Miguel Villanueva
Blood and Earth
8 - 26 February 2023
G1
Opening Night
Friday 10 February | 6pm – 8pm
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'Blood and Earth' emerges as an invitation by the visual artist Andrés Villanueva to a collective and collaborative project involving art and social sciences, through which he seeks to make visible the resistance inherent in different cultures worldwide. For this purpose, he presents us with this first advance of his work relying on the technique of MDF engraving, also known as woodcutting (from its traditional primary material, wood). Through it, he shows us images of women from different territories who can be seen wearing conventional and representative garments of their people and who have prevailed until our times.
The artist intends in this project the possibility of understanding that traditions are framed in colours and symbology and that the dress itself becomes a piece of art, expression, and valuable resistance, which is mainly perpetuated thanks to the organisation among women, which has been characterised throughout history by being in charge of the manufacture of textiles and using only raw materials from their localities sought to represent their realities, contexts, environments and through them to transmit them to future generations as if it were a woven history among women.
Text by Katherine Blanco (2022)
Miguel Villanueva (Andy), a Chilean visual artist based in Australia since 2018, has spent the last sixteen years developing printmaking techniques, mainly those made in wood and linoleum on paper and textiles. Since the beginning of his career, Miguel has participated in different creative projects, standing out for his critical thinking on political and social issues, and reflecting on topics such as poverty, folklore, and indigenous culture, among others.
The artist has published five books, all of them based on his outstanding engraving technique, through which he intends to maintain the current discipline as a visual record over the years. Andy has participated in different collective exhibitions in Chile, Perú and Australia. In recent years he has had three individual exhibits in Melbourne, Australia, the first in 2018 called "En Tránsito", the second called "Human Vices" in 2019, both at SOMA GALLERY on Sydney Rd, Brunswick and the third called “The Blood is Money” 2022 at BlakDot Gallery.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
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Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
