Colombo Chilean painter born in Santiago de Chile on November 16, 1977, a particularly difficult year and that history would mark not only the country but of the artist's life since June 14 because they lived in a family of strikes by of the disappeared, where he put to death by the CNI intelligence agency to anyone who thought differently which was regarded as extremist.
Living in this environment of violation of human rights, as declared by the United Nations on December 5, 1977 and before the declaration of former President Augusto Pinochet as president support or live in exile, the family decided to move to City Bogota, Colombia in February 1978 because his mother was Colombian and opened a better chance to live without so much oppression.
To enter and February 1982 he studied at the College of the Marist Champagnat and the age of 7 his father, also a painter, teaches all about the art on canvas. Thereafter began its history as an artist in 1989 which gives its first fruit when he won first prize at school for his oil painting entitled Champagnat Landscape of Boyaca in 1991 and projected locally, nationally and internationally as being characteristic their marine issues, streets, and landscapes typical Chilean miners.
Artist's Statement
With this unexpected peak decide to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Institute of Popular Culture in Cali and has since collected a career full of successes example is the presentations made to:
1992 COLOMBO AMERICANO, BOGOTÁ
1996 TERTULIA QUINDIANA, CADES ARMENIA
1996 INSTITUTO POPULAR DE CULTURA EN CALI
1997 INSTITUTO LATINOAMERICANO DE CHILENOS
1997 TONY’S GALLERY MIAMI FLORIDA
1997 TONY’S GALLERY ORLANDO FLORIDA
1998 GALLERY AT THE PLAZA HOTEL NEW YORK “DESFILE PUERTORIQUEÑO”
1999 ARTISTAS CONTRA EL CÁNCER- HOTEL CERRO MAR EN DORADO P.R
2000 GALLERY DE ARTE OP. SAN JUAN P.R
2000 ARTISTA CONTRA EL CANCER EXPOCISIÓN HOSPITAL ONCOLÓGICO P.R - HOTEL CERRO MAR BEACH DORADO
2001 TONY’S GALLERY NEW YORK - HAVANA CLUB
2001 CASA DE VAN GOGH HOLANDA - CONCUSO DE ESTUDIANTES
2002 NEW YORK TONY’S GALLERY
2003 SAN LUCAS HOSPITAL. PUERTO RICO
2003"ARTISTAS CONTRA EL CANCER . FLORIDA
2004 45 TH INTERNACINAL FESTIVAL OF HANDCRAFT VIÑA DEL MAR
2004 GALLERIA DI STRADA. ROMA ITALIA
2005 GALLERY CREATIVO CARIBEÑO SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
2006. MAEJIMA ART CENTER. OKINAWA, JAPON
2006 AMERICA NATIVA. SANTIAGO DE CHILE
2007 HOSPITAL CAYETANO . SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
2007. SUBASTA POREL CANCER" RELEVO POR LA VIDA"
2007 AKIYAMA GALLERY . TOKIO JAPON
2009 CASA DE LA CULTURA DE NUÑOA SANTIAGO DE CHILE
2010. DIARIO LA NACION SANTIAGO DE CHILE
Since 2002, the works of Angelo Garrido Montes appears preferably a series of female characters staring thoughtfully at the horizon and act in silence, ready to listen and understand. These characters do not seem too aware of the beauty of their bodies, do not cause or realize they are being referred to by many eyes his world living inside the box and hardly able to communicate with the viewer.
This evolution allowed to develop as a modern and extremely prolific artist working in acrylic and oil which helps to clearly identify its mission in life which was devoted entirely to the art of systematic and responsible. Painting for him is his call of the soul and who has devoted his life to art and learning know-how and extensive mature a work as it wants to leave a huge legacy to share with the world ... get to see the reality that catch your eyes.
His creations include various themes from the classic enigma of creation, mythology, science, folklore and history, such as his views as the Caribbean Sea felt they capture the shape and color to emotions, passions, fears and other feelings human.
Angelo Garrido works embellish and substances currently autonomous spaces in galleries and homes worldwide. As a portraitist has had to face the personal challenge of making a change in its depiction of various modes and forms, one of the main reactions consisted of diminished importance to the role of painting figurative qualities emphasized more formal and compositional approach is summarized in the provocative title of neo-expressionism, impressionism to expressionism is. His sublime style allows greater openness of the imagination which is susceptible and at the same time generates a vast range of effects that provide a limitless domain of the painter and occupy the highest place of the various fields.
