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"El faro" Oil/canvas 30" x 40"
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HERIBERTO MONTOYA ORTIZ
He was born in Lota, an attractive mining and fishing village by the Pacific seashore, in Chile, on March 12th 1963, and he moved to Santiago with his father (a painter too, devoted to his career), who aroused his need to contact other masters of Chilean art. It is so that a friend of his father, the artist Sergio Vargas Quesada, discovered this young man's capabilities, and encouraged him to paint the different places of his country in his company, initiating him into the world of painting. When his father learned about his son's interests, he introduced to him a well-known colleague, the Hungarian painter Ladislao Cheney. He left his master's workshop to continue his open-air work with other artists, and he formed the group "Lautaro" with them. He made his first exhibition with this group in "La Casa del Corregidor" Museum, Santiago de Chile. He had his first individual contact with his public in the Toulouse Gallery of Las Condes, Santiago.
His artistic development in Argentina started in the Praxis Gallery in Mendoza. At the end of the eighties, he decided to move to Argentina, where he settled down at the south of Buenos Aires, in Guernica. He made contact with a group of Argentinean painters who shared his modality and charisma. He started to work with them in different places of Buenos Aires.
He soon became a well know artist in the Buenos Aires art world thanks to his original brush strokes and brilliant colors that are part of his unique style. In his own words, it’s important the "plain air" experience, having the subject in front of his eyes allows him to achieve a fresher, more vivid image.
The way he approaches his art is simple but not simplistic, following his own path, the same that romantics and impressionists did in the past, he tries not to succumb to more fashionable styles. His paintings are genuine, they come from his heart, every one of them is a feeling for him and for the viewer. He has the ability to transmit warmth.
Currently he is in Domburg, Netherland participating in a show. He also has an upcoming solo show in Buenos Aires in the Spring.
HERIBERTO MONTOYA ORTIZ
He was born in Lota, an attractive mining and fishing village by the Pacific seashore, in Chile, on March 12th 1963, and he moved to Santiago with his father (a painter too, devoted to his career), who aroused his need to contact other masters of Chilean art. It is so that a friend of his father, the artist Sergio Vargas Quesada, discovered this young man's capabilities, and encouraged him to paint the different places of his country in his company, initiating him into the world of painting. When his father learned about his son's interests, he introduced to him a well-known colleague, the Hungarian painter Ladislao Cheney. He left his master's workshop to continue his open-air work with other artists, and he formed the group "Lautaro" with them. He made his first exhibition with this group in "La Casa del Corregidor" Museum, Santiago de Chile. He had his first individual contact with his public in the Toulouse Gallery of Las Condes, Santiago.
His artistic development in Argentina started in the Praxis Gallery in Mendoza. At the end of the eighties, he decided to move to Argentina, where he settled down at the south of Buenos Aires, in Guernica. He made contact with a group of Argentinean painters who shared his modality and charisma. He started to work with them in different places of Buenos Aires.
He soon became a well know artist in the Buenos Aires art world thanks to his original brush strokes and brilliant colors that are part of his unique style. In his own words, it’s important the "plain air" experience, having the subject in front of his eyes allows him to achieve a fresher, more vivid image.
The way he approaches his art is simple but not simplistic, following his own path, the same that romantics and impressionists did in the past, he tries not to succumb to more fashionable styles. His paintings are genuine, they come from his heart, every one of them is a feeling for him and for the viewer. He has the ability to transmit warmth.
Currently he is in Domburg, Netherland participating in a show. He also has an upcoming solo show in Buenos Aires in the Spring.
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