ALEXANDRE MONNTOYA
MISSION
For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a deep attraction to what cannot be seen, but can be sensed.
To the questions that bring no immediate answers.
To the constant duality between what we are... and what we think we are.
I’ve been painting since childhood, and oil painting has become my most honest and profound form of expression.
Through realism and hyperrealism, I explore the states of human consciousness — from the psychological to the spiritual.
I live in the mountains of Italy, where silence and introspection nourish each of my works.
THE ARTIST
My name is Alexandre Monntoya, and I am an artist inhabiting the body of a human.
I was born on January 16, 1974, in a small town in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. From a very young age, and for reasons I still can’t fully explain, I felt a constant pull toward drawing and creating. Though I grew up in a family with no ties to the art world, there was always an invisible thread connecting me to the call of creativity.
During my teenage years and early adulthood, like many, I was pushed toward pursuing a "secure" and conventional path. But life, in its mysterious and sometimes harsh ways, always found a way to realign me. It brought into my life the people, experiences, and silences I needed to reconnect with my passion. That reconnection came when I opened a small framing shop in Cali. There, surrounded by canvases and tools, I first discovered oil paint and took my first conscious brushstrokes after years of drawing quietly.
On July 1, 2001, I set foot in Spain for the first time—a country that became my home and my school for nearly two decades. Since 2020, I’ve lived in Italy, mostly in the mountains, immersed in silence, introspection, and personal growth—elements that now flow into every canvas.
Over the years, I’ve explored various techniques, but oil painting has remained my most faithful medium. My artistic language is rooted in realism and hyperrealism, with the human figure as a central vehicle of expression. I don’t seek only to portray a body—I use it as a symbol, a mirror, a tool to explore the soul.
I deeply believe that art is a language of the soul for the soul.
For me, being an artist isn’t just about talent—it’s about the ability to see what others don’t. It’s the sensitivity to capture a moment, a dream, an emotion or an invisible conflict… and turn it into an image that transcends time.
What I am passionate about communicating are the states of human consciousness, from the psychological to the spiritual. I use the moment and the dream, metaphor and fantasy, as bridges to dialogue with the viewer and awaken a question, a memory, or a deep knowing within them.
Alexandre Montoya
