From the creation of medium and large format mural textiles, which recall the trades of our original cultures through the manufacture of tapestries, DELIVERY; sample created by the artists Matias Noguera Y Fernanda Barroswho found inspiration in the possibility of translating the work of the street and the mural into a new technique and materials, where wool fabrics, as an example, help us understand that in this transfer from one format to another, materiality of the work originates a new language.
Going from large spaces to the intimacy of the home, from painting to fabric: DELIVERY is the title given to the exhibition, which will be open to the public from April 15 and which brings together the textile works that arose as a need to experiment with new techniques and materials linked to our territory and its creative processes.
“The new rhythm of time invited us to experiment with textiles and merge it with muralism, just as our ancestors did who inhabited the entire Andean Cordillera region thousands of years ago”Matias explains.
“The process led us to learn new forms of production related to this trade, such as dyeing, weaving and barreling”Fernando adds.
Adapting the workplace to this new creative possibility led them to carry out a new artistic space: Malfatti Textile Workshoplocated in the town of Cahuil. There they developed a series of investigations such as cultural identity, the artistic profession and the ways of linking space both in its formal language and in its support and technique; giving rise to a graphic story that interacts with different shapes, dimensions, and colors. The latter prepared especially for each work with dyes on natural wool.
For the process, they also had the collaboration of prominent artists: monkey gonzalez (Muralist, Santiago-Chile), Tasting Rabbit (Embroiderer, Pichilemu-Chile) and helloichau (Screen printers, Chilean-Argentine creative duo based in Berlin), who contributed their knowledge and ways of working. Likewise, designers and experts in textiles and dyeing participated in the technical and creative process, such as Gabriella Gonzalez (Chili), Catherine Spinoza (Chile) and Tasting Rabbit.
The exhibition DELIVERY can be visited for free from April 15 to May 15in the exhibition hall of Estudio Lira, located in the Center gamAv. Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 227.
The artists:
Fernanda Barros Harrison
Visual artist, with a master’s degree in design and animation. She dedicated to graphics, design, audiovisual and animation for more than 10 years, and recently to textile work, creating medium and large format works. She co-founded the Malfatti textile workshop located in Cahuil, sixth region, focused on the development of textile works with natural wool.
Matias Noguera
Chilean, 37 years old, Painter and Muralist self-taught, I currently live in Santiago de Chile. In recent times I have traveled to different countries in South America and Europe participating in Artistic Festivals and painting Murals in public spaces.
Lira Public Art Space:
Since 2014 we think about the city from art. Through a multidisciplinary team, we create, design and manage complex and high-impact projects. From Chile to the world, we have no limits for the development, articulation, curatorship, production and documentation of projects in the public space at a global level.
More than 40 interventions in Chile and abroadin addition to the development of nearly 20,000 m2 of artistic projects, are part of our vast experience leading our own works, as well as for public and private institutions, both inside and outside the country.
