural emergents and of the societies that inhabit them gives me the energy to create my works.
I believe that the creative act is a permanent process, it is what underlies it. The work emerges as an emergent from that, it doesn't stop. In my case, the creative process is structured with a multiplicity of stimuli, which come to a greater extent from other expressions of art, mainly music and literature.
At the same time, I feel art as a whole between the personal experience of exploring technique and the creative process in which the limits of the capacities of my mind and body are permanently expanded in the creative act.
My technique is entirely individual and constantly evolving, I work with acrylic paint, brush and many other elements on a rigid support that I produce by hand, which brings together unique characteristics of what I am continually developing as a creative process, I paint on the work, I remain literally leaning on it.
The works are a part of me that detaches itself. They are framed emotions that narrate what life is becoming.
I believe that art can contribute values that are fundamental for the growth of a society, such as freedom, solidarity and cooperation, and in this sense, language is a medium, a tool to express, and style is an intrinsic characteristic. Both are inevitable.
Art makes life emotionally sustainable.
