Born in 1918 in Santiago, Chile.
He studies architecture at the
Catholic University in Santiago, Chile
and at the Columbia University in New York, USA.
Artistic activities:
1943-1950: He lives in New York dedicated to the
painting and engraving.
1948-1950: He works at the " Atelier 17 " conducted for
Stanley William Hayter in the city of New York.
1950-1953: He lives and works in Paris.
1956: he organizes in Santiago, Chile, the " Atelier 99 " where
he
trained the first generation of Chilean engravers.
1961-1964: Director of the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
1964-1969: He returns to live to New York.
1969-1973: Director of the Museum of Fine Arts
in Santiago, Chile.
In 1974 he resigns to the Direction of the Museum
and he travels
to live in Barcelona.
1978-1982 He lives and works in London and Rome.
1990-1993 Director of The Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile.
Some of his main individual exhibitions:
New York 1945-1950-1966-1978// Oslo 1952//
Lima Peru 1954-1960//
Sao Paulo (Brazil) 1958//
Munich 1958// Tel-Aviv 1969//
Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1959-1964-1972//
Barcelona 1974//
Madrid 1975-1976// Berlin 1976//
Santiago of Chile 1979-1981//
Sweden 1980//
México 1980// Rome 1981//
London 1982.
Through his extensive path he showed works close to the figurative surrealism. He developed recurrent images that did that his paintings were recognizable with characteristics of his own. Couples bound in the bed and in suggestive poses of tango, the air perspectives of human multitudes and the design of checkerboard are some of his most used subjects. Some themes generated diverse series as are the bicycles,
the beds, the kites and the volcanos.
He painted with oils, watercolors and acrylic, but what
he loves the best was the engraving technique,
Dies in Santiago of Chile May 19, 1993.
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