Carlos Solis

By LatAm ARTE

Carlos Solis is a curator and the founder of the Latin American artist collective “Contrapunto”. Solis has curated several shows including Blackness in Latin America which premiered in New York, moved to Chicago, New Mexico, and ended in Atlanta, and Surrealist Apparatus which travelled along the east coast of the United States. Born in 1966, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Solis lived in Venezuela until 1990 when he relocated to Chicago, IL where he studied Graphic Design at College of DuPage. In 2006, he moved to Atlanta where a few years later he dedicated his life to his fine art career. In 2008, the idea for a Latin American artist collective. In my infinite world of my imagination, I tried to convey and stimulate the mythical and spiritual elements of visual expression. My passion in painting started with the magnificence elements of nature, fauna and flora, and it’s natural beauty that involves its selective conditions. For example: the majestic animals of the Amazon or Indians from Venezuela (Guajiros). However, I always try to expand my work to other areas of reality and with a spiritual meaning; therefore, I, occasionally, have the tendency to go from one extreme to another in order to explore, and show the ranges of styles and techniques by creating the most beautiful and delicate components of life to the most complex and strange art. Fortunately, I have the pleasure and the opportunity to experience the richness of many cultures in South and North America, whi