Patricia Claro

  • 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.

    She has received the grant Fondart 07, from the government of Chile, for the project ” Paisaje Final ” ( Final Landscape) which is about pictorial restoration of Patagonia. She has also won the Academic Excellence Award in both majors of Visual Arts and Design in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has participated in II BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO, ” INTEMPERIE” in Ushuaia, Argentina, curated by Alfons Hug. This year 2010 she has been selected by IKF, Latin American Art Auction 2010, in Miami, USA.

    Selected exhibitions: LAND-SHAPE, Corporación Cultural de las Condes, Santiago, Chile; MARCO BONTA painting contest, Contemporary Art Museum, MAC, Santiago, Chile; RE-CORTE, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile; ANOTHER LANDSCAPE, Kelley Roy Gallery, Miami,USA; SHANGHAI ART FAIR, China;  ARTEBA,Buenos Aires, Argentina; FOCUS CHILI, a selection of artists for a Bicentennial exhibition, Brussels, Belgium; MIA Art Fair, Miami Convention Center, USA; SIN TITULO , Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile; among others in Chile, Colombia, Romania, Poland and USA.