User:Fabiokallas

Fabiokallas (Born 1982) is an freelance Puerto Rican painter and photographer.

FabioKallas (july 1st, 1982) was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and grew up in Jayuya ,Puerto Rico under the name of Luis López.Since his early years Fabiokallas has been deeply connected with the art world participating in various art competions and gaining recognition for his talented way of drawing and painting. In 2000 Fabiokallas began studying Visual Arts concentrated in Photography at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). In 2004 he was accepted as a International Exchange Student at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and expended there 1 year studying multiple disciplines of art, he decided to stay 9 more months while traveling over Spain and France especialy the city of Paris where he documented by photograph and drawings his visual experiences during his trips and portraying scenes from the daily life of the city. After expending almost 2 years in Europe Fabiokallas returned to Puerto Rico by the spring of 2006 and began working as a freelance photographer after a recess of School. He started working more deeply in his drawings and paintings and selling his works to independent art collectors in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also during this period time he collaborated and started a side project with the recognized puerto rican theather director Pedro Santalíz (may,28 1938 - april,9 2008 )http://www.prpop.org/biografias/p_bios/pedro_santaliz.shtml and founder of the independent theather company: Teatro Pobre de América. Together they organized and presented theater plays in different towns in Puerto Rico during parts of the year 2007, Fabiokallas helped to built the background stage scenarios by creating big painting formats to represent the different plays by Pedro Santalíz and by creating the cover art work of the flyers and invitations for the different plays, also they worked together by organizing various poetry readings with multidisciplinary artists in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Since 2008 Fabiokallas has been constantly working in his art, showing and selling his work in: galleries(Siena Gallery), cafés, hotels and private collections(www.coleccionreyes-veray.com/fabiokallas)in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also the artist has been travelling, documenting his photography work in a variety of locations between San Juan, New York and Europe, especially the city of Berlin where he recently moved and plan to stay and work presentng his art projects.