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Gustavo Fares is a visual
artist, curator and critic, originally from Buenos Aires, 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 undertook 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
Andrew W. Mellon foundations.
He has exhibited his work in the United
States, Argentina, Spain, France, and Mexico.
In his works, Fares uses traditional materials, such as oil and acrylic on
canvas or paper, as well as computer generated images and collages.
Fares’
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 and to Oriental symmetries.
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