Art of the Americas – 2023 – Interciencia English

Art of the Americas – 2023

Manuela Viera-Gallo, Chilean artist born in Rome, Italy (1977). Works in New York since 2005. Visionaires, 2020

Oil on canvas
90 x 90cm

Her work has brought together universal collective issues, typical of the human condition, together with an intimate and contemporary perspective. During the last five years, has concentrated her artistic practice almost exclusively on painting…In his paintings, Viera-Gallo condensed in an expressive proposal that manifests itself as a multitude of voices articulated simultaneously: the voice that has been silenced, the one that has been distorted, the one that rebels and protests and exceeds, the one that sinks and the one that emerges, the one that entangles itself in familiar constellations, the one that merges sensually with the world, the one that hides behind shields and masks, disguises and smokescreens.

Comments: Cristian Silva / Photography: Juan Pablo Montalva / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Aninat Gallery, Santiago, Chile

Paula Swinburn, Santiago, Chile, 1964. Ocean, 2014

Oil on cotton paper
65 x 100 cm

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Paula Swinburn delves into a world where the state of purity and silence gives her the perfect support for her work, which leads us to a state of conscience of heightened calm. …has pursued this space and achieves it in a counterpoint where precision seizes color and makes it flow in unique compositions.

Comments: Ernesto Muñoz / Photography: Paula Swinburn / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist.

Luisa Estela del Valle Mañez, Curicó, Chile, 1959. Sails in the City II, 2019

Oil / Acrylic with matter on canvas
130 x 100 cm

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“Sails”… provides the canvas an emotional-esthetic value, with surprising results, light, color or movement effects in the nature of each landscape or sails, which serve her to interpret her landscape-related, chromatic, optical or physical versions modern versions…

Comments: Manoli Ruiz Berrio / Photography: Estela del Valle Mañez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist.

Christian Mera, 1980. Quito, Ecuador. # 25. Signatures series (2017)

Mixed technique on paper
70 x 100 cm

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Mera stands out for composing a painting in which he reveals his enormous capacity to handle the formal aspects of the craft: composition, color, textures, light… He does magic combining diverse techniques… He immerses himself in the old to develop a new language, to achieve that seal of authorship which very few attain.

Comments: María de Jesús Abad Tejerina / Photography: Pamela Corrales García / Reproduction: Courtesy of artist /

Cristián Cuevas, Concepción, Chile, 1981. Yellow Flying Atoms (2022)

Oil on Canvas
90 x 110 cm

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“The naturalistic and organic aspect of my work finds its conceptual, inspirational and metaphorical support mainly in the natural landscape, matter and space. These works are clear allusions to the plant world that surrounds us, to the esoteric nature of the spatial landscape and, above all, to the energy of our natural cosmos”

Comments: Cristián Cuevas / Photography: Cristián Cuevas / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Cristóbal Doren Villaseca, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 1971. Magic Forest (2023)

Vertical Loom Weaving
100 x 60 cm

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Each knotted strand, that suggested volume, that shy color, the voluptuous light, the bent ghost, the voracious demon, the flower of homage, the untied cord and the chain to the ceiling that holds the loom, are the conductive wool, among so many winding roads, to the creative house of the artist. To it you are invited.

Comments: Jorge Reyes Villablanca / Photography: Cecilia Heredia / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Fernando Cifuentes Soro, Santiago, Chile 1957. Valparaíso (2021)

Oil on canvas
150 cm x 250 cm

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The pigments form compositions full of chromatic vibrations that resonate with their own melody. A distinctive, accurate palette, where pure and bright colors prevail. And even when there are atmospheric variations from one canvas to another, the recurring tone is that of a vital surface and full of energy. The format is also generous … it needs the large scale to manifest itself and gain strength. A painting that, in the conquest of space, takes center stage.

Comments: Daniela Rosenfeld G. / Photography: Andrés Poheler / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Gina Intveen, Concepción, Chile, 1966. Silence (2023)

Acrylic
30 cm x 30 cm

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In my pictorial life I would like to give life to characters that invite us to relate to the simple. In a recent perspective I have sought to celebrate our richness as humans, everything that elevates us. It is very difficult to be positive, I do not always succeed.

Comments: Gina Intveen / Photography: Gina Intveen / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Juan González Bolívar, Cúpira, Venezuela, 1978. Window (2020)

Acrylic on canvas
90 cm x 140 cm

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The image of the landscape and the archetypal house has been used by the artist to creatively elaborate vital facts that have to do with intimacy or memory, but also with uprooting or estrangement . The artist takes up these themes “to return to my place of origin, to that place filled with rainy days where one breathed an air of tranquility, that is why my landscapes are more psychological than physical”

Comments: Elida Salazar / Photography: Darwin García / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /