Daniel Arteaga

Daniel Arteaga is a Colombian artist working and living in London. He studied Fine Arts in Tenerife (Spain) and graduated in 2018 from the Department of Transdisciplinary Art. He is starting a Master in Painting at the Royal College of Art this Autumn.

His commitment to art has allowed him to explore different media such as silkscreen print, video art, and painting.  Arteaga seeks to break down the barriers between formal and conceptual art within his work by bending of techniques to create a visual language in which iconography, forms, and colors are highly recognizable and refer to life and memory.  The relationship between art history, philosophy, and contemporary art movements has inspired him to explore ways to approach his practice, prompting reflections on nature as well as artistic purpose in a contemporary context.

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Notes from Curator

Daniel's paintings echo the curatorial history of Hotsheet exhibits, where artists draw from photography as sources of inspiration within their work. For Daniel photography holds a strong influence within practice , working from panoramic images of landscapes. Through processes of compressing the image, Daniel works from these edited images to create these paintings.

What is interesting about these paintings, is how these play with the viewers perception of abstraction. Where a viewer at first may deem the works to be abstract painting but once understand the context of the creation of the work the painting unravels itself. This Unraveling plays to Daniels use of panoramic images, playing to this idea of coding within image making.