Cristóbal Anwandter was born in 1980. Since his early childhood he showed affinity with the arts,which led him to begin his formal training in 1998, coming into contact with several painters of the figurative-academic area in order to acquire a complete and integrating formation, complementing it with advanced human figure and philosophy courses.

In 2001 he travels to Mexico City, where he exchanges experiences with Mexican painters, sharing perceptions about Latin American figurative art, and ultimately exhibiting his work in a two-nation (Mexico-Chile) show.

Select group exhibitions

2002: “ De punta a punta: Chile – México ” Galería José Clemente Orozco de la ENP, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México.
2002: “Colectiva de Becados ” Fundación Amigos del Arte, Santiago de Chile.
2004: “Arte y Ciudad” Galería Cecilia Palma, Santiago de Chile.
2005: “Figura Humana” Galería A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago de Chile.
2007: "En Torno a la Figura" Galería A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago de Chile.
2007: "Falsifiquémonos" Galería Trece, Santiago de Chile.
2008: "Exposición Nokia" Galería Artium, Santiago de Chile.
2009: ARTEBA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009: CHACO Santiago de Chile.
2010: "En torno al collage" Galería A.M.S Marlborough, Santiago de Chile .

Solo exhibitions

2004: “A propósito de la pintura” Galería A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago de Chile.
2006: “Pintura” Galería A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago de Chile.

Awards

2001: Primer Lugar Concurso de pintura “Re Crea Arte” Fundación Amigos del Arte, Santiago de Chile.
2002: Es ganador de la Beca de la Fundación Amigos del Arte, Santiago de Chile.

Anwandter’s work transits through contemporary figuration and from there he presents us with his painting subjective view and execution, and in this case, the human figure.
Synthesis, definition, tidiness, and audacity are all elements interacting in a sort of counterpoint in his painting. Here is the source of the contemporariness in the fusion between his own elements and the heirs of different schools where figurations have lived.
The human figure and the way of painting are both the main characters and mutually dependent, interweaving back and forth with accents and silences.
Figure, subject, amidst an ontological quest - unquestioned, unanswered. Only proposals stemming from its own life perception; from living.
Subjects depicted in atemporal spaces so as not to distract us with anecdotes suggesting different emotional scenarios.
A painting that can leave no one indifferent because it gives way to a dialogue that requires no elaborate or descriptive scenes.
Different genres and life stages in suspended states, simply being. Isn’t the human figure the element par excellence where we recognize ourselves, the universal language?
There is the human being, with his life experiences and feelings, facing the other who sees himself in the mirror of his own reality.
The painting calls our attention in gestures and textures, exhibiting different strokes: from the gross paintbrush to the lightest brush, interacting with the spatula move, gushes and more uncontrollable stains.
Glazings and direct painting create sensations that sensually reveal chromatic games between warm and cold.
Different approaches to the painting tell about a plastic search, a strictly pictorial interest, validating the painting and emphasizing the endless ways of becoming sensitive with and through it.

Alfonso Peró.

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