Verónica Gonzalez
Bio
Verónica González Ugarte (Santiago de Chile 1973)
Visual artist lives and works in Santiago de Chile. His work is related to different perspectives
related to nature, working on the qualities of fragility, volubility and
elementality, his work considers a journey that goes from the use of pens, paper
of rice, silk, to countless elements that refer to the original to a process of
industrial beta, with which he displays his concern about the effects that current events are having on him.
bringing to our cultural and ancestral identity. His work is a journey through Nature,
for its multiple forms, under its particular gaze. The use of different languages, we
It speaks of the singular and the multiple, of doing, repetition, time, subtlety and strength,
all qualities present in nature.
Among his recent individual exhibitions, “An infinite of greens” stands out. Gallery
Sextant, Bogotá, Colombia 2023 “One Hundred Views of the Mount” Artespacio Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2021. "Biomimesis" Sextante Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia 2018. “A Single Thread” Mixx
Gallery, Telluride, Colorado, United States 2018. “Elemental Fibers” Artespacio Gallery,
Santiago Chile 2017, “Nature and Memory” Sextante Gallery, Bogotá Colombia 2015. Thus
as group exhibitions “Constelaciones” Sextante Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia 2023.
“Fresh legs” Insel Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2022. “Dialogues in the territory” Sextante Gallery,
Bogotá, Colombia 2021. “Small format” Museo el Castillo, Medellín, Colombia 2021.
“Contrasting Shapes” Museu Textil Sao Paulo, Brazil 2020. “VII International Biennial of
Etching Engraving” Valladolid, Spain 2020. “Treasures of America” Dom Luis I Foundation.
Cascais, Portugal 2020.
His work is found in public and private collections in Chile and abroad.
Statement
Fragments of an unfathomable world
Verónica González Ugarte
I remember the mangroves, the vines, the figures and the interconnected lines. The trees and roots intertwined, growing one inside the other, on top of each other, around the other. A constant growth, peaceful but never calm. Aerial, superficial roots, buried in water.
The jungle is a network, a great root composed of all its elements. They hug, they get tangled... it is difficult to isolate the fragments. This intimate interconnection of elements is the basis of my work.
It all starts organically, depending on what happens along the way. Monocopies, photographic records, painting, engraving, texts and drawings are articulated and mixed. They are relationships built based on the experience lived in the places visited, the research carried out for several years in various natural landscapes of the world and my own sensations, selectively observed through my gaze.
Imagining drawings, translating the landscape into a graphic representation supported by the memory of the photographic image is part of my interest. My work is a journey through nature, through its multiple forms, through an infinite range of greens, with the particular gaze of an artist. The use of different languages tells us about the singular and the multiple, about doing, repetition, time, subtlety and strength,
all qualities present in nature.
I seek to expand the space, to spread what is experienced as an energetic manifestation of a thought. Nature has mobilized and we have humanized it. The ecosystem and its living beings have acquired a new form, a new language and meaning. An explosion within us and in the natural world, a new search and reality.
Observe the natural kingdom and take it to the universe of visual forms, investigating the possibilities of its forms and their natural meaning. Everything is alive, everything moves, crawls, moves, everything merges into one and with the environment.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
