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Hermann Schmidlin R. Neculman (1965) is an artist with Chilean-Swiss nationality and Mapuche* descent straight from his paternal grandmother. 

His work is a combination of his origins and the contemporary times in which he has lived. On the one hand, he belongs from a generation of artists deeply marked by the events of the 1970s and 1980s, a period of rapid growth of global capitalism, political upheaval, significant differences in wealth, global media, the heyday of the Cold War and also the end of it, as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall. His approach to "primitive art", as he says: "to the implantation of the inner image, the psychic impression" that is related to his experiences in Mapuche communities to which he has approached in search of their roots, incorporating beliefs and ways of understanding the world.

Hence, his work shows both influences from the artistic movements of the time such as Neo-expressionism, which manifested itself in Germany and the United States and the Italian trans-avant-garde, as well as from the Mapuche aesthetics and imaginary. His works, mostly graphic, use engraving and various printing techniques as a medium, as well as painting. They present not much color, are usually monochromatic and contain simple figures, signs without referents that could form the basis of the alphabet of a new language.

Schmidlin has developed his career internationally receiving various awards, including the Prize of the Fourth International Printing Triennial in Kochi, Japan (1999).

* Mapuche is the cultural name of the most notorious ancestral                      people southern Chile and Argentina.

 

      The MAVI Museum of Visual Arts opens its virtual doors to show works from the #MAVI 

      Collection with a selection made by researchers Carolina Castro and Carol Illanes. 


 

Wednesday, July 18, 2012




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NAMES AND SURNAMES:
Hermann Carlos Schmidlin Rodriguez

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH:
Valparaiso,Chile,1965

Nationality
Chilean-Swiss

email address
hschmidlin30@gmail.com

Individual and Collective Exhibitions


2022
Expo 2022 Dubai. Chile Pavilion.
2022
Individual Exhibition, Isabel Rozas Gallery. Valparaíso, Chile.
2021
Individual Exhibition, Project “Solo”. Paint Miami.
2020
Individual Exhibition, Gallery O. Santiago de Chile.
2019-2020
Individual Exhibition, “Urban Silence”. Valparaiso Cultural Park.
2012-2016
Creator and President of the Mascarones de Proa Cultural Center. Caleta Portales, Valparaiso, Chile.
2010
Living Art of Latin America, Málaga, Spain.
2008
Contemporary Photography, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, France.
2008
Invitation at The Third International Artist’s Book Biennale, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.
2008
Icon Data, Global Virtual Museum & World Idex of Contemporary Graphic Art.
2007
Invitation at Multiple Art Exhibition, Gyeong Nam International Art Festival, Gyeong Nam Museum, Korea.
2005
Carousel, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
2005
World Prints, International Prints Triennial Society, Krakow, Poland.
2005
V Biennale International de la Gravure D’Ile-de-France, Versailles, France.
2003
Aller-Retour, Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile.
2001
Group exhibition Gráfica de Chile, House of Culture of Dresden, Ministry of Sciences of Saxony, Dresden, Germany.
2001
Invitation at Global Mural meeting, Agenda 21, organized by Unesco in Hannover, Germany
1999
The 4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan.
1998
Valparaíso Regional Art Contest, Valparaíso, Chile.
1996
Osaka Triennale, 8th International Contemporary Art Competition, Osaka, Japan.
1996
Estampa, International Engraving Hall, Madrid, Spain.
1996
Exhibition, Silent Images, Engraving Gallery of Chile, Santiago, Chile
1994
International Art of Valparaíso, Chile.
1993
Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan.
 

STUDIES ABROAD

2004-2005 
EHESS, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences. Center for the History and Theory of the Arts.  Paris, France.
2003
Atelier Counterpoint (Haytel). Paris, France.

DEGREES AND ACADEMIC DEGREES

1990-1994
Bachelor of Art. Specialization in Engraving. Playa Ancha University of Educational Sciences. Valparaiso, Chile.
1986-1989
Art Instructor. Municipal School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile.
 

EMPLOYMENTS AND POSITIONS PERFORMED IN CHILE AND ABROAD

2020
Belongs to the “Latin America-Africa Foundation XXI century”, Chile and Morocco.
2017
Representative of the “Lucien Simon Association” of Paris, France, in Latin America.
2012-2022
Creator and President of the Mascarones de Proa Cultural Center.
2000
Embossing Demonstration. Faculty of Visual Arts. Banaras Hindu University. Varanasi, India.
1998
Professor of Engraving. Fondart project. Outstanding students of the High Schools of the Province of Valparaíso. Limache, Chile.
 

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
AND MUSEUMS

2007
MAVI. Museum of Visual Arts. Santiago de Chile. Work: “Valparaíso Silencio I”. Mixed technique. Oil on tarred canvas with application of fire. 280 x 170 cm.
1997
BNF. National Library of France, Paris. Prints and Photographs. Work: “Brother Nocturne I”. Linography, thermogravure on tar paper. 
100 x 100 cm.
1995
“Otero-Herrera” Foundation. Work: “Pac-Man-Mapu”. Woodcut, Thermogravure on tar paper. 
173 x 173 cm. 
1995
Chillan Graphic Museum, Chile. Work: “Silent Man”. Linography, thermogravure on tar paper. Colombia. 
100 x 100 cm.
1993
Kochi International Triennial of Prints. Kochi, Japan. Work: “Mask”. Woodcut on tar paper. 
50 x 50 cm.
 

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2019
Fondart, Ministry of Culture of Chile
2013
Fondart, Ministry of Culture of Chile
2003
Fondart, Ministry of Culture of Chile
1999
Fourth Prize in “The 4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints”. Kochi, Japan.
1998
Fondart, Ministry of Culture of Chile
1998
First Prize in the Valparaíso Regional Art Contest. Valparaiso, Chile.



EXTRAPOLATION OF MAPUCHE ICONOGRAPHY


It begins to take shape at the beginning of the 90s, through simple images, signs of abstract forms, where nature, silence and the primary gesture dominate.

Inspired and encouraged by the stories of my paternal grandmother Fresia Guacolda Neculman, who told us, as an educator, the experiences of her father, Manuel Antonio Neculman, President of the Caupolicán Defender of Araucanía Society (1910) and first Mapuche teacher.

Currently in the year 2020, "Extrapolation of Mapuche Iconography" is a project in development.





Steet art










Creation workshop in Chile, 2010





Creation workshop in Paris, 2013