Ariel Calderón was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, with a childhood marked by drawing and handicrafts.
He studied at the University of Fine Arts in his hometown before joining the workshop “Viejo Molino” of the painter and engraver Carlos Pacheco in 2007.
With his first teacher he studied composition and color theory, in addition to participating and organizing group exhibitions. It also served him to establish painting as his life objective and to develop a chromatic syntax.
He meets the plastic artist Nicolás Menza (Buenos Aires) and for a period of four and a half years he takes drawing and painting classes with live model in his workshop, deepening on the pictorial language, making analysis of different works and studying color through the use of acrylics, pastels, oils, mixed techniques.
In 2015 he takes studies with Christian Mazzuca (La Plata) where he delves into drawing, painting and sculpture under a study of the form linked to a geometric structure of planes.
Ariel currently resides in Valencia, after having studied at the “Barcelona Academy of Art” (Barcelona) and teaches in his private studio located in the neighborhood of Sant Antoni, in the Cultural Center El Retiro (Sitges) and in the Cultural Association El Pumarejo located in Hospitalet de Llobregat.
In his painting there is an indivisible link between space and form being part of the same compositional unit, in order to show us an inner world where the human condition has weight and takes shape, in isolated characters as in more complex relationships, guiding the viewer’s gaze towards the approach of a new consciousness.
On other occasions, leaving aside the human figure, he leaves the studio workshop to explore and decipher the relationship between space and form in an outdoor painting.
Ariel Calderón does not stop exploring; 2021 is marked by a profound change in technique and color, a new turning point in the artist’s extensive and prolific career.
Since 2022 in Valencia, he has been teaching in his personal workshop in Benimaclet, the most artistic neighborhood of the city.