Araceli Castañeda
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Araceli Castañeda is a Canary Islands artist, born and educated in Gran Canaria in Fine Arts and Design. From 2007 to 2010 she deepened her theoretical and painterly studies in artistic ceramics. Her practice ranges from realism to recent movements such as Pop Art and Minimalism, working with mixed techniques, diverse materials and varied supports. The paintings in this exhibition revisit Canarian customs and ancient symbols, translating the archipelago’s primal imagery into contemporary colour with a fresh, pop-urban sensibility.
Other works from the artist
El salto del pastor looks back to a time when people crossed the steep green ridges of the Canarian mountains using a long, metal-tipped pole to vault from peak to peak without descending. Here, that ...
Surfeando looks back to the first wave of young travellers who reached the Canarian shores in the 1960s—living out of vans, chasing good swells and a freer life shaped by the era’s hippie spirit. Thei...