ART PROFILE: Alejandro Vigilante

Alejandro Vigilante always knew painting was his destiny, but after several years in an unfulfilling banking career he realized he needed to follow his passion and in his father's footsteps. He was born in 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of artist Juan Vigilante (who died when Alejandro was 4 years old), an architect who defied convention by leaving architecture because of his sudden success during the art boom in the 1960s as an abstract surrealist painter. Painting was a way to feel close to my father and a way to get to know him, he says.

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