Samuel Salcedo

SAMUEL SALCEDO (Barcelona, 1975).
"Friends", 2001.
Oil on board.
Signed on the back.
Measurements: 207 x 180 cm.
Samuel Salcedo began his artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona and at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Fine Arts. Despite adopting different techniques in his artistic work, he defines himself as a sculptor, following his own words "The plastic artist sounds a bit bombastic to me. Although for a long time I exhibited only paintings, my food work and my social security card was sculptor. Now I keep saying it because, sometimes, the designation of plastic artist puts you in a context in which many people do not know how to place you, especially people outside the art world." His work is characterized by portraying the human being from a point of view in which his emotions are magnified, and even ridiculed. Through a completely contemporary aesthetic Samuel Salcedo presents the reactions produced by different states of mind. Exploring the field of humor he alludes to "I have been developing it because I understood that it helps to attenuate a certain aggressiveness in my work and to place it in the context I feel it has to be in. There can't be only aggressiveness, there can't be, there has to be both, and this is precisely what is disconcerting".
Samuel Salcedo has had several solo exhibitions including the 3Punts Gallery in Barcelona and Gemenie Spezies, Galerie Robert Drees in Hannover 100Kubik Gallery in Cologne, Fernando Latorre Gallery in Madrid and Frédéric Got Fine Art Gallery in Paris among others.