Cristian Faundes Born in Temuco in 1977. At an early age shows a unique talent for drawing and painting, especially in student competitions throughout her childhood and adolescence. In fall 1997 to study architecture at the University of Temuco, however is stronger creative freedom that he surrender his vocation for art, so it decided to withdraw from architecture and moved to Santiago, capital of Chile to study art in the Metropolitan University of Education Sciences. In this university is also highlighted their involvement as a student, getting three times a place among the first three classroom of students of the visual arts career (second, third and finally first in painting) also gets honorable mention in the competition insitu painting done by the center extension of the University. In those years participates in the paint shop object that performs the visual artist Victor Hugo Bravo Corporation Balmaceda in 1215. Where performing a task that remains in the sample selection of painting and sculpture contest couple of the Municipality of Santiago. After all this has continued to work and participate in various projects and samples of visual arts. ACTUAL atellier is called Tall 15 in full Bellavista neighborhood, bohemian and cultural center of Santiago. Faundes: visual artist, painter and filmmaker video-art; defines his work as part of an evolving process. His work as a whole is eclectic. The topics are diverse and experimenting with different techniques. The identity of his work and gives his gaze particularly critical of things. An ontology of man and existence, traveling from the stain gestural, synthesis, detail and vibrant color in the landscape; oníricas paintings and metaphysical; expressionism to a crude and irreverent. I could speak of the alchemists as a metaphor for the continuing transformation of the image and the way in search of a hidden essence and yet latent in all things.
