Country: Argentina
About me
Vladimir Merchensky, educator and exponent of contemporary watercolor in Buenos Aires, has painted and illustrated for the Global Fund, Absolut Vodka, the Buenos Aires tourist bus and the European Commission. He has been a selection jury and curator. Author of the curricular design of a career in Art. He held exhibitions at Malba and the Recoleta Cultural Center, among others.
He obtained 5 international recognitions. Some of his artworks: an imaginary 78 cards tarot, memories of Africa and pre-Columbian America in several covers for local music albums and illustrated campaigns for the Ministry of Culture.
He has teaching at the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of Art and the University of Palermo, and today he direct TantaTinta school, the first watercolor school in Buenos Aires, which is processing an student exchange agreement with the Fine Arts Superior School of Ayacucho in Peru.
He is entirely dedicated to the development of the Watercolor Teacher Training Program. He maintains that watercolor can acquire true professionalism at a global level when the number of certificated professors and institutions that highlight this technique in their curriculum increases. To this end, he proposes didactic material and a grammar of contemporary watercolor that includes Synthetic Valorism, a representation system from bas-relief shadows. He has presented the project of this program at festivals and conventions in Spain, Italy, Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and his country, Argentina.
In the classroom, he seeks to expand the expressive range of this technique motivating playful spirit, randomness, mixing with inks or chemical effects, and the use of saturated color glazes. Inspired by Susuki method, Jason Nemer's teaching method and the texts by structuralist theorists (Christian Metz, Rudolph Arnheim and Donis Dondis), his pedagogical proposal includes the twentieth century avant-garde (expressionism, informali
