Splash, 2018

Claudio Mella Castel  

The adjective I like most about my work is "understatement" or, in today's parlance "analogous painting. I think it's lazy to want to categorize myself. My work is just an honest extension of who I am. Claudio Mella Castel, color blind painter, born in 1971 in Santiago de Chile, began painting at the age of 15 under the tutelage of his father, a neo-impressionist artist. He studied pedagogy and the baccalaureate of arts at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences and completed his postgraduate training in interactive multimedia at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.He participates in multiple group and individual exhibitions in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Spain. He has received important awards, recognitions and been part of major selections in national competitions. His work is currently in collections in South America, the United States and Europe. Currently lives in Barcel one. In his artistic work, the artist, based on internal research, recodes the color favoring the composition as if it were a piece of music; harmonies of blues, fugue of reds or symphony in bright colors. The use of color as a plastic element is not fanciful. Powerful chromatic vibration, holding the color planes by neutral structures and black graphics in the foreground. He dissociates form from its original meaning, reinventing it according to his perception.