2009-2010 Kungl. Kosthögskolan Stockholm
2002-2005 B.A Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
1999-2000 Formgivning Universidad de Chile
Utställning i Atriumrummet på VIDA
4 juli - 8 augusti, 2010 PORTABLE MYTHOLOGIES
“As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clock said” (1)
The exhibition of Carla Garlaschi’s oil paintings in her latest project
PORTABLE MYTHOLOGIES for VIDA MUSEUM Atriumrummet
has been part of a process along 2009 and 2010, having as a starting point
the production of characters/deities assigned to fulfil demands related to contemporary elements and situations.
When talking about production process, these characters/deities have been
projected by writing a mythology around them as drawing descriptions of their functional connection.
In the same way, the objects that surround these always-centred-figures, as their corporeity, are the outcome of
an image research for modelling this pictorial proposal from optical elements, thinking in that hypnotical view from
the observer, which countless times achieved by Byzantine religious icons.
When talking about the research of images, is in this precise point were
PORTABLE MYTHOLOGIES takes that inevitable step into the mass media images
since down loading photos from internet and manipulating them after that.
In another hand, Art History and Contemporary Art references were included and, why not, some Super Flat (2).
Later on, the third part of the images were found in the street and in a refrigerator for subsequently all of them
been organized on a bidimensional surface, in the bittersweet of the old sweat’s old fashion nostalgia
of the oil painting which at the other side turned the tragicomic, that knot of a flesh-and-candy-balloon inflated
with hysteria and phrases from Soap Operas.
At the same time, the technique as the ways of representing, shows to the viewer a wide spectra of the painting
rhetoric surplus that in times recall a carnal acidity in this pictorial materia-the oil-that is the medium of
PORTABLE MYTHOLOGIES characters/deities.
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1 ”Slaughterhouse Five”(1969) Kurt Vonnegut
2 ”A Theory of Super Flat Japanese Art”(2001) Takashi Murakami
Carla Garlaschi is an Italian Chilean artist awarded in 2006
with the first price in Experimental Painting by the City of Valdivia, Chile.
Moving to Spain after the price, she works in her studio in Ca’n Bordoy,
Palma de Mallorca during 2007-2008.
In 2008 she moves into Sweden and lately continue her formation in
the Master Programme of Kungliga Konsthögskolan.
Since spending her childhood and teens in Chile while been educated in
the Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica de Chile Fine Art Bachelor Programme,
we can find Garlaschi now adays continually showing her work in both Europe and Latin America.
Guden av de döda timmarna 2009
Den enda importerade honungen 2010