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About Artists Artists Allison Rietta Carl Karni Bain Chamnan Chongpaiboon Charly Palmer Cherie Harte Courtlandt Swartz Deirdre Sullivan Beeman Emily Carriere Ilyana Martinez Isabelle Beaubien Ivan Ortiz Jean-François Debongnie Julio Ferrer Kate Taylor Keijo Tapanainen Laura Culic Laurie Skantzos Marcelo Suaznabar Mario Angel Mary Karavos Michael C. Gibson Michael Stecky Michelle Marin Nahum Flores Orlin Mantchev Peter Barelkowski Peter Colbert Pita Ohiwerei Sabine Puschmann Salomon Khammi Sandra Di Leo Shastri Maharaj Suzanne McNenly Sylvie Adams Tadas Zaicikas Thierry Alet Z'Otz Collective Zoya Taylor Art Fairs Art Fairs Seattle Art Fair 2025 AAF Berlin 2025 San Francisco Art Fair 2025 AAF NY Spring 2025 Scottsdale Art Week Art Fair History Contact
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MARCELO SUAZNABAR

“I try to seek answers and then to contemplate them. I need to express something… thoughts, ideas, visions, and to express visually with the language of colour. In my figures there is symbolism of life, nature, the environment, progress, time, death, the universe and the confusion of the human mind.”

At age 16 Marcelo began exhibiting his work as part of group shows. This he accomplished without formal art training. Driven by a passion for drawing and the encouragement of his uncle, at an early age he explored his interest in colour through the use of watercolours, pastels and coloured pencil. Later he completed a course in art at the Catholic University in Santiago.

His early works were heavily focused on religious themes, influenced by colonial baroque artists such as Bolivian Master of Calamarca, Peruvian Holguin and Italian Bitti among others. This first phase in his career lasted more than five years. Then, he discovered the force and the language of colour. Later his influence came mainly from Brueguel, Bosch, Carrington, Dali, Kahlo and Borda to name a few. This led to a second phase which he calls the "apocalypse" phase and subsequently the "altiplano magico" phase.

For years Marcelo has been engaged in the exploration of another symbolic language. The repetition of the Bolivian altiplano landscape is evident in his work. This is the landscape of his childhood and the memory of the scenery haunts him – it is magical with great power and energy.

The images in Marcelo’s paintings are at the same time whimsical, complex, absurd and surreal. These images appear to him at moments throughout the day and he is compelled to record them as sketches in order not to lose the phantasm.

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Transformacion II
La pequeña isla
Para todos el tiempo es fragil
Todos quremos ser felices
El Ojo III
Creature I
Payaso I
Salar
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Creature III
El Payaseo
Frog
Big Eyes
Sin Palabras
Lengua Larga
Untitled XIII
Aperitivo
Untitled
In the Wheels
Personaje con ojos
Untitled III
Untitled IV
Untitled V
Creature I
El ojo
Untitled
Demon
Skull
Untitled VII
Untitled VIII
Untitled X
Untitled IX

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The Clown
La Orilla Del Lago
Rabbit
Queen
Payaso
Tres Ojos II
Lady
Bubble gum
Creatura II
El ojo II
Untitled (with lamp)
La mascota quiere salir
Oidos sordos
El tiempo sobre mi cabeza
Creature X
Clown
Fish (4x4)
Creature I
El insecto
Una mirada fija
Hombre
Mujer
The Gentleman II
El Musico
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Creatures
Untitled
Skull
Narrador de historias
Oruga

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