Sebastian Andia
Sebastian Andia is an Argentine architect and artist who has been developing his artwork since 2001, alongside his architectural practice. His artwork has been exhibited in solo and group shows in cities such as Mendoza and Buenos Aires in Argentina, New York and Washington DC in the USA, and Tokyo, Japan. As an architect, Sebastian has been a Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects since 2012. Sebastian has been focused on exploring the intersection of art, architecture, and human perception. Previously, he worked as a Lead Designer at Asymptote Architecture in New York City. He holds a Master of Architecture from the AA School in London and has taught at several prestigious institutions, including the AA and The Bartlett School of Architecture.
Sebastián’s art is an instinctive process, connecting his inner world with its external expression. His work evolves naturally, guided by intuition, free from predefined meanings or cultural constraints. For him, abstraction is a way of thinking, offering insights beyond words and connecting with existence in its purest form. His drawings suggest architectural or figurative ideas, yet remain grounded in spontaneity and the immediacy of creation. Each piece reflects a moment in time, becoming part of a continuous journey of growth, transformation, and connection with the mysteries of life and the unknown.
Mauricio Salatino, a.k.a. Maryland Supreme
Mauricio Salatino, also known as Maryland Supreme (born in Argentina, an Argentinian/Italian/British citizen currently living in London, UK) spent most of his professional life as a software engineer working on building the cloud and open-source tools. His art exploration started early in high school when he chose an art-oriented track instead of science for some strange reason. This artistic exploration significantly hindered his math and scientific skills when he started his engineering career. Still, it was the beginning of a deeper exploration that never stopped.
Over the last 10+ years (2013 to 2026), Maryland Supreme has been creating and exploring the interconnections between the natural world and the unknown. This exploration into the visual realm connects familiar objects and entities and frames them with abstract concepts and contradicting messages to promote broader interpretations.
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Instagram handle: @sebastian.andia & @marylandsupreme
Sebastian Andia & Mauricio Salatino
1. Inspiration & Style
We came at this from opposite ends. Sebastian has been making work since 2001 alongside his architectural practice, drawing instinctively and letting it evolve free of predefined meaning. For him abstraction is a way of thinking, not a style. Mauricio chose the art track over science in high school for some strange reason, spent his professional life building software, but he never stopped exploring his artistic side as he has spent the last ten years connecting familiar objects to abstract concepts and contradicting messages.
The Sabiduría Universal style became ours when we stopped trying to reconcile our backgrounds and started layering them instead: a playful approach to combining artistic styles that let the scientific, the structural and the creative talk back to each other.
2. Creative Process
We start from a question rather than an image. This series began with one we couldn’t let go of: the universe is expanding, but expanding towards what, and will it contract at some point? From there the work is multi-layered and handed back and forth, each of us answering what the other put down, which stops either of us settling into a fixed meaning too early. Nothing is planned through to a finish; each piece is a moment in time that belongs to a longer journey of growth and transformation.
3. Artistic Influences
Inspired early on by modern art, Sebastian found in drawing an intuitive way to channel himself, to decant what needs to come out. Abstraction, colour and geometry remain central to his work, where each drawing evolves spontaneously, capturing a moment in time and leaving its meaning open to the viewer.
For the other half, Maryland Supreme, abstraction is used as a way of thinking, a route to insight that sits beyond words. Where the two meet is drawings that suggest architectural or figurative ideas without ever resolving them.
4. Emotion & Expression
The work lives between the infinite and the intimate, and that is an emotional register before it is a conceptual one. A great deal of it is about the stress the unknown imposes and the questions that pop up when we jump from exploring something as small as bacteria to the infinite and mind blowing scale of our universe. We are not trying to make anyone feel small. We want someone standing in front of a drawing to feel the pull between the microscopic and the cosmic, and to leave reflecting on how completely the two are bound together.
5. Standout Projects
We drew the first two rings in 2023 at A3 and then A2: the creation of matter, then how we arrived at where we are now. By the time we reached the third subject, the future of evolutionary consciousness, the paper had to grow with it.
So we went to 1500 × 900 mm, and the physical expansion of the format became part of the argument rather than a presentation choice.
“El profeta iluminado” is the one artwork that we keep returning to: as enlightenment can’t be forced, it is a process involving the prophet, the audience and the language between them, and decoding prophecies is a lost art of ancient civilisations that we are doing nothing to recover.
6. Feedback & Growth
Collaborating is a continuous version of this. Every layer one of us added was a response to the other’s, so the work was never ours alone for long enough to get precious about. With audiences we take the view set out in El profeta iluminado: a message only matters if someone is willing to trust it before they understand it, and that trust can’t be forced from either side.
7. Motivation & Inspiration
The whole series is a forward only journey and we treat the quiet periods the same way. Adelante, Secuencia, Adelante puts it plainly: the sequence of events is already set, there is no alternative path forward. So when the work stalls we keep moving through it rather than wait for it to resolve itself. Or as another piece in the expansion ring says: creating something new is hard, the universe has its ways, and slowly but surely things move forward.
8. Exhibiting Work
Having “El Profeta Iluminado / The Enlightened Prophet” at a few Holy Art shows helped us connect with a growing community of artists in London. Being able to show our work in such a multicultural city helped us expand our connections and get a wide range of feedback from the audience.
9. Future Goals
The series ends by promising more to come, and we meant it. The outer ring is still the smallest of the three and asks the hardest question, so that is where the work wants to go next: further out, at that scale. What we want most is for the rings to be shown together rather than selected from. The argument only lands when a viewer can walk from A3 to a metre and a half and feel the expansion at the scale of their own body.
We, Maryland Supreme (Mauricio Salatino) and Sebastian Andia, are producing new collections as we speak, so keep an eye on our Instagram accounts. We are looking forward to taking part in more Holy Art shows.
10. Audience Connection
We hope to make people curious. Our artistic exploration has been focused more on asking questions than finding answers. If the work sends someone off on their own exploration, and they pass it to the people they know who are looking for deeper meaning, it has done what we wanted.
