Even if you don't know anything about Sako Asko, the work of this visual artist will not be alien to you: if you have seen The Midnight Gospel (Netflix, 2020) or the MTV promos of the 80s, you will be familiar with this incredibly unstructured style of classic storytelling, which proposes a new direction in the aesthetic entropy of the existentialism.
Santiago Oliveros, the name behind the pseudonym, is interested in exposing the contradictions of life and deep immersion in the thought of existence. Travel from enjoyment to pain, with the same palette of emotions and colors. Its conventional destructure is really attractive.
He has told in various interviews that his inspiration and initial are the cartoons that I watched as a child on TV. The first images that flooded his head with shapes and colors would engage his spirit and mark his steps in his career as a contemporary artist.
In his first individual exhibition (something called SADDASDADAS ADASJHKL) he transformed his sensations into oil, which show his concern for pain and existentialism. His illustrations, acrylics and oils, assisted with photography, reveal the polarity of emotions: joy and pain, life and death. death.
His work (knives, crow-children, infantilized adults, dollars) is reminiscent of many other things: the cartoonist Ahumada, the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards of the 80s, a contemporary Lichtenstein. Criticizing the consumer society, aspirational, indolence and incoherent social practices, are his favorite canvas.
Her creative process involves writing down ideas on paper, associating images with experiences, reading and listening to music: “Music generates in me a search to say something, to say nothing; listen to my whims and desires, let them be and above all maintain my own constant reinvention in many aspects”, said the man from Bogotá to the magazine Diners.
Influenced and reversionary of stocks, a promise of contemporary art in the Colombian scene who, in his own words, what he longs for most in life is to feel a lot, to make existence feel a lot and to achieve happiness.