CARLOS ZUNIGA

CARLOS ZUNIGA

CARLOS ZUNIGA

CARLOS ZUNIGA

CARLOS ZUNIGA

CARLOS ZUNIGA

Biography

Nationality: Chilean-Italian
Studies: School of Arts, Universidad de Chile
Age: 36 years old

Carlos’ work use the dynamic of appearance and disappearance, proposing metaphorical representations of the events that took place in Chile under Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.

The artist works in first instance with photographic prints of anonymous subjects. These images are transferred onto phone book pages – “an element easily identified by the viewer.”

Upon closer inspection, thousands of names have been erased or blacked out of each page in a dramatic and poetical allusion to the hundreds of people who were detained, and subsequently “disappeared”, during the oppressive period imposed on Chile between 1973 and 1990.

“I look for the best way to represent an idea” Zuniga says, “I think the first impression of an artwork should be superficial, in order to produce effective language retention. After that, the secondary readings will emerge.”

Zuniga’s poetic interpretation of these events has resulted in a graphical representation that is unequivocally unique to the artist.

Work History

Solo Exhibitions
2008        "Detained in Apnea", Florencia Loewenthal Gallery, Santiago, Chile

Group Exhibitions
2008        "Twenty First Century, Artist Prize", Universidad Católica, Chile
2008        "Full Image", Santiago de Querétaro Museum, México
2007        "Bicentenary Young Artist Exhibition", Santiago, Chile
2007        "Matta–Zuniga", Balmaceda Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2007        "Gif Project", Street Art Exhibition, Alameda Street, Santiago, Chile
2006        "Young Artist Show 2006", Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile
2005        "Hurgatorio", Juan Egenau Gallery, Universidad de Chile, Chile
2003        "Young Artist Show 2003", Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile

Awards
2007        National Art and Culture Fund, Santiago, Chile
2007        Bicentenary Young Artist Exhibition Prize, Santiago, Chile

Permanent Collections
Minera Escondida BHP Billiton
Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas CCU

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