Constanza Urrutia Wegmann
Chile • 1980
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Constanza is a textile designer born in 1979 in Santiago de Chile.
She graduated in Visual Arts at the University of Chile, and has been a teacher at the Atelier Central d'Art Textile since 2007 and a university professor since 2019. Ella has exhibited in international and national exhibitions such as London Craft Week, the Biennale Revelations at the Grand Palais, the 15th Tapestry Triennial at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, Poland, and the 9th International Shibori Symposium at the National Silk Museum of China in Hangzhou, China.
Through the textile presentations, the artist evokes her heritage, as well as events in her country's history that have marked its political and social development. The gesture of weaving refers to the intention of revisiting the different wefts that construct the relationship between memory and textile, while drawing inspiration from the ancient techniques of the pre-Columbian Andes.
Proyecto Charazani- ritmos de color los rojos
Constanza Urrutia Wegmann
Sculpture - 12.6 x 8.7 x 4.3 inch
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Who is the artist?
Constanza is a textile designer born in 1979 in Santiago de Chile.
She graduated in Visual Arts at the University of Chile, and has been a teacher at the Atelier Central d'Art Textile since 2007 and a university professor since 2019. Ella has exhibited in international and national exhibitions such as London Craft Week, the Biennale Revelations at the Grand Palais, the 15th Tapestry Triennial at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, Poland, and the 9th International Shibori Symposium at the National Silk Museum of China in Hangzhou, China.
Through the textile presentations, the artist evokes her heritage, as well as events in her country's history that have marked its political and social development. The gesture of weaving refers to the intention of revisiting the different wefts that construct the relationship between memory and textile, while drawing inspiration from the ancient techniques of the pre-Columbian Andes.
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The artistic movements of the artists are: Textile artists
When was Constanza Urrutia Wegmann born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1980