Ximena Armas (born 29 July 1946 in
Santiago
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, Chile) is a Chilean painter.
Biography
Ximena Armas Fernández first attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes at the
Universidad de Chile
The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843. , then the Escuela de Artes at the
Universidad Católica de Chile
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in Santiago, where she was trained by
Mario Carreño, Eduardo Vilches, and
Mario Toral
Mario Toral Muñoz (born in Santiago, Chile, on 12 February 1934) is a Chilean painter and photographer.
Career
At the age of 16, Toral moved to Buenos Aires, where he saved money to enroll in the Escuela de Bellas Artes (School of Fine Arts) i ...
. Upon her arrival in France in 1971, she attended the
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
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Profi ...
and the
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
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in Paris. She lives in Paris, and is married to the French painter
Henri Richelet.
[Lebeau 2016. ''op. cit.'', vol. 2, .]
Since 1969, she has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Chile, France, Spain, and Mexico.
Ximena Armas's works hide secrets. Nothing is revealed; all is instead veiled with ribbons and bands, hemmed with curtains, burrowed beneath a mass of stones. She fringes all her paintings with mystery, dresses them with shades. One is struck at once by their odd composition, made of striped bands, ruffled feathers, or beach huts. Her figures hide or suddenly appear as shadows or silhouettes. The artist plays at staging over and over again the familiar elements of her dreamlike world, thus totally mastering space and swamping it with symbols.
Solo exhibitions
* 1969 : Galería ''Arturo Edwards'', Santiago, Chile.
* 1970 : Galería ''C.C. Providencia'', Santiago, Chile.
* 1980 : Galerie ''La Bolée'', Anonnay, France.
* 1982 : ''Latino-Américains à Paris'',
Grand Palais, Paris.
* 1986 : Galerie Lefor Openo, Saint-Cloud, France.
* 1987 :
** Espace latino-américain, Paris.
** Galerie de la Main de fer, Perpignan, France.
* 1990 :
** Galería La Fachada, Santiago, Chile.
** Galerie Ceibo, Paris.
* 1996 : Hôtel de Ville,
Neufchâteau, France.
* 1999 : Galería Arte Actual, Santiago, Chile.
* 2001 :
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
* 2003 : Musée Roybet-Fould, Courbevoie, France.
* 2006 :
** Galería Modigliani, Viña del Mar, Chile.
** Galería Praxis, Santiago, Chile.
* 2007–2008 : Le Trait d’Union,
Neufchâteau, France.
Main group exhibitions
* 1969 : ''Prix Crav de Peinture'', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
* 1972 : ''La Peinture chilienne'',
UNESCO
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, Paris.
* 1974 : ''Grafic 74'', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Ibiza, Espagne.
* 1981 :
** ''Art pour le Nicaragua'',
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.
** ''Cent gravures contemporaines''
* 1982 : ''Chili Vivant'', Mexico.
* 1983 : ''Chili-femmes'', Espace latino-américain, Paris.
* 1984 : ''Peintres latino-américains'', Monaco.
* 1986 : ''Les Figurations de 1960 à nos jours'', Musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, E.B.A. de Besançon, Musée de Carcassonne, Couvent des Cordeliers de Châteauroux, France.
* 1989 : Musée de l'Amérique latine, Monaco
* 1990 : ''Art chilien d’aujourd’hui'', Espace Belleville and
UNESCO
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, Paris.
* 1991 : ''Festival international de la peinture'', Château-musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
* 1995 :
** ''Femmes ibéro-américaines'', Junta de Extramadura, Caceres, Espagne.
** ''Présence du Chili en France'', Galería Plastica Nueva, Santiago, Chile.
* 1996 : ''Artistes Chiliens en France'', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
* 1997 :
** ''Festival des arts 1997 – Dialogue Est-Ouest'', Vayolles, Vienne, France.
** ''Persistance du paysage dans la peinture chilienne'', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
* 2003 : ''Hommage à S. Allende'', Centre culturel Robert-Desnos, Ris-Orangis, France.
* 2004 : ''Georges Sand, interprétations'', Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France.
* 2007 : ''Santiago Paris Santiago'', Galería La Ventana Cemicual, Santiago, Chile.
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References
External links
Artistas Plásticos Chilenos@Ximena Armas
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Site officiel de Ximena Armas*
Sitio official de Ximena Armas*
Recent paintings
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1946 births
Living people
20th-century Chilean painters
21st-century Chilean painters
20th-century Chilean women artists
21st-century Chilean women artists
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Artists from Santiago
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni
Chilean women painters