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Shows & Exhibitions:
2005 Art Gallery "CANAPO". Permanent Exhibition.
1998 Extension Center, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile. Individual Exhibition.
1993 Art Gallery "El Otro Sitio". Individual Exhibition.
1993 Archeological Museum, Banco del Pacífico, Ecuador. Individual Exhibition.
1992 Art Gallery "El Otro Sitio". Individual Exibition.
1991 Soyhesby's auction, New York. Participation with work, donated by the Embassy of Chile, for the Fundation "Very Special Arts".
1991 Art Gallery "Len des Pas", Washington D.C. Sponsored by the Embassy of Chile (two artists show).
1990 Art Gallery "Len des Pas." Individual Exihibition.
1990 Art Gallery " Len des pas", Washington D.C. "Special presentation of six women". (Collective show): Monique Bavaud, England. Naomi faran, Israel. Elizabeth Martineau, Haiti. Huong. Vietnam. luci Nogueira, Brazil. Francisca Valenzuela, Chile.
1990 Genesis- Hebrew Center. Collective show of paintings and sculpture, "Veinte Artistas en Nueva York."
1989 Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo. Buenos Aires, Argentina. "Segundo Encuentro Latinoamericano de la Paz." (Collective show).
1988 Instituto Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. (Individual exhibition).
1986 Municipalidad de Zapallar, Zapallar, Chile. (Collective show).
1985 Plaza del Mulato Gil, Santiago, Chile. (Collective show). Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (National Library), (collective show).
History:
FRANCISCA VALENZUELA Whenever we face the plastic work of the young and promising artist, Francisca Valenzuela, we experience a dazzling sensation, due, on the one hand to the images giving us and on the other to the recurrence and use of different techniques that enhance the personal and rich characteristics of her creations. Images of women, fragments of landscapes and still lives, elements as diverse as maps, globes and archeological remains, come together to form a whole. These topics are just starting points for the most elusive and bold plastic interpretations, characteristic of all contemporary art that we might describe as "avant-garde". The result and the process itself lead us to clearly identify a plastic personality. Her pictorial development has a design of her own that we cannot always evaluate from a single prospective. What is Francisca Valenzuela doing from a rigorous point of view? Is she creating portraits or decorative painting in the most precise and traditional meaning? I think that nothing is conventional in her. Her "sui generis" way of being and doing allows us to state only one thing: that she possesses an exceptional talent, supported by a clean and refined technique. Francisca has taken gigantic steps forward in her painting; however, her evolution is not always geared to the future. She constantly goes back to her own past to develop topics and working trails she has not jet exhausted. This is perhaps the leading thread in her work, we may describe as a plastic spiral of multiple languages. The superposition of images, the use of "frottage", the textures and colors, the polyptic composition, the fleeting arabesques of her nudes, speak of a creative temperament, always searching, feeding on everything that surrounds her to enrich herself and to insert it into the mainstream of her painting: a subtle and refined art, meticulous in craft, free of every superfluous element. Behind this, there is a restless undogmatic artistic attitude that manages to be always consistent. Contemporary art affords many possibilities to express a dimension of reality. It is somewhat of a paradox that Francisca Valenzuela resorts to the more obvious or rather classical means of expression: the portrait, the still life, the landscape. Her topics, taken separately or as a whole, are delivered at first sight with a language that strongly challenges the viewer. Her visual world is one of formal eloquence and self-sufficing power, due to the vigour with which she has built it. Valenzuela alternates reality and abstraction. Both worlds co-exist within delicate equilibrium. She selects, adapts and synthesizes her creations. The intensity of the pictorial gesture joined to the presence of color (blue, conceived as the color of thought), speaks to us as a serious art, ontologically based and meditated, that is bound to be truly appreciated. Just as in the beginning there was the "Word", in Francisca Valenzuela, the form is the center from beginning to end as befits a true plastic artist that through effort and perseverance has acquired a voice of her own. CANAPO ART GALLERY Tel :( 831)626-1864 Fax: (831)626-3564 canapo@earhlink.net - www.canapogalleries.com
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