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Frida Zanatti Wagner

Born May 18, 1969, Frida Zanatti Wagner studied graphic design, art and painting in Lima. Specialized courses followed in engraving, photography, ceramics and design. However the artist feels a preference for painting, which she has practiced since 1992.

She held her first exhibition in Caracas, Venezuela in 1996. From that time, she has shown her work in solo and collective exhibits Berlin, Prague, Madrid, San Juan de Puerto Rico and Lima, among other important venues.

"My main source of inspiration is the people around me and, starting from them, I create different characters," she says.

Zanatti resolves with elegance the expressions and forms that she transmits in her finely finished canvases. With the subtleties of her colors, she creates a very pleasing conceptualism free of aggression. Her paintings reveal a maturity acquired in the constant search for her own pictorial personality. She invites us to explore an interior world filled with abstracted experiences.

Her artistic formation comes more from her own experience than from studies. Zanatti describes her motivation is an inner force that impells her to paint, trying to transmit the human and spiritual side of each person she depicts. Thus her art is, for her, a portrait of the being.

"Art is the maximum expression of human thoughts and feelings of each epoch," she says. "I would like art to be a part of everyone's life. In this footprint, which is my painting, I leave a part of my life, my thoughts and my feelings."