Untitled. (2021) Gravures & estampes par Ivonne Chia

I have known Ivonne Chia for a long time, more than thirty years, and before that I already knew her silent work, full of spaces that become giants, places that give way to the interpretation of permanent changes. Visions accumulated in a memory that addresses all directions and makes one suspect that there is always more.
She does not draw on the matrix, she meets the wooden plank sliding on it from the accumulated perception of the day. She does not draw on the metal plate, she transforms the matrix from the deepest memory lodged in some part of her person. She does not title her works, she likes the observer to play at discovering and creating.
To write this review I asked her for a short text in which she named relevant elements of her work! She sent me this, maybe all of the above should be deleted:
"A long time ago a phrase came to my head and I wrote it on a paper here in Iquique and I found it by chance in the middle of a pandemic and confinement:  Without saying anything I express everything"

by Monique Verdu

1979: Graduated in Textile Design, at University of Chile, Santiago.

1992: Bachelor of Art, Engraving, at Catholic University of Chile.

2006: Postgraduate degree in Restoration of Movable Cultural Heritage at University of Chile.

Complementary studies

1986: "Advanced Color" by Eduardo Vilches. Universidad Católica de Chile.

1987: "Basic Painting" by Ana María Fernández. Universidad Católica de Chile.

1988: "Pastel Painting" and "Basic Painting" by Ana María Fernández. Universidad Católica de Chile.

1989: "Taller Color" by Eduardo Vilches. Universidad Católica de Chile.

1991: "Cultural Aspects of China" by Ding Wen Lin. Universidad del Pacífico.

1993: Seminar "Conservation of Works of Art on paper" by Francisca Comandini and Paloma Mujica, Cultural Institute of Las Condes.

1996: "Theory of the Perception of Colors" by Bernard Roué. Universidad Católica de Chile.

2001: "Etching in Steel Course" by Blanca Muñoz Gonzalo and "Etching course, salt aquatint and pictorial manner" by Sandro Pazzi. Antonio Saura Engraving Workshop, Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, Spain.

2005: "Traditional Japanese Water Color Woodcut" by Masahiro Takade, Shinkichi Numabe and Raita Miyadera.

Residence in the Studio of Mari Yamaryo, Curator. Conservation practice on paper. Tokyo Japan.

2007: 1st Latin American Symposium on the Physical and Chemical Methods in Archeology, Art and Cultural Patrimonial Conservation. Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2008: Conservation factors: material and art, by Ulrich Lang, Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany.

2009: "Waterless lithography" workshop by Jeff Sippel. Taller 99.

"Burin" workshop by Mauro Filipponi. Taller 99.

Other activities:

1999-2000 and 2003–2004: Member of the Board of Directors, Cultural Corporation Taller 99.

Since 2002: Member of the Curatorial Commission, Palacio Astoreca, Iquique, Chile

Since 2006: Conservative and Restorer specialist in paper. 11e Triennale Mondiale de l’Estampe. Chamalières, France.

• Nationalité: CHILI
• Date de naissance : date inconnue
• Domaines artistiques: Représenté par une galerie,
• Groupes: Artistes Contemporains Chiliens Artistes présentés par une galerie