Elias Santis is a contemporary Argentine painter, in residence at Casa Toesca from 13 October to 20 November 2017.

Please find below some abstract from the interview with the young curator Giulia Cordò.

G: “Let’s talk about your current situation, have you agreed to participate in this artist’s residence in a country far away and different from your home, do you think that the foreign neighborhood does fit you?”
E: “[…] What happened here, apart from being so far away, gave me time and time to be very much with myself, because here there’s nothing
that distracts you, I was able to see it in the people who surrounded me and the truth is that they are not so different compared to Santiago del Chile, I felt in a very familiar environment, both for those who stayed with me around, that for the landscape and also in everyday life. ”
G: “And has the surrounding landscape stimulated you for the painting you have done this month?”
E: “yes, the natural landscape, each person dresses in a certain color, paints their home in a certain color and they too are part of the landscape: this has stimulated me a lot, a lot from having changed the brush stroke of my style; I think there will be a before and after in my painting after this residence, in particular as regards the colour. ”
G: “So can you say that you have placed stones for the future?”
E: “It is very nice what you say because I think exactly like that, stone by stone. […] ”