Paintings
Telaraña
“Um animal nunca substitui uma coisa pela outra” — Clarice LispectorThis morning, as I picked up my bike to ride to work, my attention was caught by a detail: between my bike and the next one there was a fine web, and when I looked closely, I saw a small spider weaving at full speed, very concentrated in its complex weave, multiplying its strokes and making the web more refined without destroying its simplicity, it was a jewel ... I had to take the bicycle, I suddenly realised the destruction it would bring, I thought absurd things like ‘but how can she weave a web between two bicycles that we use every day’, as if the spider was counting on my existence and my obscure intentions. I took a stick and pulled it through vertically to remove the spider's web, cynically hoping not to hurt the spider (who knows how much the destruction hurt it), I thought ‘where is it?’ and I was glad it had been left there in a damp corner full of leaves, which to my limited human perception seemed like a good place for a spider. Then I saw it, my spider's web, I saw myself going to work, because that's what a human being does, I saw my bicycle, the cars, my commitments, intentions and dreams, the buildings, the magazines and books, everything that has been written, everything we have discovered, the spaceships, the whole civilisation, the whole of humanity as a tiny spider's web that can disappear at any moment when ‘someone else’ destroys everything with a ‘stick’ and a cynical hope not to extinguish us, although of course we will never know why? — Sebastián Díaz Rovano
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Der Hund, Öl auf Leinwand, 59×100 cm, 2021


Cochayuyo, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Hirsch oder Hase, Öl auf Leinwand, 90×90 cm, 2025


Interior II, Öl auf Leinwand, 50×50 cm, 2025


Nuestro horizonte, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Oktoberabend, Öl auf Leinwand, 50×50 cm, 2024


Rehberge, Öl auf Leinwand, 41×40 cm, 2024


Paisaje, Öl auf Leinwand, 76×100 cm, 2022
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Telaraña, Öl auf Leinwand, 76×100 cm, 2021
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Telaraña II, Öl auf Leinwand, 76×100 cm, 2021
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Park, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2021


Documenta, Öl auf Leinwand, 76×100 cm, 2022
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Present, Öl auf Leinwand, 70×100 cm, 2021


Studio-3, Öl auf Leinwand, 41×40 cm, 2022


Sin-titulo, Öl auf Leinwand, 76×100 cm, 2022
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Stehend, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×100 cm, 2021


Montag, Öl auf Leinwand, 41×60 cm, 2022


This, Öl auf Leinwand, 50×50 cm, 2024
Beziehungsweise
“La vérité a une structure de fiction” — LacanI am interested in the Real with a capital letter, that which according to Lacan exceeds the symbol or any translation. The real is ungraspable, experienceable? Maybe, but a painting can only suggest, it can be the peephole, it cannot substitute that which it shows, it is something else. Then, the experience and the need for an artwork to have a point of view leads me to question the role of the observer. I intend to capture that "between" that occurs bounded the observer and the observed: a person in motion and another person taking a photograph; who is observing? It is as if the observer (us) always arrives late to the scene, but what is the scene? The scene is what happens. However, it has two faces: the staged in appearance (rhetoric), and the secret scene, the place of restlessness, the invitation to the impossible Real. My painting is about the search for the encounter with the other. But seeing the other does not seem to be enough, because seeing him means noticing his absence. I look for him again in the secret intimacy that belongs to us. I try to surprise him in his pure state; like a surprised animal gathering food for its young, like an involuntary glance in the mirror that startles me and asks me back: Who are you? — Sebastián Díaz Rovano


Familia, Öl auf Leinwand, 100×76 cm, 2021


Adultez, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Beziehungsweise, Öl auf Leinwand, 90×90 cm, 2025
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Pose, Öl auf Leinwand, 100×76 cm, 2021


Interior, Öl auf Leinwand, 100×100 cm, 2022


Kitchen, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Primos, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Familia II, Öl auf Leinwand, 100×100 cm, 2022


Emilio, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Cochininga, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2023


Luchita, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Celebración, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Autorretrato N°8, Öl auf Leinwand, 135×90 cm, 2023


Adultos conversando en silencio, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Niñez, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2023


Ipseidad, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Hermano, Öl auf Leinwand, 76×100 cm, 2022


Gohstbuster, Öl auf Leinwand, 135×90 cm, 2023


Die Welt ist schlecht, das Leben ist schön, Öl auf Leinwand, 135×90 cm, 2023


Fuego, Öl auf Leinwand, 49×60 cm, 2022


Primos - Hermanos, Öl auf Leinwand, 93×90 cm, 2022


Adultos conersando en silencio II, Öl auf Leinwand, 60×49 cm, 2023
Black Series


Sin titulo 01, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Sin titulo 02, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Sin titulo 03, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Sin titulo 04, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


SBloody Lungs, Watercolor and blood on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Porvenir, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Tanz, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Tanz II, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 30 cm, 2025


Duda II, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 30 cm, 2025


Duda III, Watercolor and graphite, on paper, 24 x 30 cm, 2025


Duda IV, Watercolor and graphite on paper, 24 x 30 cm, 2025


Duda V, Watercolor and graphite on paper, 24 x 30 cm, 2025


Jossie IV, Ink and graphite on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Jossie II, Charcol on paper, 40 x 40 cm, 2021


Girl, Watercolor on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, 2021


Hanging on (Land), Ink on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2022
Instalation
The Power to Sleep


The Power to Sleep , Performance instalation at Tête, 2017
The power to Sleep, at Tête, 2017
Für Immer


Für Immer, 2019
The myth of the Bird


The myth of the Bird, 2013
Object
Heimat is not Home


Heimat is not Home Work developed in collaboration with Daphna Westerman in response to the call for the group exhibition ‘Home’ at the Blue Goat Gallery, Doormat, 2022
Quadrato


Quadrato, Pencilholder, 2021
Mesa


Mesa, Table, 60×60x40 cm, 2020
Video
Mi Mano, 2025
Familia Too (II), 2025
Familia, 2014
Ir, 2022
Samaria, 2012
Parque, 2010
Recuerdo, 2011
Cementerio, 2011
Funeral Victor Jara, 2009
Bio
Studium2008 - 2009: Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Master's degree in visual anthropology, Santiago, Chile.
2005 - 2006: Accademia Nazionale Arti Cinematografiche, Diploma in Direction and Film-production, Bologna, Italia.
2003: Universidad de Chile, Architect, Santiago, Chile.
Work
2024: "UNTERWELT. Phantasie und Gedächtnis im Unbewussten", Duo Exhibition with Isabella Cavallero, Gelbe Tonne, Berlin.
2024: "Through the eyes of a Child", Group Exhibition, HilbetRraum, Berlin.
2024: "How to create a seed", Group Exhibition, Gelbe Tonne, Berlin.
2023: „To Bad to Live. Too good to die”, Group Exhibition, Roxafestival, L’Art Checkers, Bad Sülze.
2023: Open Studio Artberlin, Atelierhaus Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin.
2023: „Equivoc-arte", Workshop about release of expression, Santiago, Chile.
2022: "Más Allá", Group Exhibition, Atelierhaus Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin.
2022: "Home", Blue Goat Gallery, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.
2022: Open Studio Artberlin, Atelierhaus Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin.
2022: Schönhauser Alle Arcaden, Artspring, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.
2017 - 2021: Member of “Reflektor Neukölln“ collective, Berlin.
2021: Auction and Group Exhibition, Monopol and Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin.
2020: “The Power to Sleep”, Performance, Reflektor-Neukölln, Berlin.
2019: Collective Exhibition “Verbindung”, Painting, Instalation. Reflektor Neükolln, Berlin.
2019: “Das Mahl die Verdrängten“, Performance with Reflektor Neukölln, Berlin.
2019: “Chilean Conexión”, Group Exhibition, Glogaur Air, Berlin.
2019: “Mamihlapinatapai”, Duo Exhibition, Reflektor Neükolln, Berlin.
2018: “Schreitherapi“, Lighting Design, Reflektor Short-film.
2018: “Wasser”, Solo Exhibition, Sari-Sari, Neukölln, Berlin.
2018: “Die Kraft zu schlafen”, solo Performance-Installation, Kronenboden, Berlin.
2018: “Für Immer”, Installation, Group Exhibition, Reflektor Neükolln, Berlin.
2017: “Die Kraft zu schlafen”, solo Performance-Installation, Tâte, Berlin.
2014: “Art Weekend", Group Exhibition, Galeria Opps, Santiago, Chile.
2014: “40 emociones, 40 ideales”, Group Exhibition Galería Conejo, Santiago, Chile.
2013: “5 propuestas para un Hall”, Group Exhibition, Sound-installation “El mito del pajaro“, Centro Cultural de Recoleta, Santiago, Chile.
2013: “Poéticas del cuerpo y lo abyecto“, Fanzine Territorio Cultural, Participation with essay "La Piel", Santiago, Chile.
2013: “Filiaciones“, Fanzine Territorio Cultural, Participation with essay "Sincronismo e identidad", Santiago, Chile.
2012: “Poéticas del cuerpo y Erotismo”, Fanzine Territorio Cultural, Participation with 2 Watercolours, Santiago, Chile.
2006: “Dibujos anatómicos“, Solo Exhibition Circolo Arci Bolognesi, Ferrara, Italy.
Films
2006: “Gaynster”, main actor, Film by Paolo Cirelli, Ferrara, Italy.
2005: “L’eco della Bici”, Documentary by Pepe Rovano, Art Director, Ferrara, Italy.
2005: “La gran Funa”, main actor, Film by Paolo Cirelli, Ferrara, Italy.
Publications
2018: “El Poder de Dormir“, Novel, Editorial house “Entelequia“, Santiago, Chile.
2016: “A.S.M.R.: Hacia una nueva subjetiva sónica”, Essay, La Torna Magazine, Chile.
2010: “Estructura: Escritura de un duración”, Essay about Poststructuralismus, Art and language. Revista Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, n° 14, Chile. link
2008: “Iluminar el pasado“, Article about Limari Museum, Magazine D + A, N° 10, Pages 44-47, Santiago, Chile. link
2006: “Conocimiento, Juicio e Información“, Essay about knowledge theory, Antroposmoderno (Philosofie Website) link
Interviews
2023: Unpublished interview conducted on 26 March 2023 by Emiliano Proietti with Sebastian Diaz Rovano for the film “Work in transition”, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. link
2019: “Trampolin Magazine“, Journalist: Mónica Hinrichsen, Fotos: Violeta Leiva. link
2015: “Arte al límite“ Magazine, Journalist: Javiera Romero. link