Alicia Villarreal (artist) explained

Alicia Villarreal
Birth Name:Alicia María Villarreal Mesa
Birth Place:Santiago
Birth Date:December 1957
Nationality:Chilean
Occupation:Visual arts
Notable Works:Ejercicio de copia
Musba, Museo de Barrio
Condición de lugar

Alicia María Villarreal Mesa (born December 1957) is a Chilean visual artist, professor, and curator.[1] She specializes in avant-garde conceptual art and experimentalism. She studied the visual arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and later at the Erg Saint-Luc School Search Graphique in Brussels. Her work shows "a reflective dimension on personal and collective memory and on language and the means of artistic production."[2]

In 2003, she was nominated for the Altazor Award's category for Installation and Videoart for her work Ejercicio de copia.[3] Five years later, Villarreal received another nomination for the same award and category for Musba, Museo de Barrio and yet again in 2009 for Condición de lugar.[4] [5] In 2010, she finally received the Altazor Award for Grabar el Territorio, en la muestra colectiva Territorios de Estado: Paisaje y Cartografía de Chile, Siglo XIX and in that same year was decorated by the Circle of Critics of Chilean Art.[6] [7]

Villarreal has participated in several solo and group exhibitions during her career, among them the Fifth Valparaíso International Art Biennial in 1981, Ave 87, the video installation of the Arnhem Audiovisual Festival in the Netherlands in 1987, the first Visual Arts Biennial of Mercosur - Vertiente Cartography in Porto Alegre a decade later, the 2012 Havana Biennial,[8] and exhibitions of her works Los Límites de la Fotografía, Campos de Hielo, Arte Joven en Chile (1986-1996), Chile: 100 años tercera etapa, La Escuela Imaginaria, Territorios de Estado, Trienal de Artes Visuales and Exposición Centenario at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2009 and 2010 respectively), Mavi la Colección at the Museo de Artes Visuales (2011), and other smaller exhibits elsewhere in Chile, Latin America, the United States of America, Canada, and Europe.[2] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. News: Aedo. Katherine. La vanguardia creativa encontró su lugar en la ciudad. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 21 April 2011. es.
  2. Web site: Alicia Villarreal (1957-). artistasplasticoschilenos.cl. Chilean Museum of Fine Arts. 24 June 2013. es.
  3. Web site: Alicia Villarreal - Ejercicios de copia. premioaltazor.cl. Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. 24 June 2013. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20101228090525/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/alicia-villarreal-2/. 28 December 2010.
  4. Web site: Alicia Villarreal - Musba, Museo de Barrio. premioaltazor.cl. Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. 24 June 2013. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20110831195121/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/alicia-villarreal-3/. 31 August 2011.
  5. Web site: Alicia Villarreal - Condición de lugar. premioaltazor.cl. Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. 24 June 2013. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20110901004635/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/alicia-villarreal/. 1 September 2011.
  6. Web site: Alicia Villarreal - Grabar el Territorio, en la muestra colectiva Territorios de Estado: Paisaje y Cartografía. Chile, Siglo XIX. premioaltazor.cl. Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. 24 June 2013. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518085307/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/alicia-villarreal-4/. 18 May 2015. dead. dmy-all.
  7. News: Premios se entregarán en enero en el GAM: Círculo de Críticos de Arte escoge a los mejores del Bicentenario. 28 November 2017. El Mercurio. 12 December 2010. es.
  8. News: Ortiz de Rozas. Marilú. Galería Animal: Objetos de uso público. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 11 May 2012. es.
  9. News: Ortiz de Rozas. Marilú. Se inaugura mañana, en Galería Patricia Ready: SOS de un jardín en préstamo. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 3 August 2010. es.
  10. News: Silva Astorga. Daniela. Desde hoy, en Galería Metropolitana: Maquetas que reviven un fantasma. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 21 June 2010. es.
  11. News: Armendáriz Azcárate. Maite. Nuevo Centro de Arte Contemporáneo se suma a la vida cultural de Las Condes. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 10 April 2011. es.
  12. News: Lara B.. Carolina. Galería Animal: Objetos de uso público. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 31 May 2002. es.
  13. News: Silva Astorga. Daniela. La apuesta 2011 del centro cultural gira en torno a la comunidad: Plantas y objetos cotidianos se convierten en arte en Matucana 100. 24 June 2013. El Mercurio. 16 April 2011. es.

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