{"id":231,"date":"2013-04-01T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.decinti.com\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:51:10","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro DeCinti (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian-Chilean painter, graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Chili, based in Spain since 2001. Awarded with the Academic Excellence Scholarship in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities. First prize in the Arte en Vivo contest in 1994 and awarded the postgraduate grant from Fundaci\u00f3n Arte y Autores Contempor\u00e1neos in 2001. Founder of the Decinti Villal\u00f3n art project in Madrid, 2003, together with Chilean-Spanish artist Oscar Villal\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has been a collaborator and promoter of the Ram\u00edrez M\u00e1ro Institute project since 2009 together with the German artist Rafael Ram\u00edrez M\u00e1ro. In 2011 he founded DeArtibus, an art project in Barcelona, up to 2013. In 2019 he founded the group El Bloque, a DeCinti Villal\u00f3n project, in Mexico with Mexican artist Heder Contreras. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deeply inspired by the philosophy of <\/span>Saint Thomas Aquinas, Cornelio Fabro, Christian Ferraro<\/b> and<\/span> \u00c9tienne Gilson<\/b>. In 2020 he embraced the challenge of the Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Council for Culture to investigate and develop his work along the path of the <\/span>\u201cVia Pulchritudinis\u201d<\/b>. He actively combats the anti-Catholic black legend, historical falsification and philosophical errors that wear down Western Christian society through modernist, secularist, materialist and atheist art and culture. Contributing to the cultural counter-revolutionary movement for sound doctrine and in obedience to the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church.<\/span><\/p>\n

2019 <\/strong>Junto a los artistas mexicanos Heder Contreras y Emmanuel Sierra para funda el proyecto art\u00edstico DV M\u00e9xico<\/strong>, con sede en San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n

2012 <\/strong>Funda el proyecto art\u00edstico DeArtibus<\/strong>, con sede en el tradicional barrio de Gr\u00e0cia en Barcelona.<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Colabora activamente en la creaci\u00f3n del Instituto Ramirez Maro<\/a> <\/strong>con sede en Hauset, B\u00e9lgica.<\/p>\n

2006 <\/strong><\/strong>Together with the Chilean artist Oscar Villal\u00f3n<\/a>, he founds the headquartered Santa Feliciana No. 19, Chamber\u00ed, Madrid. From the Decinti Villal\u00f3n Painting Studio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2004 <\/strong><\/strong>Together with the Chilean artist Oscar Villal\u00f3n<\/a>, he founds the Decinti Villal\u00f3n Painting Studio<\/strong><\/a> based at 4 Calle del Castillo, Chamber\u00ed, Madrid where they give painting classes and strive to actively promote painting.<\/p>\n

2003 <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>Together with the Chilean artist Oscar Villal\u00f3n<\/a> he founds the Solana 12 <\/strong><\/a>Painting Studio<\/strong><\/a>, where he regularly teaches courses in Madrid, Spain. Pre-selected for the BMW Painting Prize.<\/p>\n

2001-2003 <\/strong>Painting and drawing teacher at La Academia<\/strong> at the Chinch\u00f3n and Madrid bases, where he collaborates with the digital image workshop.<\/p>\n

2001 <\/strong>He is awarded a Post-graduate scholarship from the Fundaci\u00f3n Arte y Autores Contempor\u00e1neos (Art and Contemporary Painters\u2019 Foundation).<\/p>\n

1996 <\/strong><\/strong>He is awarded a degree in Plastic Arts in 1996.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong>\u00a0 He begins digital technology applied to design and art, obtaining first place in the \u201cArte en Vivo\u201d<\/strong> painting competition organised by Librer\u00edas Nacional, KLM and the Royal Dutch Embassy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992 <\/strong>He concentrates on research into painting materials and processes He begins teaching on painting courses for the Federation of Chilean Students (FECH), over 9 years in Santiago de Chile, where he becomes a teacher of painting and drawing at La Cisterna Town Cultural Centre,\u00a0La Florida Town Cultural Institute,\u00a0English Community Social Club, Prince of Wales Country Club,\u00a0Spanish Community Social Club, Estadio Espa\u00f1ol, Israeli Community Social Club, Estadio Israelita Maccabi.<\/p>\n

1991 <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>He is admitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, being awarded the Academic Excellence Scholarship<\/strong> in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities.<\/p>\n

1986 <\/strong><\/strong>He begins to learn oil painting<\/p>\n

Alejandro Decinti was born in 1973 in Santiago de Chile.<\/p>\n

Themes<\/h1>\n

The artist presents a subtle connection of five great thematic cycles: theology, moralism, Greco-Latin mythology, Mayan and Mapuche mythology. He is always mindful of the major difficulty involved in each of them due to the grandeur and complexity they entail. This diversity is shared by the foundational aspect of humans\u2019 history, culture and soul. Through the common metaphysical experience of the being, as humanity and its transcendental relationship with the reality that invades it overflows, exalting its natural sense of the divine to reach levels of supernaturalness essentially determined by the proximity of the theological truth of revelation. Research and artistic, philosophical, and spiritual development. His work dives into the wide-ranging concerns of his most personal proposal, initially dark and blurred, only illuminated by faint flashes of intuition, which has been clarified and consolidated through a work that reflects his honesty and hard work, making it a very personal contemporary painting proposal with a traditional technical and thematic approach. It attempts to delve into the original mysteries of conscience and freedom hidden in the good Lord\u2019s unfathomable silence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Via Pulchritudinis<\/h4>\n

In the theology cycle, he attempts to bring the Christian Eastern and Western iconographic contributions into play, gathered and updated with a personal contemporary sensibility. The artist is aware of the difficulty involved in this challenge, and chooses the main milestones of the revelation, presented in the traditional scheme of the holy rosary, to progressively broaden and perfect the proposals while going into depth into the mystery of spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ship of fools<\/h4>\n

The moralist cycle is based on the satirical work \u201cShip of fools\u201d, published in Basilea in the 15th century (in its original title in German, Das Narrenschiff; in its Latin translation, Stultifera Navis) written by Sebastian Brand. In a succession of 112 critical episodes, each accompanied by an engraving, it criticizes the vices of his time by denouncing different types of foolishness or stupidity. A reflection on the theme of evil and its foundation in human beings\u2019 radical metaphysical freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Greco-Latin Mythology<\/h4>\n

In the cycle of Greco-Latin mythology, the painter offers a re-reading of Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses, a brilliant poetic work in fifteen books published in 8 A.D., which narrate the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar, combining mythology and the history of the time with exceptional beauty and freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

American mythology<\/h4>\n

In the Mayan mythological cycle, the artist seeks to represent the stories in a traditional Western styles that are depicted in the book \u201cPopol Vuh\u201d, also known as \u201cThe Council Book\u201d, presumably compilation of texts and oral stories from the 16th century created by Fray Francisco Xim\u00e9nez. Much of the wisdom and many of the Mayan traditions are treasured in a compendium of aspects of great importance such as religion, astrology, mythology, customs, history and legends that tell the story of the origin of the world and civilization as well as the many phenomena that occur in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chilean mythology<\/h4>\n

In the cycle of Mapuche mythology the artist relies on the exciting research work entitled \u201cTrentrenfil\u00fa\u201d by the Italian Alberto Trivero. He managed to travel and interview several southern Chilean settlers at the end of the 20th century and through sheer perseverance gathered the main cosmogonic myths that are transmitted from generation to generation. An ethnic group immortalized in the important 16th century Spanish epic poem \u201cLa Araucana\u201d by Don Alonso de Ercilla, which will be the source of a new cycle of paintings on the formation of Chilean identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Technique<\/h1>\n

The technique consists of traditional oil paintings with added alkyd resins that provide excellent drying properties and stability to the paint layer. The colour palette is mainly based on primary and some earth colours. The backgrounds are white with primers that are usually medium coloured, sometimes cold- in bluish or greenish grays- or warm- in earth or iron oxides. The work is firmly anchored in the last 500 years of technical oil painting tradition, and includes the contribution of digital technology and photography.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the artist it has been interesting and particularly desirable to approach these themes with a language that synthesizes and contains the great breadth of plastic and visual resources that we have been accumulating as a culture. It is the result of a lifetime study of classical works, techniques of painting, geometric and harmonic lines, with a great emphasis on the modeling of chiaroscuro. The treatment of light and composition attempts to involve the viewer and make him\/her participate in the scene that appears vividly and intensely before his\/her eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aware of contemporary artistic values but very respectful of the rule of personal artistic sensitivity, the painter has found it necessary and essential to approach this way of \u201cgood work\u201d from the perspective of the traditional craftsman, as a way of keeping the taste for this noble and ancient- but always current- craft of painting alive.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italian-Chilean painter, graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Chili, based in Spain since 2001. Awarded with the Academic Excellence Scholarship in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities. First prize in the Arte en Vivo contest in 1994 and awarded the postgraduate grant from Fundaci\u00f3n Arte y Autores Contempor\u00e1neos in 2001. Founder of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page.beta.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decinti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}