Carmen Aldunate

You are looking at the works La castidad (“Chastity), La paciencia (“Patience) and La envidia (“Envy), belonging to the series of lithographs Pecados y virtudes (“Sins and Virtues), by the Chilean artist Carmen Aldunate.

Carmen Zita Aldunate Salas was born in Viña del Mar in Chile’s Valparaíso region in 1940. Better known as Carmen Aldunate, she is one of the main names in the Argentine artistic scene due to her role within the Argentine New Figuration, in spite of her Chilean origins.

Aldunate works mainly with oil on canvas and on wooden boards, but her pencil drawings, engravings and collages also stand out.

Clearly influenced by 15th-century Flemish painting, Aldunate combines great technical skill with a narrative rich in psychological and symbolic content. The human figure, in particular that of females, is the protagonist.

Aldunate’s work, seemingly amiable but with critical content, uses sarcasm and humour to denounce the centuries-old oppression of the female sex that still continues today. She therefore depicts female figures with idealised faces and forms under elegant and flowing clothing, in reference to the demanding and irrational canons of beauty to which women have been subjected throughout history.

The seriesPedados y Virtudes” offers a laser-sharp reflection on the power of religion and the dominance of society, as well as the role of women within it.

 

 

 

Silvia Sánchez Ruiz
Curator

 

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