Two Chilean painters will participate in the Nord Art exhibition in Germany, an annual art exhibition held since 1998 between the months of June and October in Büdelsdorf, in the northern part of Germany, near the border with Denmark.
The exhibition has the recognition and support of the cities of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg and the industrial group ACO, which preserves the Kunst in der Carlshütte GmbH, a former foundry factory opened in 1827 and which today has an area larger than the 82,000 m², intended for the exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos by various artists who have gone through a prior selection process.
This 2024, NordArt, considered one of the largest exhibitions in northern Europe, celebrates its 25-year anniversary with the presence of 200 artists from different countries around the world and two Chileans who will represent the country with their large-format paintings: Guadalupe Valdes and Rafael Ruz.
Guadalupe Valdés presents “Metamorfos” and “Cavity”, two primeval and immersive landscapes that reflect the genealogical and geological memories of our South American continent. Rocks that speak of a life more than 200 million years old, originated by underwater eruptions and that we have only been able to see since the Andes Mountains began to rise. They reveal an ancestral life that urgently needs to be loved and protected and show an existence much more extensive than our own body.
These works are part of a process for the exhibition that will be held in Austria 2025 inspired by the Andes and the Alps. A search that attempts to unite art and science through the study and evolution of mountain ranges, their ancestral, cultural and spiritual value translated into the language of painting. The artist, with an increasing presence in Germany, will later participate in the art fair called BAAM, Berlin, which will have its seventh version between June 7 and 9 in the German capital.
Rafael Ruz, meanwhile, presents elements of his environment such as abandoned old cars that he reinterprets in improbable contexts, full of melancholy and that reveal the passage of time, activating our memory and perception of reality. Ruz also participates simultaneously with an individual exhibition at the Chilean embassy in Berlin titled “Hybrid Landscape, Recent Archeology” until the end of August 2024.