José Yisa Careolis

Statement

Jose’s work articulates the power relationships experienced by the contemporaneous subject. They are exposed explicitly, in an irreverent way, providing a confusing message to the receptor.

His work maintains an interest in large formats and the use of materials affected by erosion, due to their exposition to the environment, as seen in his earlier work (specifically in site-specific paints). Recently, influenced by different artistic trends, he made a change in his works, pointing at a more specific painting, joining other elements, such as oil, wood, and stones. This change reflects his interest in conceptualizing and contextualizing new themes in his work: power, religion, violence, and sex, as the objectification of power in the body or the objectification of the body through power.

GlogauAIR Project

The city, through its residuality as a footprint and context of a post-industrial identity, is the object of my study. I consider the idea of identity as a constant construction and deconstruction that is mobile and could be manipulated.

The system of power in all its variants is a component of an overwhelming reality considered both politically and in a plastic and visual form.

This residuality is ultimately presented as a symbolic archeology of a system.

Through a conceptual investigative process of production, I seek to give form and weight to the underlying invisible processes of this structure.

When entire aspects of our existence fall into abstraction, as a consequence of a world-scale change, it is through the process of production that a connection is formed between signs and images.

This process is developed through three phases:

“IDEOLOGICAL MONUMENTALIZATION”: a research focusing on the monumentalization of the city generated during the occupation of the allies

This final investigation finds a way through the meaning of the production process, generated by this aesthetic-ideological sequence in relation to the subject before proposed.

These aesthetic-ideological relations are defined by means of pieces (i.e., defined by the meaning of the investigation) and, while working as an initial act of an idea in construction, they propose more questions than answers.

CV Summary

b. 1984, Chile

Education

• Currently studying Master in Urban Design, Public Art, City and Society. / University of Barcelona, Spain.
• Bachelor of visual arts, Finis Térrae University, Santiago, Chile, 2005.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2017 “COSTA”, Espai M-La Escocesa, Barcelona, Chile
• 2016 “MALINCHE” ,Sagrada Mercancia Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2016 “127YEN”, Ross Cultural Center, Pichilemu, Chile
• 2015 “Operación Siglo XX” ,MUTT Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2013 “GUILIGAN”, Tajamar Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2012 “LA FATIGA DE SAN JORGE” Corretger5 Gallery, Barcelona, España.
• 2009 “CRISIS”, Balmaceda / Young Art Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile.
• 2008 “WELCOM WAMACHUCO” National Museum Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Santiago, Chile.
• 2007 “Latex & Zapatera”, Trafix Gallery, Santiago, Chile.

Collective Exhibitions

• 2017 “Festival LINDARS”,La Escocesa, Barcelona, España.
• 2017 “Accion de Descarga”, Espai M- La Escocesa, Barcelona, España.
• 2017 “Colección MAC, pOST 90”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile.
• 2016 “Muestra Tripartita” Open Darck Gallery, Santiago Chile.
• 2015 “Biennial of medial arts BVAM “Santiago, Chile.
• 2015 “MERMA”, Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile.
• 2014 “MISTER MASTER MONSTER”, Factoria Santa Rosa Gallery, Santiago Chile.
• 2014 “SUB 30”, Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile.
• 2013 Paso de Cebra, Art Hall Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
• 2012 La Familia Manson, Espacio Opening Independent Gallery, Off Chaco, Santiago, Chile.
• 2011 “PQN+”, Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile.
• 2010 “Bello amorfo”, YONO Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2010 “Virus Debilitado”, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, Polonia.
• 2009 “Bajo tierra”, Matucana 1oo / Cultural Center, Santiago Chile.
• 2009 “The Leñadores Proyect”, ANIMAL Gallery, Santiago Chile.
• 2009 “Titulados UFT” Die Ecke Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2009 “Road Trip 1” Salón Tudor Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2008 “Revell Toi”, International festival of contemporary art B.A.C//CCCB, Barcelona, España
• 2008 “Be long here”, Cultural Center of España, Santiago, Chile.
• 2007 “NO POP”, Moro Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2007 “INOXIDABLE NEOPOP”, Santa Fe Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2006 “INOXIDABLE NEOPOP”, Braga Menéndez Gallery, Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Grants and Prizes

• 2016 Grant granted by the National Fund for Culture and Arts of Chile (FONDART), in the area of Scholarships and Internships for the realization of Postgraduate courses at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
• 2009 Third prize Chandon, young district, ARTEBA ART FAIR /2009

Publications

• 2015 “Chile Arte Joven” /“Young Chilean Artist”, AAL Editions, Santiago, Chile.
• 2014 “SUB 30” Ocholibros, Santiago Chile.
• 2011 “Arte Callejero en Chile”/”Street art in Chile”, Ocho libros Editions , Santiago, Chile.
• 2011 “Nuevo Mundo, Latin Amercican Street Art”, Gestalten Exploring Visual Culture Editions, Berlin, Germany.
• 2010 “Revisión Técnica”/ Chilean Contemporary Painting 1980-2010, Ocholibros Editions, Santiago, Chile.
• 2008 “Ojo Latino”, Skira Editions, Milan, Italy.
• 2008 “La tarde que compre la vida sexual de Catherine, M, veintidós átomos pornográficos ilustrados”, Tintas Alternativas Editions , Barcelona, España.
• 2008 “Street Art Chile”, Eight Books Editions, London, UK.
• 2007 “Neopop, Visual trends in Latin America”, Midia comunicaciones, Santiago.
• 2005 “El libro del graffiti”/” The Graffiti Book”, Par de Peces Editions, Santiago, Chile.

Work Experience

• 2014 Associate professor, “Optional creative painting course, From Picasso to Warholl”, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Desarrollo University, Santiago, Chile.
• 2013 Associate professor, painting workshop II, Faculty of Architecture and Art , Desarrollo University, Santiago, Chile.
• 2013 Associate professor, painting workshop I, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Desarrollo University, Santiago, Chile.
• 2012 Associate professor, painting workshop I, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Desarrollo University, Santiago, Chile.
• 2012 Associate professor, painting workshop II Faculty of Architecture and Art, Desarrollo University, Santiago, Chile.
• 2011 Lecturer at Finis Terrae University in seminar “Muralism and public intervention today”
• 2011 Professor in Summer artistic courses on Balmaceda 1215 Cultural Center, Urban Art Course, Santiago, Chile.
• 2010 Work shop “Urban plastic trends, development and origin”, Desarrollo University, Santiago, Chile.

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