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Collages by Claudia Donoso at Casa E, Valparaiso
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Collages by Claudia Donoso at Casa E, Valparaiso

Come May 12, the grand opening of an exhibit will serve to bear out just another creative trend of Chilean writer and journalist Claudia Donoso. Jolie Madame is made up of collages brimming with visible autobiographic reminiscences, configured from baroque esthetics. The images clipped off from old publications open up a feminine world full of sober eroticism and black humor that lampoons with the glamour from the 1970s.

 

Claudia Donoso (1955) worked since the 1980s in different Chilean media, including the HOY, Apsi, Caras and Paula magazines, in which she stood out with amazing interviews of writers and visual artists. But her start is linked to photography: as a graphic reporter trained by the great Eliodoro Torrente, winner of the 1957 National Journalism Prize.

 

In 2007, Claudia Donoso decided to stop writing, alleging that journalism tempo had always been at odds with her human nature, a reason why she made up her mind to start working on image composition. The clippings she makes use of reveal recurrent iconographies: mink coats, jewelry, fragments of universal art, antiques and interior decorations that go warping in sober colors, in dislocated places and plentiful textures.

 

The exhibit will remain open from Saturday May 12 thru Sunday July 1 at Casa E, a Victorian-style building that was refurbished and transformed into a cultural project.

 

At the helm of Emilio Lamarca, former director of Culture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Casa E opened in January 2011. Devoted to the making, exhibition and spread of visual arts and literature –through its exposition hall, related activities and its bookstore, run in association with Metales Pesados- Casa E also seeks to put these disciplines on the national, regional and world maps.

 

Casa E

Calle Lautaro Rosas N° 344, Cerro Alegre, Valparaiso, Chile

 

Source: Press release