Announcement

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Twelve Chilean Women Visual Artists have come together to work in a unique project

through which different art disciplines will meet. 

Working with a total of twelve titles--six by Gabriela Mistral and six by Isabel Allende--

[each artist will chose one of these works], the artist will have two copies of each book

One of the books will be "intervened creatively and uniquely"

resulting in a one of a kind signed art work .

Each artist is free to choose the technique she wishes to apply: oil, watercolour, textiles and others.

 

The books will be auctioned in pairs:  one book will have been transformed in a work of art to be treasured and displayed and the second "twin" book will be for your reading pleasure.

 

 

About the Project

 

The Gabriela Mistral Foundation is grateful to the members of ARS FACTUS, an organization of Chilean visual artists for their interest and generous collaboration with the project “Libros Intervenidos: twelve Chilean Women Artists’ works in honor of Gabriela Mistral and Isabel Allende.”

 

The project is curated by Rocio Alvarado Aranda, Chief Interim Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York and Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, Director of the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, US and Founder of the Chapter in Chile of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, NY.

 

A percentage of the proceeds to support the projects of the Foundation.

 

 

Meet the Artists

 

The Gabriela Mistral Foundation would like to thank the following artists who are participating in this important project: 

 

                    Denise Blanchard ~ Ximena Cousiño ~Amelia Errázuriz ~ Maite Izquierdo ~

Catalina Mena Urmenyl ~ María José Mir ~ Alejandra Morales

                   Carolina Oltra ~ Catalina Prado ~ Eliana Simonetti ~ Guadalupe Valdés ~ Angela Wilson

and Fernanda Meza, Project Manager ARS FACTUS

 

 

About ARS FACTUS

 

 

ARS FACTUS, is an independent association of twelve Chilean visual artists, foregrounds contemporary art works and curatorial projects that reflect the multiple interactions between art and life, art and the public sphere, creative artistic capital and women empowerment, and explores the possibilities of this context as well. The artistic collective is attentive to regional cultural developments, without sacrificing the scope of international views, and enhances its projects with exhibitions, auctions, conversations, art fairs-galleries-museums-&-workshop walks, and events on contemporary art, urban planning, architecture, music, literature, and cultural heritage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with the support of