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Carlos Vivar
PAINTING | SCULPTURE

Carlos Vivar was born in Mexico City in 1964. The son of a surgeon and a psychologist, and the second of three siblings, he knew from an early age that he wanted to be a painter. His schoolbooks and notebooks were testimony to that. Regardless of the subject they would depict in pencil or fountain pen, an array of characters, places and imaginary animals.

Soon after, his work began to gain popularity. His work began to be exhibited in New York (a yearly event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel) in the early 2000s which coincided with his focus to full time painting.

Later in life he went onto study graphic design in Mexico City and then a master’s degree in graphic art in Milan, Italy. During this time he also lived in England and Spain, places that would mark and influence his work later on in his life. However, immediately after his studies concluded, he worked as a graphic designer back in Mexico City, and a few years later set up his own graphic design firm. His creativity turned this business enterprise into a successful venture, drawing major international business accounts. The economic success of this phase in his career was a keystone as it allowed him to abandon graphic design altogether, in spite of its monetary benefits, and dedicate his creativity towards full time painting.

Carlos is a self-taught painter, whose work has evolved over the last 25 years, ranging from indigenous pre-Hispanic-inspired icons, rural sceneries, Mexican revolutionaries themes, to European city landscapes mixed with contrasting colours commonly used by the Mexican architect Barragán. His sculptures reflect a continuation of his paintings, borrowing icons or details which are easily associated to his graphic art. Vivar confesses that his colour-blindness, inherited from his maternal grandfather, has been more a gift than a hindrance.