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In 1999 the Consulate General of Chile in New York inaugurated a little gallery for showing works of Chileans artists. From November 1999 in this room we have exhibited to 14 painters and photographers who have worked and lived in United States

Héctor Villarroel

He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1967. Graduated in School of Fine Arts of Universidad de Chile in 1990. At the beginning of his artistic career he used images and orientation coming from Latin-American indigenous and native art. After this his paintings changed toward organic forms and lately his works are organized in levels and geometrical forms of color that irrupt in the canvas, establishing a game of contradictions and juxtapositions. Villarroel has exhibited in New York, Barcelona and Valencia (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), Santiago de Chile, Washington D. C. y St. Kilda (Australia).

Mutation, oil on canvas, 38 x 48". 1998. Barcelona

Gustavo Schmidt

Schmidt has done studies in Fine Arts in the Universidad Católica de Chile and in the New York Academy of Arts. He has worked in advertising design. Schmidt painting has rooted in the realist pictorial tradition. His latest works has portrayed parsonages of New Yorker Jew orthodox community.

Peaches,oil on canvas,1996, 60 x 90 cms.

Julia San Martín

She was born in Chillán (Chile) in 1965, The San Martín works are in the Museum of Contemporary Arts and Museum of Modern Art in Santiago de Chile. Her paintings have been sold in Chile, Spain, German and United States. San Martín has exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, Praxis Gallery (Santiago de Chile), the Center of Fine Arts in Madrid, and in the “NGBK” Gallery (Berlin). Ms. San Martín has received warm comments from Chilean art critics as Justo Pastor Mellado, Nelly Richard or Waldemar Sommer. She has lived in New York during the last two years.

Sky of Tanu, mixed technique, 1998, 80 x 90''

Marcela Trujillo

Marcela is a very talented young Chilean painter that before coming to New York had already known success from Chilean artistic criticism. Her creation is framed in the neofigurative style, which could be admired in two expositions that she had in the Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago making her known even beyond the specialized artistic environment. In New York she has continued her studies in the Arts Student League.

The Frozen Itinerary in the Land of Her, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48" New York, 2000

Leonora Calderón

With Leonora Calderón the hall of exposition of the consulate inaugurated the exhibition of photographic art. Calderón is a multidimensional artist: she wrote a book about her famous grandmother Lola Hoffman, has directed groups of classic baroque and renaissance music, has written, produced and directed videos and documentaries, has done journalist photography, and finally she has been working in Boston in artistic photography intervened with digital techniques.

When Heaven meets Earth, photography, 2000, Boston

Catalina Prado

Born in Santiago in 1970, Prado graduates in arts in 1993 from the Catholic University in Chile. She has exhibited her work in several galleries in Santiago and in 1999 she won the awards New People and Johnny Walker on the Art in Santiago of Chile. Her works have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art of Santiago. During her stay in the year 2000 in New York she exhibited her paintings in galleries in New York.

Eva, oil on wood, Santiago 2000

Carlos Bogni

The distinguished painter Carlos Bogni exhibited his works in the hall of the Consulate of Chile in New York between November 30th of 2000 and January 15th of 2001. Bogni is a painter that after a successful trajectory in Chile has lived in New York for five years. In the United States he has exhibited his works in Eight Floor Gallery (Soho, NY), Generous Miracle (Chelsea, NY), 278 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Hispanic Center (NY) y The Artist Museum (Washington, DC). Before coming to New York, Bogni exhibited in Santiago of Chile in the Gallery of Tomás Andrew, in the Institute Chilean-German of Culture, in the Cultural Corporation of Las Condes, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts. In addition to this, during this period he established an artistic project named Gallery Maldita Zorra (damned vixen) in which he presented four exhibitions between 1990 and 1991. During the year 2001 Bogni won a FONDART scholarship with an artistic project called CommonPlaces.

Tree, acrylic, thermo impression, and gold on canvas, 1992-1999

Hugo Espinosa

Hugo Espinosa is a Chilean photographer that has worked in Chile and the United States on the field of advertisement photography. His works have been used in Chile by corporations such as Agfa, Daewoo y Lan Chile. In 1991 Espinosa received in Japan the first price of AIWA Photo World Contest. In 1992 he received an award in the Photographic Exhibition of the Club of Photography of Chile and in 1999 the UNICEF gave him the first price in the exhibition named Children of Chile. His exposition in the consulate named Return was done between January 18th and February 28th of 2001.

Return , photography, 11" x 14"

Contemporary Chilean Painting

In April 2001, Montecatini Gallery, sponsored by the Chilean Trade Commission, presented in our Consulate the works of four painters from the southern Chilean city of Concepcion: Gina Intveen, Luis Cuello, Jorge Guerrero y Ruben Fernandez This exposition was part of an international traveling exhibition which included; San Jose, Costa Rica, Kingstone, Jamaica and Caracas, Venezuela.

Bridge, acrilic on canvas, Concepcion 2001

Marcelo Montealegre

Marcelo Montealegre was born in 1936 and has had a long photographic career in Chile and the United States. In Chile during the 60s he was a photographer for the newspapers “La Voz”, “South Pacific Mall”, “Zig-Zag”, and the magazine “Desfile”. In this same period of time he did a graphic report for “Time” magazine and “The Houston Post”. At the end of the sixties he was a reporter for Life magazine for Chile, Argentina, Perú, and Bolivia. Living in the United States since 1968 he has worked for the magazines Newsweek, Oui, Sincro Press, Der Spiegel, and the New Yorker newspaper El Diario, among other media. In addition, he has been an audiovisual producer for the National Public Radio (NPR), college teacher, and photographer for freelance. His exhibition opened on May 24th, 2001.

Bunny/Sir Lawrence Olivier, photograph, New York 1972/1976

Patricio Mesa

Patricio Mesa was born in 1943. His painting is colorful and imaginative and with impressionist technique, portraits the picturesque Chilean landscape. Childhood games, traditional objects, churches, sewing machines, ships, make us revisit an epoch that lives in our memories. This exhibition was sponsored by the Chile Club of New York (one of the most traditional social organizations in the Chilean community living in this area) and its opening was in July 2001.

Angelmo, oil on canvas, Santiago