AMA es una fundación sin fines de lucro dedicada al arte contemporáneo. Desde su inicio en 2008, nuestra misión ha sido apoyar la producción, difusión e investigación en torno a las artes visuales.

 

Santiago, Chile
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GT2P (Santiago, Chile) We are a studio involved in projects of architecture, art and design, established in Santiago, Chile. We are in a continuous process of research and experimentation in digital crafting, promoting new encounters between the technologies for projecting and the richness of the local expressed in traditional materials and techniques. Our work methodology has two dimensions. First, we seek to systematize knowledge and observation, whether of natural, artificial, geometric or spatial, phenomena, through generative algorithms. Here parametric design is a tool to guide the planning of projects that we carry out, enabling the integration of its stages of design, development and production. On the other hand, we have discovered an artistic dimension that connects us with our cultural heritage, through the incorporation of traditional experience and knowledge that feed and qualify the generative algorithms or DNA that we create. Exposing the unexpectedness of manual processes and local materials is a way to value what we are in what we do.

Enrique Ramírez (Santiago, Chile, 1979). Since 2010, he lives and works between Paris (France) and Santiago (Chile). He studied popular music and cinema in Chile before joining the master's degree in contemporary art and new media on Le Fresnoy - National Study of Contemporary Arts (Tourcoing, France). In 2014 he won the discovery prize for the Friends of the Palace of Tokyo (France). Since then, he has exhibited at the Tokyo Palace, Pompidou Center, Louis Vuitton Cultural Space Gold 104 (France), Grand Café (Saint-Nazaire), also in Central and South America: Museo Amparo (Mexico), Museo de la Memoria (Chile), MATTA Cultural Center, Embassy of Chile in Argentina. In 2017, he was invited to the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia curated by Christine Macel. http://www.projetocean.com/videos/es/5.mp4 http://www.projetocean.com

Carla Zaccagnini (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1973) Carla Zaccagnini was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires. In 1981 her family relocated to Brazil, where she continues to live and work. Zaccagnini received her BFA in 1995 from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo. While there, she studied with artist Nelson Leirner, who encouraged her exploration of theoretical questions through artistic practice. Zaccagnini also received an MA in Visual Poetics from the Universidade de São Paulo in 2004. Zaccagnini views her activities as an artist, curator, and critic as mutually constitutive forms of inquiry that overlap to form a conceptually driven holistic art practice. She works with a variety of media and techniques—from drawing, installation, performance, text, and video, to exhibition curating—in order to explore what she characterizes as a strategy of displacement. By recontextualizing existing objects, and ideas, Zaccagnini’s work prompts viewers to question the limitations of language and representation, the fallibility of perception, and the construction of knowledge. Bravo-Radio-Atlas-Virus-Opera 2010, video , 645'

Enrique Ramírez (Santiago, Chile, 1979) Since 2010, he lives and works between Paris (France) and Santiago (Chile). He studied popular music and cinema in Chile before joining the master’s degree in contemporary art and new media on Le Fresnoy – National Study of Contemporary Arts (Tourcoing, France). In 2014 he won the discovery prize for the Friends of the Palace of Tokyo (France). Since then, he has exhibited at the Tokyo Palace, Pompidou Center, Louis Vuitton Cultural Space Gold 104 (France), Grand Café (Saint-Nazaire), also in Central and South America: Museo Amparo (Mexico), Museo de la Memoria (Chile), MATTA Cultural Center, Embassy of Chile in Argentina. In 2017, he was invited to the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Christine Macel. https://vimeo.com/235776345

Josefina Guilisasti (Santiago, Chile, 1963) Between 1981 and 1985 she studied a Bachelor of Arts with a mention in Painting at the University of Chile. Later, between 1990 and 1992, she studied stage painting at the Scala di Milano in Italy. In 1997 she was a student in the studio of the artist Eugenio Dittborn and in 2012 of the Master in History of the Adolfo Ibáñez University. Her work has been exhibited in Santiago and other cities in the world such as London, New York, Austin, Porto Alegre, Pontevedra, Shanghai and Rome. In it she has developed, from a contemporary perspective, an exhaustive investigation on the genre of still life. Through the use of different media such as installations, photographs, video and mainly painting, the artist reflects on the anthropological, historical, cultural, aesthetic and socio-economic dimensions that are involved in the representation of different objects and artifacts such as jugs, pots, porcelain birds, Persian rugs and diaguita vessels, among others. Also to her artistic work, between 2005 and 2010 he was part of Incubo, an interdisciplinary project around the visual arts that organized curatorial residencies and cultural exchanges with other institutions in the country. Guilisasti resides and works in Santiago, Chile.

Cristóbal León (Santiago, Chile,1980) Joaquín Cociña (Santiago, Chile,1980) They are artists and filmmakers who live and work in Santiago, Chile. They have been working together since 2007. Independently of each other, they make drawings, animations, installations, as well as backgrounds and also write texts. His work often finds direct or indirect inspiration in children's literature, using and restoring its narratives and visual aesthetics. In 2018 they released their first fiction feature film, La Casa Lobo. Cristóbal León studied Design at the Universidad Católica de Chile, obtained a DAAD scholarship in 2007 and went to Berlin for a one-year program at the UdK in 2009. In 2011, León became a participating artist in 'The Ateliers' in Amsterdam. Joaquín Cociña obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Universidad Católica de Chile. He participated in several exhibitions in Chile and abroad, and also worked as a writer, illustrator, and backdrop designer for the theater. In many projects, León and Cociña work together with the filmmaker Nilles Atallah (California, 1978), sharing roles in the production and post-production of their film animations. All three act as directors, screenwriters, cartoonists, photographers, and editors. By combining drawing, sculpture and stop-motion techniques, they have created a corpus of art pieces that contribute their

Paz Errázuriz Körner (Santiago, Chile, 1944) In 1966 she studied Education at the Cambridge Institute of Education in England and in 1972 she graduated with a Bachelor of Basic Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In those years he began to  selfeducate in photography, specializing in children's images and working for publications on education. In 1980 she made his first individual exhibition at the Chilean-North American Institute of Culture. During that decade she became interested in journalistic photography, collaborating with different media and institutions such as Apsi magazine and the Vicaría de la Solidaridad. She was also one of the founders of the Asociación de Fotógrafos Independientes (AFI), a group that during the dictatorship sought to spread the work and defend the lives of those photographers who, without institutional support, portrayed urban life and denounced the repression of the military government. . Paz Errázuriz's photographs are usually organized in thematic series and with them she has shown, over the years, the realities of various marginal subjects, who have been left out of the normality imposed by modern society. Taking portrait, both individual and collective, as her favorite genre, the artist captures images that are realistic and at the same time are loaded

Miguel Ángel Cárdenas (Espinal, Colombia, 1934) Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas was born in Espinal, Colombia in 1934. Between 1953 and 1957 he studied architecture at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, Colombia, and visual art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Bogota. In 1961 the Ministry of Culture of Colombia awarded him a scholarship to study at the Barcelona School of Graphic Arts. In 1962 he moved to the Netherlands and has been living there ever since. Shortly after his arrival in the Netherlands, Cárdenas got a solo exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and participated in the great exhibition "Pop Art and New Realism" (1964 -1965; The Hague, Brussels, Vienna, Berlin) that also featured works by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg. Cárdenas was one of the ten artists invited by then Crown Princess, HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for a series of cultural soirees at the Drakesteijn Castle in 1969. His performance was called "Symphony for seven waiters", and it also included Prince Claus, Wim Beeren, Marinus Boezem, Ad Dekkers, Jan Dibbets and Peter Struycken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMINXuVYT8

Tunga(Palmares, Brasil, 1952)Tunga (born Jose de Barros Carvalho e Mello) worked in sculpture, installation, photography, poetry, and video. His site-specific installations transform galleries into dreamlike environments with an array of materials, including plastic, thread, and repurposed objects. Though materially intensive, Tunga’s practice was highly conceptual—his works are intentionally enigmatic, meant to resist certainty and confound viewers. For À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds) (2007), he hung from a gallery ceiling a massive assemblage of bones, iron, bundles of skulls, metal wire, and bronze replicas of classical sculpture sheathed in mesh, a commentary on the delicate balance between life and death Tunga, Xifópagas Capilares entre Nós (Capillary Xiphopagus among Us) 1984. 

Nicolás Franco (Santiago, Chile, 1973) Nicolás Franco was born in 1973 in Santiago, Chile, where he currently lives and works. He studied Visual Arts at the Universidad de Chile and Universidad Complutense de Madrid and was an artist in residence at Gasworks, London and De Ateliers, Amsterdam. His work encompasses painting, photography and sculpture, proposing a flow of enigmatic relationships between language, images, objects and materials. The leitmotifs of many works revolve around historical events and recollections related to the theme of human existence, the splendour and decadence of things and the crossroads between personal and collective memory. His work has been presented at Tate Modern (London), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich), MEIAC (Badajoz), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima), Museo Blanes (Montevideo), Museo del Barro (Asunción), MUUA (Antioquia), Sala Alcalá 31 (Madrid), Centro de Arte La Conservera (Murcia), Stroom Den Haag (La Haya), De Ateliers (Amsterdam), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago), Museo de Artes Visuales (Santiago), Museo de la Memoria y los derechos Humanos (Santiago) y Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago). He participated in the First Triennial of Chile and the 12 Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios (Chile).