Fausto Amundarain

Fausto Amundarain is an artist whose research is based on a wide range of references. He uses elements from comics and caricatures as pictorial language for his images, among other things. In doing so, he reflects on the history of these elements, which are already nostalgic in nature and present in collective memory. But Amundarain does not just collect these elements, images and pictograms to explore their history and social significance, but above all to create his own images and structures, which he usually presents in a condensed and saturated form. He literally creates spaces in which the images communicate with each other, but in which you also constantly lose and rediscover them. In the process, paths to new stories open up, and that is ultimately what really interests the Venezuelan artist. His works are spaces of transformation. By deconstructing the basic composition, adding and removing elements, and using lines to compose and redevelop the whole, the artist manages to completely change the meaning of the original images, tearing them out of context and transforming them into something new that seems to be constantly changing.

Fauto Amundarain studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA, and lives and works in Madrid. He is represented in galleries in Spain, Venezuela and Germany and also works as an artist curator.