sebastian
Riffo Montenegro

Visual artist born in Chile. He has a degree in Design and works as an Art Director in the area of marketing and advertising. Along with this activity, it maintains a solid production of works of art that criticize the consumer society and the creation of social beliefs. Disposable artificial products that envelop and define the behavior of man, very worked images that we see in different media but that have a programmed expiration. By passing these images to a pictorial work they lose their expiration and become timeless reflections of consumption.Faceless figures in raincoats maneuver through deconstructed color-field backgrounds. Working with a selective palette and controlled lighting, Montenegro-Riffo reveals the intent of his work through veils of lucid colors and mysterious forms. Absence paradoxically presents clear criticism of current social mores. Through pictorial allegories, the paintings provoke the need to discern new meaning and awaken the tacit human condition of free will.