Daniela Kovacic

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Daniela Kovacic

Sherry con Puas (Sherry with Spikes), 2013
oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm

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Daniela Kovacic

Procesion de Domingo (Sunday Procession, 2013
oil on canvas, 224 x 122 cm

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Daniela Kovacic

Virgen Con el Corazon Afuera (Virgin With the Heart Out), 2013
oil on canvas, 224 x 122 cm

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Daniela Kovacic

La fragilidad de lo real (The frailty of the Real), 2013
oil on canvas, 244 x 122 cm

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Daniela Kovacic

El Fruto (The Fruit), 2013
oil on canvas, 224 x 122 cm

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exhibitions

2013
MFA Thesis Show, New York, USA.

2012
Deck the walls, NYAA, New York, USA.

2011
Exhibición de Azerty, Paris, France.
Deck the walls, NYAA, New York, USA.

2010
Solo show "Versus" Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile
“Replica” Azerty, Paris, France.
“Presencias Femeninas” Galeria Trazos, Santiago, Chile.
“Nuevo Realismo” Galeria Trazos, Santiago, Chile

2009
“Feria Anual Sala Cero” Sala Cero, Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile.
“Lecciones de Ego II” Centro Cultural Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
Chaco, Art fair, Santiago, Chile
Realismo y no tanto, Salon Tudor, Santiago, Chile.
Exhibicion de colección, Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile.

2008
Inauguración Sala Cero, Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile.
Art BO, Art fair, Bogota, Colombia.
Trans, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile.

2007
Laberintos de amor y erotismo, Casona Nemesio Antunez, Santiago, Chile.
Marco Bonta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile
II concurso de arte joven, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile.
"Examen" Centro de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile.
I concurso de Arte Joven Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile.

2006
IV Salon del alumno UFT, Sala de exposiciones Monte Carmelo, Santiago, Chile

vita

Education

2002–2006
Bachelor Degree Visual Arts with a Major in Painting
(academic degree equivalent to 4 years of university education), Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile.

2009
Thesis in Painting.

2011-2013
Master in Fine Art at the New York Academy of Art.
New York,USA.

Born in 1983, Daniela Kovacic is a Chilean artist who has dedicated her career to oil painting. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting from the New York Academy of Art in New York and her Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree from the University Finis Terrae of Santiago, Chile. She has received awards including a Fulbright, a Chilean governmental scholarship, a 2012 Channel scholarship, the Robert Gamblin Painting Award, and a residency in France from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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The primary subject matter of my work is rooted in personal experiences, and developed through the exploration of the portrait in different ways throughout my career.

My latest series of work, Latino America Querida 2013, revolves around the idea of Latin America as a hybrid being, like Frankenstein’s creature. The series of work is based on Colonial Latin American imagery. I intend for the small polychromed wood sculptures embedded in Colonial Latin American culture, known as tallas, to be perceived as an allegory of the construction and development of Latin America. Not only religiously but also socio-politically and idiosyncratically.

This series represents an adaptation of these religious figures (the tallas) through a scale and medium shift. The small sculptures are painted as high as two meters in which I represent and forcefully amalgamate wooden pieces, human portraits, gold and metals, bird wings, crowns and veils, and more. It’s a unity of pieces that don’t belong to each other but somehow manage to create a creature mutilated by history.