MARGARITA BALMACEDA
BARCELONA STUDIO
BIOGRAPHY
I currently live in Chile and work from my studio in the countryside, Pirque, South of Santiago.
I had a Studio in Barcelona for 15 years and also in Oporto for 2 years.
My way of life is moving to diferent places so I also have an studio in Amatlán, México which is a place I love to learn of the nature, antience cultures and old traditions. Another city I love so much and inspire me is New York city , which is the city of anything could happen , at any time and any place. The freedom of the people, the multicultural society make my imagination flows and expand my creativity.
my paintings are definitely portraits, but I see them as if they were costumes that embody people, that play a role. When I paint I am interested in putting aside value judgments and allowing intuition and the strength of a body executing each gesture with full confidence to be the protagonists.
Accepting myself as a painter has helped me understand that no matter how much I want to direct my painting to a single style, this will never be possible because I visualize that life and situations are always eclectic, they transform and should not always be painted the same. In this way, each situation has its own peculiar way of interpreting itself and this is how I change the way I paint, but all my styles have in common that the result is a painting that collapses time, fusing the contemporary and the past, placing people specific in ancient narratives, from other times dreamed of and not lived, that perhaps never existed or ever will exist. majestic queens of a bygone era. Paintings that are to be experienced from emotions, feelings that do not make me think or intellectualize, because I do not like to think, I like things that I do not know what they are, that are absurd, because it is not necessary to know or understand everything. That mystery is what makes the painting blend between the materiality of the painting and what you want to see in it.
I have exhibited my work in many different countries and my inspiration is from all my travels . I paint what I see , what I experiment from the diferents landscapes, human forms, animals, particularly I paint woman as a misterious being charming , sometimes sinister , brilliant and strange.
I mix images of women, animals and nature that then I inmerse in fictional worlds that are characterized by having a certain barroque and fantastical air.
Budda v/s Godess
STUDIES & EXHIBITIONS
1994 Art and Graphics, Eses Alpes Institute, Santiago de Chile.
1995. Studied Fine Arts under Master Hernan Valdovinos
1997 Portrait Workshop , Universidad Catolica de Chile
1998 Graduated in Bachelors of Visual Arts, Universidad de Chile
1998 Exhibition Cultural Center , Sant Pauli , Hamburg , Germany
1999 Exhibition Ojos para el Alma, Alto Las Condes, Santiago de Chile
2001 Contemporary Art studies , Scola Massana, Barcelona , Spain
2002 Open an Art Gallery Atelier La Incubadora , Oporto , Portugal
2003 Exhibition English Institute , Young Street , Toronto, Canada
2004 Exhibition Esto Gallery, El Born, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Exhibition Gallery Sol i Nit, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Exhibition Princes´s Street Gallery, Edimburg, Scotland
2007 Exhibition Hotel Eurostars , Barcelona, Spain
2008 Exhibition Gallery Km 5 , Ibiza, Spain
2009 Exhibition Centro Culturale, Bari, Italy
2010 Exhibition Gallery MG, Barcelona , Spain
2012 Workshop of Contemporary Art, New York, Usa
2013 Exhibition Gallery Clandestina, Madrid, Spain
2014 Exhibition Gallery Fun Sore, Santiago de Chile
2015 Exhibition Auction House Lyon and Lynch, Pirque, Chile
2016 Exhibition Centro Cultural Curarrehue, Araucania, Chile
2017 Exhibition Medical Center San Cristobal, Vitacura, Chile
2018 Exhibition Gallery Manamar, Pernambuco, Brasil
2019 Participation in Global Art Festival, Gujarat, India
2019 Exhibition Centro Cultural La Condesa, Ciudad de México, México
2021 Exhibition El Domo Gallery Tulum , Mexico.
2022 Exhibition Artisa Gallery, San Nicolas , Aruba.
2023 Symposium International Odisha, India.
2024 Kensington Market Gallery , Toronto, Canada
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