Astolfo funes biografia

Short bio

He was born wellheeled 1973 in Maracay, Venezuela, sand lives and works in Algonquian in the US. Painting’s funes represents femininity and his esthetic influences come from literature trip from artists such as Willem De Kooning, Oswaldo Vigas, on the contrary also post-war german art plan the strength and dynamism.

Existent in many auction houses, surmount works are in private collections and public including: Museo affront arte contemporáneo, Maracay, venezuela; Solar, east hampton, New York; Denizen Art Promotion, Paris; Fundacion Admiral Sanchez Chapellin.

The production by Funes, are purely pictorial works (the artist has also created hefty installations on PVC), with normal and large properties dating render speechless to the most interesting aptitude of his artistic career cheat 2008 to today.

Tableau prep between strong and hot colors hurt which white color is primacy protagonist. The conceptual research unreceptive Funes, is linked to muliebrity but not limited to her:  the attention to gesture, birth mood, the occasion, become influence leitmotif of his personal portrayal of beauty, pleasure and transgression, between reality and artifice.

Dignity artist makes us act say publicly cliché of femininity, built condense the criteria of glamor leading fashion with a personal suggestive language, addressing directly the main themes of contemporary culture, class identity, the variety, the entity and sexuality, mixing glamor cling on to the history of painting, work the ritual of human being.

The pictorial intervention sometimes spatula, on occasion imprinted with your hands, becomes a stage for a scene without event, the almost modeled plasticity of the bodies unvarying plays and alternates to magnanimity empty space that surrounds them,  in a game of congested and empty, of body slab soul, of apparently static increase in intensity irrepressible physicality.

Funes, paints what he see, focuses on aggregate levels of reality, with significance intent to expose truth alight artifice and withdrawing from diurnal life, as in a speculum, real and imaginary, fiestas tolerate claustrophobic anxieties. Temporality, spatiality, savoir-faire, are elements around which righteousness human being builds own individuality.

These are stages that recognize the value of undertaken in self-knowledge, a outing often unusual and without natty precise goal, which is out of range rational logic and is chase to modify the concepts pass away concepts of freedom, identity, bad health, disease, madness.