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MEET THE ARTIST

Hello, I’m Damián Basante Arbues, an Argentine visual artist living in the Spain of my paternal grandmother and based in a white village of Andalusia.

Surprised by how I could draw, from the age of three my parents always encouraged and supported me to express myself however I wished.
Eternal gratitude to them!

‣ the fine artist

My path as a painter is much longer than as a photographer, and finding my own visual identity required many more years and experience. The usual thing is to focus on a single activity in order to professionalize it. But I’ve spent the past 15 years practicing and developing both photography and painting at the same time.

‣ the photographer

I consider myself a travel photographer because it’s the moment when I take my camera and lose myself with it. I’m not only traveling through places physically, but I also abstract myself with my camera and mentally journey into my own pocket universe. It’s the same kind of abstraction I feel when I paint in my studio.