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My work mainly consists of painting, conducted through materials and mediums that have become a personal brand: synthetic enamel on iron sheet. Narration acts as a trigger, as a way to invite the viewer to take the time to access the deeper layers of an image. Or maybe to ensure that the viewer can project their own images through time, as a fundamental variable of approximation to the painting. In my works, the tension is not summed up by the dichotomy between figuration or abstraction, but rather it is paint as matter, with its formal qualities, with its expressive force, that takes center stage. Any submission to just the beauty of the motif has disappeared, and the recognizability stays in the background to highlight the accidents of paint, which sustains the shine of the enamel to display the beauty of chaos.

Bio
Hernán Salamanco (1974, Buenos Aires)
Hernán Salamanco was born in Buenos Aires in 1974 and studied at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón and the Royale Academie de Beaux Arts in Belgium. In 2000, he received the National Grant for Artistic Creation from the National Fund for the Arts, and in 2008, he achieved the 2nd Acquisition Prize at the LXII National Salon of Rosario at the Castagnino MACRO Museum. Among his solo exhibitions, notable ones include those held at Baro Cruz Gallery (São Paulo 2007), Braga Menéndez (Buenos Aires 2004/2006/2008), and Thomas Cohn Gallery (São Paulo 2002). For four years (1999-2002), he presented exhibitions at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, U.B.A., and at DUPLUS. In the 1990s, he was part of the group Ø cero barrado, exhibiting in various unconventional spaces within the art scene.

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