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Painter and photographer Alex Ocampo earliest memories of art are associated with the sweet smell of turpentine in his grandmother’s atelier. Ana Maria Guevara Lynch was quite an accomplished amateur, Che Guevara’s carnal aunt and a favorite among her grandchildren. From her lovingly worked reproductions Alex to this day retains the love of J. Sorolla y Bastida’s use of light and colour and the love of oils as a painting medium.
He went on to study art under Jean Josse, an English artist working and teaching in Buenos Aires at that time, and then to study at the Architecture School of the University of Buenos Aires. He has since studied painting under argentine masters like Ricardo Garabito, EduardoLabombarda and Alejandro Boim.
After the interlude of a nine year long retreat as a monastic inmate in the Ramakrishna Mission, he followed his early interest in photography traveling in India, Japan, China, Tunisia, Italy, Greece, France, Spain, Canada, the USA, and back to his native country by way of Brazil and Uruguay.
He became a member of “Imagema” the avant-garde photographic group led by well known Argentinean photographer Horacio Coppola. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, La Nación,Geomundo, Sienzia e Vita, Max, First, etc.
His work as a photographer and as a still life and portrait painter has been shown in the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires and several other museums and galleries of Argentina and is part of private collections in his own country and abroad, among them the Benson and Hedges Art Collection.
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