Artists From Chile — Marie Rosmanich

Born in Osorno, Chile, 1990. Marie lived her childhood immersed in the countryside and surrounded by the imposing volcanoes of southern Chile. Her family descends from 19th century European immigrants whose history involved a very demanding lifestyle in remote places with lush vegetation and challenges for survival. The registers of these times through photographs of past centuries generated in Marie a fascination; the atmosphere that was presented in those scenes, particularly the ones exhibited in photographic albums of her own family, led her to seek a connection with her origins and ancestors, and to transfer that quest and imagery onto her artwork.

In 2008, she moved to her country's capital to study Art at Finis Terrae University. There she dove into other collections of old photographs and experimented with photographic transfers, engraving and oil painting. Due to this exploration, her work took the form of a pictorial translation of scenes that show a peculiar sensibilità and that generated intuitive attraction. The scenes presented in her images open a space that somehow generates meaning in the viewer, sometimes through the artist's personal family history images, and other times aiming towards a collective memory of past times. In recent years, she has exhibited her work at various local art fairs and galleries. Her most recent show took place at Galería La Sala, in March 2020, at an individual exhibition that received very good reviews on a national level, especially highlighting a positive chronicle by Waldemar Sommer, a prestigious journalist for Chile’s newspaper “El Mercurio”. Her work canvases various techniques and different types of support, from traditional oil painting on canvas, to transmutations on ceramic pieces and, more recently, oil paintings on tile. She currently teaches art at several schools in Santiago as a daytime job. Her expectations for the future are to continue to develop her work’s voice, allowing the imagery of past times to generate in her a need to explore through painting, which may involve new techniques and supports that allow her to reinvent her work.

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