Carlos Capelan

Untitled #94037 and Untitled Contemporary Mixed Media Painting on Canvas

1994

Carlos Capelán is an uruguayan artist with a global perspective. His extensive work started with studies in Sweden leading to a professor´s position in the prestigious Vestland´s art academy in Norway. The language that operates in Capelan´s work is the perspective of being such a traveler and a participant in the process of exile; and representing through different styles and formats, breaking this way the traditional perspective of art. His exhibitions have reached countries like Chile, France, Italy and Spain. Capelán's work stands out for its rigorous handling of diverse artistic techniques and procedures, ranging from drawing to installation, including painting, printmaking, photography, and the manipulation of objects. The variety of expressive resources is matched by the multiplicity of interpretations his work evokes in the viewer. Capelán is a nomadic artist who transcends the boundaries of artistic languages ​​as a way of questioning and crossing other boundaries: the political, economic, and cultural ones that compartmentalize our worldview. Carlos Capelán develops an artistic production with an anthropological bent and a great sensitivity to contemporary issues—related to the political, the social, and the territorial—working in diverse techniques and formats—painting, drawing, printmaking, objects, performances, photography, installations—transforming his artworks into "habitats" characterized by cultural hybridization and synthesis.