CharruArt

About the Artist:

Luis Mesquita / CharruArt / “Art from my Heart”)

Born in 1977 in Montevideo, Uruguay

Self-taught

Personal Interests:

- Painting (acrylic on canvas), Visionary Art and Primitivism

- Contemporary Art, Assemblage and Sculptures created from recycled wood, as well as pieces of wood collected from beaches and rivers

- Ceramics, Modelling, and Painting in enamel

- Urban Art and Murals

- Theater and the Performing Arts

- Artistic Makeup

- Plastic expression and Workshops. It was in the magical Aruba,

place characterized by the force of the elements,

where I could connect with the forms of the driftwood.

My works cover the gamut of colors and shapes.

From subdued, natural colors reflecting things in nature

like the magic of the creatures of the sea, to bright bursts of color

inspired in the primitivism and the visionary art.

CharruArt born in 2011,

my friend and also Plastic Artist who could see in me and believing in me.

Opening a new portal in my life but also I was influenced by the relationship

with the environment, with the four elements.

The deep blue ocean, the wind does not stop, the fire of the summer sun and earth connecting with ancestral memory.

I learn to be alone in silence with nature, my MATE (traditional Uruguayan infucion)

and the nostalgia of my land which I never forget.

My art is self-taught and what I make is what feel, I liketo be a channel of this energy.

The idea of working as a Contemporary Artist of the environment (Environmental Contemporary artists) working with assemblage created from driftwood, corals, snails, recycled plastics collected from the beaches.

This alchemy seduces me, is like transforming something that is useless and worthless in a piece of art and also to provide a bit to recover Mother Earth and raise awareness .

I force my self to leave my land Uruguay at the age of 20 y/o so I can learn to fly and learn how to love my own land and connect with my roots.

I am a grateful person and convinced "When we believe, we Create" Charruart was one of the signs, we all have them all the time, it is important to connect with your heart and listening the environment and be part of everything