pixography: Santiago Caruso - A Puppet For The Niece Santiago Caruso was born in Quilmes, Argen
pixography: Santiago Caruso - A Puppet For The Niece Santiago Caruso was born in Quilmes, Argentina. He uses uses ink and watercolors in what he calls an ‘ink and scratch’ technique by brushing ink and other pigments onto plastered cardboard and then scratches forms through the ink layer, working this numerous times to build up dense layers of colour. The artist also paints more conventionally in both tempera and acrylics. Santiago Caruso prefers to call himself a ‘symbolist’, reflecting the inspiration he received from his study of that late 19th Century art movement. “I try to summon a poetic phantom that supplies a wider vision of the human, contemplating the beautiful, the frightening, the repressed or forgotten in the shadows, the impossible. With this concept of depiction, I try to utilize Gothic symbolism as a crystallized view of the world in many respects. I combine religion, politics, and commonplace things to reveal another vision of the world with regard to the unconscious, the damned ghosts we’ve buried, and many other aspects of history and philosophy.“ - Santiago Caruso