Blindmirror

Name:  Sebastian Manuel Heynig Pepper
Birth Date: 23 December 1979
Nationality: Chilean and German

Web page: blindmirror

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Starting his formal artistic work as a music and saxophone student, painting has been his main stream of activity, exploring in the last 10 years video and photograph, combining in his actual multimedia performance, paintings and music.
Studies:
• Visual Art Degree in the University “Playa Ancha” in Valparaíso, Chile. 1998 – 2001.
• Music and saxophone interpretation studies since the age 12 in different academies and in the Conservatory of the Catholic University in Valparaiso, Chile for the period of 1999 – 2001.
• Music and saxophone interpretation in the “Instituto Superior de Arte” (ISA) in La Habana, Cuba. 2001 – 2003.

Works of painting, video and photography:
“En Espera…”
It is a body paint work done in La Habana, Cuba, in 2003; naked women acquire magical shapes and colors and are woven together to be reflected in a stream of beautiful photographs for its expression, subtlety and color. 

“Invisible Eye”
Is a multimedia work done from March to October 2006 during the journeys in Patagonia Argentina, from the Mountain Range of Los Andes to the Atlantic Coast, where along the route the landscape was photographed and filmed from a particular angle: from macro to micro, making abstract images, textures, shapes and colors of nature. This material consists of a collection of photographs and a video captured under the same light that the photos, where the pace of the image is given by waves, wind and natural textures which come to life in strange appearances. This work was presented in various regions of Argentina, riding a multimedia show where the video images were being set with music in real time.  This workshop was designed and presented together with Ulises Labaronnie, argentine musician living in Patagonia director of experimental music group "Ensamble Circular”.
 
Other artistic activities:
Valparaíso, Chile. From 1998 to 2001.
• Member of the Theater Company “Teatro Urbano”.
• Actor and Musical Director of the play “Harry solo para locos” based on the novel by Herman Hesse “Steppenwolf”, presented in the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar and other spaces in the Region.
• Actor and Musician in several theater plays for children in Valparaiso and Viña del Mar.
 
La Habana, Cuba. May 2001 to April 2003.
• Musical Director in a short movie produced by the Film School “San Antonio de los Baños”.
• Actor in a short film produced by the Film School “San Antonio de los Baños”.
• Actor in a short film produced by a final year student of Film Direction in the Superior Art Institute (Instituto Superior de Arte) in La Habana.
 
Cultural Center “Eros Lab” in Santiago de Chile. June 2003 to July 2005.
Founder and President of the Cultural Center “Eros Lab” in the neighborhood of Santiago in Chile, with the support of the Municipality of Santiago. The Cultural Center organizes a wide range of artists, nationals and foreigners, with musical activities, exhibitions in many art forms, in a regular way during this period. Along with this, Jazz Festivals, Theater plays, cultural community activities and personal exhibitions of paintings and photography were organized.
 
Algarrobo, V Región, Chile. January 2005
• Production of The Jazz Festival in Algarrobo, touristic location on the Pacific Coast.

 
El Bolsón, Patagonia Argentina. August 2005 to March 2007.
Musician and Visual Artist in the experimental music group Ensamble Circular settled in El Bolsón, Argentina. The Group is a multidisciplinary collective were videos, graphic design, painting and musical production takes place.
 
Europe, July to August 2007.
Member of the team of the Musical Tour of Media Banda, a chilean jazz group. Responsible for the elaboration, editing and presentation of videos in the concerts, audiovisual register of the Tour and Video elaboration for the Band.
 
Berlin, Germany. September 2007 to November 2008.
Photographic and video register of the Folk Festival in Latvia.
Lights design in "FAINT" presented  in the contemporary dance festival in Bremen-Germany and in "dock 11" in Berlin
Three collections of oil paintings in this period.

Patagonia Argentina, January 2009 to now.
Working with the experimental group Ensamble Circular making concerts and multimedia shows in different regions in Patagonia.
Now working as the producer in an audiovisual project with a native Mapuche community, making a documentary film about the roots and the cultural heritage, of this small group of people that is one of the last remaining in the area. The project will be presented to different founds of ‘intangible heritage patrimony’ and ‘cultural patrimony’ for its production and diffusion.






Exhibitions:
• Participates in a collective exhibition with oil paintings in “FAO” United Nations in Santiago, Chile. 1999.
• Participates in a collective exhibition with oil paintings “Arte Joven” in different Regions in Chile. 2000.
• Personal exhibition “En Espera…” of body painting and photography in the “International Press Center” in La Habana, Cuba. March 2003.
• Personal exhibition of paintings and photography in the “Casa Memorial Salvador Allende” in La Habana, Cuba. April 2003.
• Personal exhibition of oil painting and photography in the Art Gallery “Sala Ricardo Mesa, Café de la Niña”, in Isla Negra, Chile. May 2003.
• Music performance and personal exhibition of body painting photos in the Cultural Center “Ex-Cárcel” in Valparaíso, Chile. Julio 2003.
• Participates in the collective exhibition of “Cuban Artist” in the Central Hall of the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. 2004.
• Personal Exhibition of photography in “Araucanía Gallery” in Bariloche, Argentina. 2005
• Personal Exhibition of Photography in “Bar 4 y 10” in Santiago, Chile. August  2006.
• Personal Exhibition of oil paintings and photography in “Thelonius Jazz Centre” in Santiago, Chile. September 2006.
• Personal Exhibition of photography in “BistroBar Antrofino” in Santiago, Chile. October 2006.
• Personal Exhibition “Invisible Eye” of abstract landscapes photos in the Gallery “San Guinés” in Santiago, Chile. 2007.
• Personal Exhibition " berlin 359º " of  paintings in the Art Gallery “Sala Ricardo Mesa, Café de la Niña”, in Isla Negra, Chile. Dic.08