Gregorio Zanardi

Born in Argentina in 2000, Gregorio Zanardi paints across analog and digital to feel, in his words, 'less human' and 'more alive.' Meditation since 2019. The studio is play, with a little restlessness left in so the beauty has company.

The artist's process operates through 'a balance between instinct and intention,' allowing the unconscious to guide expression toward an 'authentic and powerful visual language.' This pursuit manifests vividly in his latest series, where animals function as 'mirrors of human emotion' - solid, grounded compositions generating 'power and stability' while human figures merge with them, creating what he describes as 'harmony in the midst of chaos, a balance of opposites.' This philosophy echoes the principle: 'As above, so below. Light only truly shines in darkness.'

The breakthrough Blue Fear emerged during a moment of 'animal clarity' - a 3:40 a.m. surge of creation when something 'poured out of me, fluid, fast, and joyful,' guided by the tiger that 'would guide me into something new.' Channeling the ethos that inspiration finds the artist prepared, Zanardi employs ritual - mate, music, and solitude - to access the meditative state where 'the unconscious guide the expression.'

As a manifesto, his work represents 'disobeying the artificial and honoring the natural.' Rejecting contemporary perfectionism, Zanardi declares: 'I'm not seeking beauty - I'm seeking truth.' His canvases proclaim that 'we are body, error, desire, and nature,' reminding viewers that in the flow state, 'nothing is perfect, only life is.'