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Carlos Maturana (Bororo)
Birth Name:Carlos Eduardo Maturana Piña
Birth Date:10 November 1953
Birth Place:Santiago, Chile
Death Date:-
Known For:Painting
Training:University of Chile
Movement:80’s Generation
Awards:1975 First Prize, Faculty of Arts Alumni Salon, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.1977 Corporación de Amigos del Arte Scholarship, Santiago, Chile;1978 Second Prize, Fundación Pacífico Scholarship Competition, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile;1979 Research Project Grant, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile;1980 Research Project Grant, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile;1980 Corporación de Amigos del Arte Scholarship, Santiago, Chile;1981 Corporación de Amigos del Arte Scholarship, Santiago, Chile;1982 First Prize, The Tree in Chilean Art Contest, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile;1982 Scholarship, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile;1982 Corporación de Amigos del Arte Scholarship, Chile;1983 Scholarship, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile;1985 Honor Award, VII International Art Biennale of Valparaiso, Chile;1986 Honorable Mention, Our Andean World Competition, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile;1986 Honorable Mention, National Conference of Young Art, Sala El Farol, Valparaíso, Chile;1987 Honorable Mention, V PREALC Carmen Waugh Gallery Contest, Santiago, Chile;1987 Scholarship, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile;1988 First Prize for “Central Santiago”, Urban Landscape Competition, Catholic University Gallery, Los Arcos de Bellavista, Santiago, Chile;1997 First Place, Art in the World of Coffee Competition, New Visual Arts Gallery, Santiago, Chile;2002 Bororo: Citizenship on Canvas, Artespacio, Santiago, Chile;2003 First Place, Consorcio Building Competition: One View, Eight Artists, Santiago, Chile;2004 Altazor Award, Santiago, Chile;2007 Altazor Award for From the Man on the Moon to Dolly the Sheep exhibition, Artespacio, Santiago, Chile;2008 Selected to exhibit at the International Contemporary Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Carlos Eduardo Maturana Piña, better known by his artistic pseudonym Bororo, is Chilean artist born in Santiago, Chile, on November 10, 1953. Along with Samy Benmayor, Omar Gatica, Matías Pinto D'Aguiar and Ismael Frigerio among others, he formed part of Chilean art’s 80s Generation. Bororo was his childhood nickname.[1]

Biography

Bororo studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Chile’s School of Fine Arts and in 1972, he studied under the well-known artists Rodolfo Opazo, Ximena Cristi and Eduardo Garreaud.

Teaching formed an important part of his career. From 1975 to 1981, he was a teaching assistant and teacher in drawing, painting and sketching at the University of Chile's School of Fine Arts. From 1982 to 1985, he taught a Color and Graphic Expression workshop to design students at Gaston College and from 1983 to 1985, he taught at the Drawing and Painting Workshop at the Medical College of Chile's Art and Culture Institute (Spanish: Instituto de Arte y Cultura del Colegio Médico de Chile). Between 1983 and 1984 he taught at La Brocha Art Workshop, in Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro in the central Santiago neighbourhood of Lastarria. He also taught at the Planet Earth Academy of Art (Spanish: Academia de Arte Planeta Tierra).

Style and technique

Bororo belonged to the 80s Generation group, primarily made up of artists from the University of Chile faculty of art and linked to German Neo-expressionism. This generation has become famous for the innovative art they produced after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and during the dictatorship period,[2] shocking Chilean society with non-traditional painting.

Just like his contemporary Samy Benmayor, Bororo used traditional materials like oil on canvas and watercolors, as well as other less traditional materials like latex and India ink on paper. His shapes are almost like children's drawings, spontaneous, humorous and full of color.

His work is notable for its symbolism, its basic shapes and the use of colour splatters that represent everyday objects.

Career

Work

Works in public collections

Fábrica de Paté de Chungungo en Tunquén, 1993, acrylic on canvas, 168 x 200 cmEl Poeta y la Muerte, 1995, lithography, 76 x 56 cmPaisajes con Arboles

Retrato, 1978, oil and latex on canvas, 170 x 110 cmSin título, 1979, mixed techniques on canvas, 220 x 66 cm

Monumento de Todo Esto, 1991, oil on canvas, 170 x 139 cmEl Farol, 1992, oil on canvas, 195.5 x 150.5 cmSin título, 1991, oil on canvas, 58 x 58 cm

El Califont, graffiti and acrylics

Pingüinos, 1996, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm

Como Pez en el Agua, oil on canvas, 83 x 97 cm

Los Bohemios, acrylics on canvas, 200 x 167 cm

Sin Título

Extraterrestre llegando a mi casa, 2005, acrylics on canvas, 187 x 168 cm

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
Joint exhibitions

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.artistasplasticoschilenos.cl/biografia.aspx?itmid=647 Carlos Maturana (Bororo) Biography (in spanish)
  2. http://www.artistasplasticoschilenos.cl/generacion.aspx?itmid=73 Generaciones - Promoción Ochenta, (80`s Generation)

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