José Luis Varto

Bio

Ingenious, creative, spirited, a relentless explorer of new forms of artistic expression. Constantly experimenting with new materials, he creates new art concepts that have led him from realistic art to a unique abstraction of shape; which characterizes his work, he is creator of his very unique “Lonarias”.

Ever from his early years he was strongly attracted towards sketching. Inspired by his father, a painting devotee who provided him with his first drawing tools, and by his mother, from whom he inherited his passion for observation; he developed a steady and sound sketching. Mesmerized by the human body, he soon came to understand its tridimensionality, and that of several other objects; growing more sensitive towards color and shape.

His interest in graphic expression encouraged him to practice his skills in journalistic illustration and publicity. This job allowed him to acquire a sense of discipline and creativeness.

He then went on to study in the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM); where he polished his technique and became acquainted with several others, such as photography and engraving. He created many artwork and participated in several exhibitions.

Nowadays, keeping up to date with technological advances; and, in compliance with his innovative drive, he has adopted digital media as means of artistic expression. He has even taken up CGI, thus satisfying his ambition for “keeping in touch” with his time, ad those to come.

He enjoys the pleasure of crafting surreal or realistic pieces, manipulating colors and artistically distributing them on any surface, creating easily recognizable shapes, or abstract figures in unimaginable, dreamlike settings; with one-of-a-kind characteristics, that set them apart from traditional and old-school painting. He relies in his enormous imagination to innovate and produce “state-of-the-art” pieces.