Agustín Pontesta

ORIENTATIVE HISTORY
<br />Agustín Pontesta (San Sebastián, 1963) stands out for his intense path in both his life and his artistic career. From an early age, the need to express himself through painting woke up inside him, but it was thanks to the artist Alfredo Bikondoa that he discovered his true path. Since then he has not stopped working and evolving in parallel to a particular and genuine way of understanding the world and his surroundings. At the same time he discovered and became interested in Zen Buddhism and its philosophy. For years he attended seminars and intensive retreats. He also got to know Tibetan Buddhism through various lamas, attending and participating in courses and retreats. Attended conventions taught by the Dalai Lama himself, traveling to France, India... During this time he studied and practiced oriental art, Sumi-e, Japanese calligraphy. He lived for a time in London, motivated by Victorian painting, especially the work of the painter William Turner. In San Sebastian he was a teacher of drawing and painting. A lover of open spaces and remote places, a keen reader of books by travellers and classic explorers since childhood, Agustín fulfilled his dreams…