IGNACIO VALDES (B. 1956, CHILE) - Lot 58

IGNACIO VALDES (B. 1956, CHILE) Untitled V, 2020 Black ceramic H: 17.5 x W: 6.5 x D: 15.5 cm Ignacio Valdés, an artist since 1979, graduated from the School of Art at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. He then moved to Italy, first to Pietrasanta, then to Rome, where he continued his studies on a scholarship from the Italian-Latin American Institute IILA. He then moved to Paris, where he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. A Fulbright scholar, he studied at the Pratt Institute in New York in 1988 and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1995 on a British Council scholarship. He has taught drawing and painting workshops at London's Royal Drawing School. Valdés has had solo exhibitions in national museums and public institutions, including the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile (MNBA), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile (MAC), the Italo-Latin American Institute in Rome (ILLA), the Pinacoteca del Piraeus in Athens, the National Library in Damascus, Syria, the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul, Turkey, and La Fontaine, Center for Contemporary Art in Manama, Bahrain. Ignacio Valdés represented Chile at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and took part in the Courtauld Institute's East Wing Biennial in 2017. In 2020, he exhibited at Gio Ponti's Villa L'Ange Volant in Paris, France. In 2024, he exhibited at the National Gallery of Fine Arts of Jordan in Amman.