Right. Many have seen in our metro Moneda paintings Guillermo Muñoz-Vera, Chilean painter based in Spain, representing the new realism, upward trend in this country and in Europe. And what becomes fashionable there, irradiated and then comes the rest of the world, and also here. How long will it take? Before it was years ago ... today with the Internet and globalization, things are updated much more rushed ... when? The arrival is imminent ... and this good since the painting is valued again and regain his throne ...
Bride, oil on canvas, 2005
recent years has imposed conceptual art, which, with strategies and employment policies has been taking over different spaces art (galleries, museums, contests ...), and has used the strategy to move to survive, cover and suffocate to highlight ... and in my opinion that has caused great damage to Chilean painting. Why can not coexist? This is true in many parts of the world but not here. Is it part of our character?
Until now, to win competitions, the focus is on experimentation, the use of other materials and languages, above all, beyond the quality .... Forget about winning a contest if you paint with oils or acrylics on canvas ...
Pool, oil on canvas, 2005
That is clear that I respect very much conceptual art, installation, performance ... but in all grades and qualities are, and much of what you see now is really bad today ...
from the house to the gym, oil on canvas, 2005
painting has always existed, exists and will exist. For me is like playing piano, super classic yet with all possibilities open.
So artists of the world, get ready to come and our time. Let's do it with clarity, honesty, willing to say and express what art really should be: human something deeper, something that we question, beauty surrounds us every day and make us more free.
Sincerely, Sebastian Garreton
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