Patricia Claro

ACADEMIC HISTORY

2003 - 2005    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) - Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Arts
1978 - 1982    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) - Design
1981 - 2009    Work in Painting, Etching, Drawing and Watercolor workshops conduted by selected artists.
2008 - 2009    Tutoring theoretical conducted by Gonzalo Pedraza (Universidad de Chile)
2009 - 2012    Tutoring theoretical conducted by María Olga Giménez (Universidad de Chile)          

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

2009-2012-“5 Temas para un proyecto de pintura”, professor, School of Arts, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Painting Studio and developing  project conducted by Patricia Claro and Andrea Domínguez.
1984         -Assistant Professor in Escuela de Arte PUC, with Professor Hernán Miranda in the subject Taller de Pintura.
                 -Participation with Director of Escuela de Diseño of Universidad Católica de Chile, Sergio Silva, in Trabajos de Proyectos. Study Area of Escuela de Diseño.
1983         -Assistant Professor in Escuela de Diseño PUC, with Professor Isabel Baixas in the subject Taller de Diseño Textil.
                 -Assistant Professor in Escuela de Arquitectura PUC, with Professor Robert Holmes in the subject Taller de Módulos y Formas.
1982         -Assistant Professor in Escuela de Diseño PUC, with Professor Robert Holmes in the subject Taller de Diseño.         

DISTINCTIONS

2011             Selected for “FRESH PAINT”, book edited by Selene Wendt, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway.
2009             Selected for “INTEMPERIE”, 2nd Biennial of the End of the World, May 2009, curated by Alfons Hug, Ushuaia, Argentina.
2007             Fondart Scholarship Category Visual Arts. Project “Paisaje Final“ of painting and Patagonia photograph.
2004             Honor Scholarship due to academic excellence in Escuela de Arte (PUC)
1980-1982   Honor Scholarship due to academic excellence in Escuela de Diseño (PUC)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012    October/November- “WATER”, Kelley Roy Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, USA.
2011    December- “TIME AND RIVERS DON’T FLOW BACK”, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile
2009    October- “ANOTHER LANDSCAPE”, Kelley Roy Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, USA.
2008    December- Exhibition “RE-CORTE”, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012    August- Muestra de Apertura, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile.
2011    May-September- Exposición Itinerante Seleccionados Concurso Internacional de pintura TERAIKE, Museo Regional de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Santiago, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires Argentina.
2011    May- Art Pad San Francisco, Contemporary Art Fair, San Francisco, USA.
2010    December- IKF Latin American Art Auction 2010, International Kids Fund of Jackson Memorial Foundation, Miami, USA.
2010    July- “Claro, Gómez, Malig”, Animal Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
2010    July- ArtHamptons, International Fine Art Fair, New York, USA.
2010    June- ARTEBA, Contemporary Art Fair- Animal Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010    May- NEXT IDENTITY, International Videoart Event, Parakino–Lanzia Centre for Conteporary Art, Gdansk, Poland.
2010    January- MIA, Miami International Art Fair- Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, USA.
2009    December-March- SIN TÍTULO, Selected Chilean Contemporary Painting Exhibition curated by Camila Marambio, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
2009    December- ELEMENTS X 10, Kelley Roy Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, USA.
2009    November- “BORDERS+SEGMENTS”, 6th Edition of the International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, 2009, Florean Museum, Romania.
2009    November- “5th WATER HOMAGE”, International Art Expo Group, Institut Alexander Von Humboldt, Colombia.
2009    August- FOCUS-CHILE, Bicentennial exhibition organized by the Embassy of Chile, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2009    October- DOCE X DOCE, selected artists by Art Critics AICA, Sala Universidad de Talca, Santiago, Chile.
2009    August- “FUNDACION MIRAME”, Sala Corpbanca, Santiago, Chile.
2009    June- Collective Gallery UWANTART, Shanghai, China.
2009    April-May- “INTEMPERIE”, 2nd Biennial of the End of the World”, curated by Alfons Hug, Hangar del Aeropuerto Viejo, Ushuaia, Argentina.
2008    September- SHANGHAI ART FAIR, Shanghai, China.
2008    May- ARTEBA 08, International Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008    April- Arte Al Límite Art Fair, Centro Cívico de Vitacura, Santiago, Chile.
2008    January- “PAISAJE FINAL”, Fondart Regional Project about painting and Photography of Patagonia in Chile, Espacio Arte Aysén, Coyhaique, Chile.
2007    November- “EN TRANSITO”, Galería Mucha, Binational Chilean-Argentinean Project, Mendoza, Argentina.
2007    November- Binational Chilean-Argentinean Project, Gallery Alliance Francaise, Mendoza, Argentina.
2007    October- “Pintando La Patagonia”, Selected for Teraike Contest, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007    September- “EN TRANSITO”, Galería Animal - Binational Chilean-Argentinean Project, Santiago, Chile.
2007    August- “Pintando La Patagonia”, Selected for Teraike Contest, Corporacion Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
2007    July- “LAND-SHAPE”, Bipersonal Painting, Instituto Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
2007    July- “CONCURSO MARCO BONTA”, Collective selected artists, Museo Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Santiago, Chile.
2007    July- “Pintando La Patagonia”, Selected for Teraike Contest, Museo de Artes Visuales Surazo, Osorno, Chile.
2007    July- “Pintando La Patagonia”, Selected for Teraike Contest, Coyhaique, Chile.
2007    May- “Pintando La Patagonia”, Selected for Teraike Contest, Centro Cultural Estación de Puerto Varas, Chile.
2007    April- Colectiva Galería de Arte Bosque Nativo, Puerto Varas, Chile.
2007    March- “Pintando La Patagonia”, Selected for Teraike Contest, Coyhaique, Chile.
2005    December- Bachelor on Arts Degree Exam, Campus Oriente Taller 1, Santiago, Chile.

ART FAIRS

2011    May- Art Pad San Francisco, Contemporary Art Fair, San Francisco, USA.
2010    July- ArtHamptons, International Fine Art Fair, New York, USA.
2010    June- ARTEBA, Contemporary Art Fair- Galería Animal, La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://www.arteba.org/arteBA10_web/contenido/galerias/animal.html
2009    September- SHANGHAI ART FAIR 2009, Uwantart Gallery, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China.
2008    September- SHANGHAI ART FAIR 2008, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China.
               May- ARTEBA 08, International Art Fair, La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
               April- Arte Al Límite Art Fair, Centro Cívico de Vitacura, Santiago, Chile.


ART BIENNIAL

2009    April-May- “INTEMPERIE”, 2nd Biennial of the End of the World”, curated by Alfons Hug, Hangar del Aeropuerto Viejo, Ushuaia, Argentina.  http://universes-in-universe.org/esp/bien/bienal_del_fin_del_mundo/2009


INTERVIEWS, TEXTS, PUBLICATIONS

2011    -Report- “Patricia Claro: Le robo al Río Bueno Ocho Segundos de Tiempo”, by Cecilia Valdés Urrutia, Artes y Letras, Diario El Mercurio, November 2011, Santiago, Chile, p. E8-E9.
2011    -Report- “Pintores de Chile y Argentina se unen en la Patagonia”, by Cecilia Valdés Urrutia, Artes y Letras, Diario El Mercurio, April 2011, Santiago, Chile, p. E8-E9.
2011    -Report- “Concurso de Pintura Realista Teraike”, by Simona Spinola, Periódico Al Límite Nº 59, 2011, Santiago, Chile, p. 30-31.
2010    -Interview- “Patricia Claro, UNA EPISTEMOLOGÍA PICTÓRICA”, by Gina Benvenuto, Al Límite Art Magazine, Nº 44, September-October 2010, Santiago, Chile, p. 54 to 60.
             -Interview- “Patricia Claro, UNA INDAGACION MENTAL”, by Gina Benvenuto, Periódico Al Límite Nº 61, August, 2010, Santiago, Chile, p. 16-17.
             -Interview- “Patricia Claro: LIQUID LANDSCAPES”, by Denise Colson, Art District Magazine, Volume 1, Nº4, February - March, 2010, Miami, USA. http://artdistricts.com/patricia-claro-liquid-landscapes/
             -Agenda- “Patricia Claro, Sin Título”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales Nº 55, January 2010, p. 31.
2009    -Agenda- “Patricia Claro, Essence Borders”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales Nº 53, November 2009, p. 31.
             -Art News- Art Magazine ART PULSE, Florida Vol 1 Nº1, October-November 2009, p. 48.
             -Art News- Art Districts Florida Vol 1 nbr 21, October-November 2009, p. 18.
             -Art Guide- MAG, Miami Art Guide Magazine, September-October 2009, p. 54.
             -Report- Art “La Docena Elegida”, Vivienda & Decoración edition nbr 692, El Mercurio, October 10, 2009, p. 30-33.
             -Guide- ”La Apuesta de los Críticos de Arte”, by Daniela Silva, El Mercurio, October 2009, p. A27.
             -Report- “Proyecto Mírame Azul, El Arte de la Solidaridad”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales nbr 51, September 2009, p. 31.
             -Report- “El Arte de Incluir”, Revista MUJER nbr 1402, Diario La Tercera, Sunday, August 23, 2009, p. 44-46.
             -Agenda- “Colectiva en Museum of the Americas”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales nbr 49, July 2009, p. 37.
             -Agenda- “Patricia Claro, Colectiva Inaugural en Shanghai”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales nbr 48, June 2009, p. 33.
             -Report- “Wo Darwins Indianer Litten”, by Sebastian Preuss, Textarchiv, Berliner Zeitung, may 11, 2009, Berlin, Germany.
             -Report- ”Curador de la Bienal del Fin del Mundo quiere arte chileno”, by Carolina Lara, may 5, 2009, El Mercurio, Cultura, p. A9.
             -Report- “Se lanzó en Ushuaia la segunda Bienal de Arte del Fin del Mundo”, by Mercedes Pérez Bergliaffa, CLARÍN, April 24, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina, p. 36.
             -Report- “El Conflicto, el tema de Bienal del Sur”, by Laura Feinsilber, Ámbito Financiero, April 27, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
             -Interview- “Claros de Agua”, by María Jesús Carvallo, Revista ED nbr 161, March 2009, p. 90-91.
             -Report- “Patricia Claro”, Periódico Al Límite nbr 46, April 2009, p. 39.
             -Guide- “Se habla de”, Talleres Artísticos, Revista ED nbr 162, April 2009, p. 102.
             -Report- “Globalízate” Periódico Al Límite, March 2009, p. 46-47.
             -Clarification- Revista ED, January-February 2009, p. 140.
2008   -Report- “Especial Aniversario, 21 artistas convocados” Selected by Idurre Alonso, curator from Molaa, Revista Arte Al Límite nbr 34, November-December 2008, p.12-19.
             -Guide ED- Revista ED nbr 159, December 2008, p. 22-23.
             -Interview- “Patricia Claro: “Hago un Post Paisaje””- Magaly Arenas Zapata, Diario El Mercurio, Artes y Letras, December 7, 2008, p. E11.
             -Report- “Patricia Claro, Redescubriendo el Paisaje” Periódico Al Límite, December 2008, p. 18.
             -Social- “Mirada Artística a los Misterios del Agua”, Diario La Tercera, December 28, 2008, p. 7.
             -Agenda artistas Al Límite- “Patricia Claro expone en Shanghai Art Fair 08”, Periódico Al Límite, September 2008, p 30.
             -Interview- “Patricia Claro, Sumergida” by Carolina Díaz, Revista East Side, Nbr 33, June 2008, p. 56-57.
             -Agenda- Gente Caras “Feria poco común”, Revista Caras nbr 523, April    p. 80-81.
             -Interview- “Patricia Claro, Naturaleza Ausente”, Revista Arte Al Límite, nbr 30,             March-April 2008, p. 22-23.
             -Guide- “ARTEBA 08”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales nbr 37, June 2008, p. 10.
             -Agenda- “Coyhaique-Fondart”, Al Límite, Periódico Artes Visuales nbr 33, January-February 2008, p. 11.
             -Report- “Proyecto Fondart con pinturas de Patricia Claro, María José Concha y fotografías de José Viviani”, Diario El Divisadero, Aysén, January 16, 2008, p. 9.
             -Interview- “Paisaje Final: Pinturas y Fotografías”, El Diario de Aysén, January 15, 2008, Coyhaique, p. 7.
             -Panoramas- “Vistas de la Patagonia” Diario El Mercurio, Vivienda y Decoración, January, 2008, p. 6.
2007    -Report- “Historias de madres e hijas que decidieron ingresar juntas a la universidad”, diario La Tercera, october 14, 2007, p. 38.
             -Culture- “Inquietudes Líquidas”, Diario Las Últimas Noticias, September 12, 2007, p. 35.
             -Social- “A Descubrir La Patagonia”, Diario El Mercurio, September 2, 2007, p. A20.
             -Guide- “Diálogo de Imágenes”, Revista Casa y Decoración, Diario La Tercera, September, 2007, p. 74.
             -Agenda- “Figuración v/s Abstracción” Periódico de Arte y Cultura Arte Al Límite nbr 29, september 2007, p. 4.
             -Report- “Shanghai no deja escapar el negocio del arte, con tres ferias simultáneas”, by Tania Romero, September, 2007, Diario La Opinión, España.
             -Report- “Trozo de Realidad” Diario El Mercurio, Vivienda y Decoración, July, 2007, p. 6.
             -Arts- “Land-Shape”, Revista Blank Out nbr 24, July, 2007.
             -Report- “Naturaleza Inspiradora” Diario El Mercurio, Vivienda y Decoración, July 7, 2007, p. 36-40.
             -Panoramas- “Paisajes Pintados”, El Cartel, Diario La Nación, July 4, 2007, p. 29.
             -Plaza Cultura- “Variaciones en torno al Paisaje”, Diario La Segunda, July 3, 2007, p. 39.
             -Itinerary- “Land-Shape”, Artes y Letras, Diario El Mercurio, july 1, 2007, p. E23.


CRITIQUES

2011    -Art Critique- “Asomo a Warhol con Gusto a Poco”, Waldemar Sommer, Diario El Mercurio, Artes y Letras, December 4, 2011, p. E19.
2009    -Art Critique- “Doce x Doce”, Nena Ossa, Diptych Exhibition Doce x Doce, Universidad de Talca - AICA, October 2009.
2008    -Art Critique- “Cuando el Realismo Sugiere”, Waldemar Sommer, Diario El Mercurio, Artes y Letras, december 28, 2008, p. E8.
2007    -Art Critique- “Arte en 2007: Pobre por fuera, rico por dentro.”, Waldemar Sommer, Diario El Mercurio, Artes y Letras, December 30, 2007.
             -Art Critique- “Instalaciones en el Mavi”, Waldemar Sommer, Diario El Mercurio, Artes y Letras, July 29, 2007, p. E26.
             -Art Critique- “Miradas al Paisaje”, Waldemar Sommer, Diario El Mercurio, Artes y Letras, July 15, 2007, p. E22.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012    -Book- FRESH PAINT, edited by Selene Wendt, Texts by Paco Barragán, Tommy Olson, Michele Robecchi, Trevor Schoonmaker, Selene Wendt, Stenersen Museum, Charta Books, Oslo, 2012.
2011    -Catalogue-  “El Tiempo y los Ríos no Fluyen Hacia Atrás”, Exposición Individual Galería Animal, Texts by M. Olga Giménez, Licenciada en Letras y Literatura and Diego R. Maltrana, Dr Física Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, December 2011, Santiago, Chile.
2010    -Catalogue- SIN TÍTULO, Text Camila Marambio, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
2009    -Catalogue- FOCUS CHILI- Expo de jeunes createurs contemporains, Maison de l’Amerique Latine, Bruxelles Belgique, 2009.
             -Book- Intemperie II Bienal del fin del mundo, General Curator Alfons Hug, Goethe-Institut Río de Janeiro, Fundación Patagonia Arte & Desafío, OI Futuro, p. 104-105.
             -Diptych- “Doce x Doce”, AICA exhibition, 12 Art Critics selected 12 chilean emerging artists, Universidad de Talca - AICA.
             -Diptych- “INTEMPERIE”, Biennial of the End of the World 09, 2nd Edition 2009, from april 24 to may 24, Ushuaia, Argentina.
             -Book- “C/temp Libro de Arte Contemporáneo Mendocino” . ED Contemporáneo, Plano Azul, Portal del Arte, edited by Fundación del Interior, 2009.
2008    -Catalogue- “Patricia Claro Re-Corte”, Solo Exhibition Galería Animal, December 2008, Santiago, Chile.
             -Triptych- “Fondart Scholarship Category Visual Arts. Project “Paisaje Final“ of painting and Patagonia photograph,  Patricia Claro, M. José Concha, José Viviani. Text by Beatriz Huidobro Hott, Bachelor in Art History. Gobierno de Chile, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, January, 2008.
             -Catalogue- 17 International Art Fair ArteBa 08, Mayo 2008, La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina, p. 146.
             -Catalogue- “Shanghai Art Fair 2008”,  Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China, p. 250.
             -Catalogue- “LAP Latin-American Pavilion”, Shanghai Art Fair 2008, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China,  p. 10-11.
2007    -Triptych- “En Tránsito”, Binational Chilean-Argentinean Project, Texts by Joaquín Cociña, Art Critic and Roxana Jorajuria, Bachelor in Art History, Galería Animal and Galería Mucha, Santiago/Mendoza, September 2007.
             -Catalogue- “Pintando la Patagonia”, Selected Artists for Teraike 1st International Painting Contest Teraike, 2007, pág. 30.
             -Catalogue- “Resumen de Obras, Pintando la Patagonia”, Selected Artists for Teraike 1st International Painting Contest, 2007, p. 7.
2005    -“Corte y Reconstitución del paisaje: una Sinécdoque pictórica,” Patricia Claro, Bachelor of Arts Degree Exam presented to Escuela de Arte Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago, Chile, 2005. 

Public Collections:

-Laboratorios SAVAL, Santiago, Chile, Paisaje Final - FONDART.
-Consejo Regional de la Cultura y las Artes, Región de Aysén –obra FONDART.
 

Private Collections:

-Chile, United States, Perú, Jordan, China, Switzerland.

Patricia Claro was born in Santiago Chile, 1960.

She studied Design at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1978-1982.  From 1981 to 2009, she participated in workshops by various artists where she studied painting and engraving techniques. In 2003 she enrolled in the program of Visual Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile which she graduated from in 2005.

The decision to study a second major (Visual Arts), after a long period of experimenting with different techniques, consolidated a stage of artistic and theoretic formation. This incited a painting and video work which lead to a new approach towards the theme of landscape. At the same time, this had been an unusual and independent path which lead her to adapt to a generational change and has enabled her to share projects with young emerging artists.

She is conducting a visual investigation on the theme of landscape and water as the infinite source of images. Her personal interpretation of this scenario in movement is the result of a rigorous experimental study of the dual quality of water and its reflections. She proposes new expressive possibilities, emphasizing her particular vertical view towards landscape, Using digital image as a reference capturing water movements, she starts a painting process in which details are eliminated in order to reach the essencial elements.

The final work is reconstructed as a whole, combining a meticulous manual technique with oil paint on linen and video elaboration which demonstrate the capacity of water to reflect the environment.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

"In my visual proposal the theme of landscape refers to water, the untouched waters in south of Chile, as the sole element of the image. This element, water, represents the other: landscape. Representing the world starting from an image is definitely cutting a piece of reality and remolding it through a creative process. 

Water, lacking color, transforms into a screen through it's reflecting capacity and reveals the first visually mediated take on the surrounding. It would be as if it's look is naturally drawn to modernity. The image is already on a screen reflecting from the water, and the photographic shot recaptures this image.

This photographic image contains information and details that are not visible to naked eye observing the environment directly. And so begins a process where digital medias come to play which allow for a deconstruction of the image, that is later on reconstructed by paint through a meticulous manual technique related to the nature of water itself.. The dual nature of water is demonstrated through a separation between refracted light ( in the depth of water) and reflected light ( the masked figure ). The video plays with the infinite capacity of water to reflect the surrounding and also itself, in it's sate of continuous movement.

A vertical approach towards landscape allows me to work with the space between the surface and the depth, always in and from the water. It is through this fusion that my codification of nature manifests itself, using manual and technological methods, where the focus is the continuity from the moment an image is captured. It is a walk through the non pictorial place. I shift from the place to my landscape, to a post-landscape.

Water appears through the distortion of the reflected environment. Water movements cause the deformation of elements at it's surface and these sequences reveal it's presence, as it takes on colors which naturally doesn't have.

Visualization of the world, arises from the necessity of having an image, captured from reality, to be later on manipulated by paint or through video. These mediums allows me to rearrange information and translate part of our natural environment into a new format."