FAUSTO AMUNDARAIN

(*1992 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Madrid, Spain)

Fausto Amundarain uses excerpts from comics and caricatures, among other things, as the visual language for his collages. In doing so, he reflects on the history of these elements, which are nostalgic by nature and present in the collective memory. However, Amundarain collects these elements, images and icons not only to explore their history and social significance, but above all to create his own images and structures, which he presents in a condensed and saturated form. In doing so, he creates spaces in which the images communicate with each other, but in which they are also repeatedly lost and found again elsewhere. By breaking down the basic composition, by adding and removing elements, by the lines that make up the whole and develop anew, the artist succeeds in completely changing the meaning of the original images, tearing them out of context and thus opening up paths to new stories.