Conoce a los Artistas de UNO
Trece artistas. Treinta y nueve cuadros. Un cuerpo, reconstruido por ti
Salimos en busca de diez artistas. Encontramos catorce que no pudimos dejar fuera.
Después de semanas revisando cada portafolio que recibimos, el comité curatorial de la Chilean Australian Association (CASA) ha seleccionado a los catorce artistas que crearán UNO — We are all one, una exposición modular e interactiva que se inaugurará en Sídney este noviembre, con el apoyo del Consulado General de Chile en Sídney.
La convocatoria abierta nunca iba a ser fácil de evaluar. Pintores, ilustradores y artistas multidisciplinarios — chilenos, colombianos, brasileños, venezolanos, japoneses-australianos y australianos, tanto emergentes como consagrados — enviaron trabajos ambiciosos, personales y radicalmente diferentes en estilo. La lista de seleccionados se negaba a reducirse. Así que decidimos ampliarla, y la exposición es mejor gracias a ello.
A todos quienes postularon y no están en esta lista: su trabajo hizo que esta decisión fuera realmente difícil, y esperamos verlos en la exposición este noviembre.
LOS TRECE
Madi Baird
Painting · Australia ·
An expressive figurative painter with a command of colour that does much of the emotional work. Madi's human figures are closely observed and confidently built — technique in service of feeling rather than the other way round.
Jake Pedrana
Painting · Australia ·
Jake Pedrana’s work brings together neo-expressionism, surf culture and pop references through bold, energetic compositions. Drawing on cowboy imagery and personal memories, his paintings explore identity, nostalgia and contemporary culture with an instinctive, unapologetic approach.
Nick Hernández
Painting · Australia and Latinamerican heritage ·
Nick composes with colour, form and negative space in equal measure. There's a spatial intelligence in his work that makes it a natural fit for an exhibition built on how pieces sit next to each other.
Matt Hooker
Figurative art · New Zealand ·
Matt's figurative work carries a signature you can spot across a room — a personal handling of colour and of the human body that doesn't borrow from anyone.
Cristóbal Ibáñez (Zenabi)
Abstract art · Chile ·
Cristóbal returns to CASA after exhibiting in Chile Sentido in 2024. His abstract practice is methodical and precise — a useful counterweight in a show where thirty-nine panels have to speak to one another.
Felipe Labbé
Abstract and figurative · Chile ·
Felipe works in the gap between abstraction and figuration, with a painterly approach to the face in particular. His compositions were selected partly for how much they're likely to give the works hanging beside them.
Consuelo Larenas
Figurative art, illustration · Chile ·
Consuelo moves between graphic work and illustration with a clarity of purpose that's rare this early in a career. There's something in her line that doesn't look like anyone else's.
Tyrone Layne
Painting · New Zealand ·
Tyrone is an established artist whose work has been recognised in both Australia and the United States. He approaches the human figure and the space around it with a distinctive sense of consistency and character.
Rafaela Mori
Figurative art · Brazil ·
Rafaela's work centres on fruit and the natural world, rendered with a signature entirely her own. In a show about bodies, hers brings the question of what a body is made of.
María Pía Mosquera
Figurative art · Colombia ·
A consistent, technically assured figurative practice with a personal stamp that carries across everything she makes.
Elisa Palma
Figurative art · Chile ·
Elisa paints objects and figures with equal attention, which is a harder combination than it sounds. Still-life discipline applied to the human body.
Mia Taninaka
Multidisciplinary art and design · Australian ·
Mia brings a playful and imaginative approach to the selection. An artist and designer, she works with expressive compositions and a bold use of colour, bringing her own creative perspective to the brief.