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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Neuroscientist. Former Fellow
of von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, British Royal Society, Ford
Foundation, Foundation´s Fund for Research in Psychiatry,
former Full Professor (tenured) at College of Medicine (USF, FL
USA). Fiction writer. Several local and regional art exhibits and
awards. A work of art is thus the end result of a specific process
– possessing a specific form and aesthetic, it serves no purpose
except that of channeling a very specific form of energy. It is
always a sort of communicative performance. It allows man to
plumb his own conscience and to void it. In fact, it is only within
empty spaces that energy is able to unleash its own creative
force. Consequently, by asking how to develop this energy in the
face of the complexity of the world, questioning the need for
free mental space, man is experiencing a journey where reality
and the virtual go hand in hand: two dimensions which are no
longer disjoined, in that the virtual is nothing other than an “as-
if” reality. Now, the contents aspect of any work of art lie in the
presupposition that the artist is in fact able to explain the most
concealed of man’s movements and desires. Once this clarity
has been acquired, the artist can purposefully use the talent he
has been given. His raw material will always be the conscious
awareness of his own energy, his mental resources. (Excerpt)

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