Teran

TERÁN (Chile, 1974).
"Tribute to Banksy", Series "Tribute to the geniuses", 2023.
Oil on canvas.
Signed on the side.
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm.
In this work, Terán subtly reinterprets one of the most recognizable icons of contemporary urban art "Ballon Gir" whose silhouette first appeared as graffiti on a wall on London's Southbank in 2002.
As noted in the exhibition catalog Tribute to the Geniuses, Terán proposes the return of painting as a symbolic and conceptual strategy. His works function as conscious pastiches that do not seek to copy, but to pay homage: a declaration of admiration for fundamental artists in the history of art. Among them are names as diverse as Francis Bacon, Banksy, Chagall, Dubuffet, Fontana, Goya, Freud, Haring, Hockney, Warhol, Picasso or Pollock, forming a universe as broad as it is personal. This heterogeneity, far from responding to fashions or stylistic genealogies, reveals a free look that transcends categories, styles and chronologies, reinforcing the idea that there is no such thing as "art" but artists.
Terán is a Chilean artist living in Spain, with a degree in Fine Arts and a solid international career. Since his appearance at the Salón de Otoño del Círculo de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile in 1995, he has developed an intense exhibition activity in Latin America and Europe, combining visual arts and new technologies applied to art. His work has been recognized with important awards, among them the one granted by the Real Academia de San Carlos de Valencia in 2004, consolidating him as a relevant figure of the contemporary art scene.