Vladimir Luna — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

I was born in Mexico in the city of Durango where I studied classical guitar at the Superior School of Music, later I emigrated to Baja California to continue my studies in a formal way at the Conservatory of the Orchestra of Baja California and at the Hispanic American Guitar Institute.

Later, right there I ventured into the world of plastic arts taking free courses and workshops with the teachers Álvaro Blancarte and Francisco Merino and participating in various exhibitions where I discovered my true vocation.

The work of artists like Manuel Felguérez, the current of informalism, contemporary painters like Francis Bacon, Freud, Dix have influenced in my career, but I feel most identified with Anselm Kiefer’s neo-expressionism.

I consider that any material can be used if it’s conceptual approach is adequate and fulfills its aesthetic function, with the condition that is not perishable and does not partially or totally corrupt the work.

In 2015 I emigrated to Washington State to Vashon Island where I found great solidarity in the community and great support from the island's artistic guild.

Vladimir Luna
2021

Artist Statement

I consider myself an eclectic and self ‘taught artist in the sense that I do not have a formal academic education. The techniques that I have developed and adopted are the result of participating in various free workshops with figurative and abstract painters, but above all, the exercise of trial and error. The concept or themes of my paintings are mostly literary, addressing philosophical, historical, mythological, etc., often with a focus on questioning the human condition. I try to make my relationship with my works as minimal as possible to achieve objectivity in the idea I want to capture, although I am aware beforehand that this break is impossible; this utopia serves as a reference and starting point in the exercise of my attempt to do art. This requirement demands different technique, material and modus operandi resources in each work. I consider that any material can be used if the conceptual approach is adequate and if it fulfills its aesthetic function, with the condition that it is not perishable and does not corrupt the work partially or totally.

VLADIMIR LUNA
Vashon, 2021