Arturo Solari
Fine Arts artist, Expressive Arts Therapist (ISPA Institute, Barcelona, Spain), Educational Expressive Arts Facilitator (Salve Regina University, RI, USA) and Social Educator (UNED University, Spain).
Born in Mexico City (Mexico), he developed as a Fine Arts artist at various art institutes in Mexico and Catalonia (Spain), as well as at different artists’ studios and ateliers, some of them in Italy.
He has presented more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions in numerous countries. His artistic work relates to the intention of Art as an instrument of transformation of consciousness and society.
He has coordinated several public pictorial projects, murals and artistic works.
He has worked with expressive arts for a wide range of groups: inmates in penitentiary centres, substance abusers, HIV-AIDS affected, migrants, illiterate adults, women victims of violence, elderly, children and teenagers with personality disorders, Chagas disease affected, etc.
Between 2009 and 2017 he was part of the chore educational staff at the Expressive Arts Therapy Master Degree at ISPA and IATBA Institutes (Barcelona).
As an expressive arts therapist, he consults privately in Girona (Spain). He also offers professional supervision on the same field.
Since 2006 has participated in several artistic, educational, therapeutic and healthcare programs for a variety of peoples related to the Chagas disease in different areas, all driven at the Drassanes-Vall d’Hebron Unit of Tropical Diseases and International Medicine (Barcelona).
Since 2017 he is a current member of the WHO TG6-IEC.