Gustavo Fares:
Gustavo Fares is a visual artist from Argentina, residing
in the United States since 1985.
Fares holds a Professor Degree in Painting and Drawing from
the "Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon"
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He undertaook post- graduate studies
at the "Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la
Carcova" in the same city. After settling in the United
States, Fares completed a Master in Painting and Lithography
at West Virginia University, and Ph. D. Certificate in Cultural
Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. There he received
grants from the Tinker and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
He has exhibited his paintings in the United States, Argentina,
Spain and Mexico.
In his works, Fares uses traditional materials, such as oil
and acrylic on canvas or paper, as well as computer generated
images. Fares’ current visual interests include the
exploration of imagery linked to Latin American marginal representations
of the Sacred, of the limits and possibilities of painting
as a medium, and of topological spaces as they relate to the
philosophy of language.
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