Felipe Giménez

Sierra de los Padres, Featured Artist and Jury

My name is Felipe Giménez and I am a painter. If I had been born in Patagonia, perhaps I would paint the wind and its ghosts, but since I was born in Mar del Plata I paint people and their circumstances. From my time in Psychology, my ears and eyes remain attentive. awake to look. I live and work in Sierra de los Padres.
Mar del Plata+150=A story made of stories “Mar del Plata is the city of infinite links. Mar del Plata belongs to no one because it belongs to everyone, even those who do not live in it. It is the city of greatest belonging to Argentines. It is the city where you seek rest, play, good food, endless afternoons, the intensity of the night, the missed, the desired, the subtlety of coffee, the unexpected encounter. If there is something that Mar del Plata has become in these 150 years, it is a Lighthouse that illuminates the smile of the Argentines” something of this is what I try to say in this painting.