Giannini Arnetta Díaz (1990) is an architect, painter and sculptor who was born and lives in Venezuela. He began his artistic training at the age of 10 and since then he hasn’t stopped his activity. He has participated in several collective exhibitions in his country and also in competitions that reward projects that combine art, design, and architecture, such as the AXIS Prize, which is awarded by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad Central de Venezuela and that he won in 2017.

The selection of artworks by Arnetta Díaz that we present in Arte Original are part of his most recent production and are the result of the tireless artistic work that he has been developing since his childhood. They are oil paintings on canvas of medium and large format, figurative, related to portraiture and that flirt with a certain surrealist language. We notice female faces, of diverse ages and features, with a serene and joyful expression. In the particular composition of this series, the faces are presented in the foreground and intervened and traversed by a sinuous line. Its configuration refers in a certain way to the chromaticism of graphite, because he uses in these paintings a reduced color palette, monochromatic, of white, black and a wide range of grays.

Although the handling of the artist’s academic technique is evident, in his visual discourse there is no intention of mimetic representation of reality as the ultimate goal, but rather it is a media to develop his personal and artistic concerns.

Ana Beatriz García