"Montevideo's Digital Art Studio"
Since an early age he has been drawing, painting and engraving, and began to exhibit wood engravings and ink drawings and monotypes in 1972. In that decade he integrated the movement “el dibujazo”, and since then has displayed work in several expositions in Uruguay and internationally, receiving prizes in several categories.
He has studied with mentors of the stature of
Luis Solari, David Finkebeiner,Rimer Cardillo
and Florio Parpagnoli.
In 1995 he studied visual communication in the Design Center of Uruguay.
Since that time, he has been dedicated to investigating
computer graphic and multimedia languages.
Alejandro Silveira was born in Montevideo-Uruguay in the year 1951, he is dedicated to teaching and investigate visual arts.
Engraver par excellence, his career begins at an early age investigating all sorts of techniques till 1995, where he begins to accomplish Digital Art through Photoshop as his inseparable tool. His work covers from Abstraction to Figurative Neo- Expressionism , digitalizing in this manner his experiences combined with his imagination and so penetrating into a timeless world where the conjunction of shapes, lights and shadows, colors and rhythms create a new form of engraving. He also works as freelance illustrator.