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Javiera da Fonseca

b. Santiago de Chile, Chile , 1982. lives and works in Tulúm, Mexico.

Javiera da Fonseca creates works comprising of drawings and paintings, influenced by Mexican modernist architecture and the exotic Mexican landscapes. She began her art education at the Universidad de Chile (2000-2005) where she graduated in Visual Arts with a focus in painting. Javiera da Fonseca further her studies of art appreciation under Eugenio Dittborn (2008-2009). Her work has been exhibited in galleries  in her native Chile, México and the United States. Javiera currently lives and works in Tulúm, Mexico.

Javiera da Fonseca | Selva I | 2020 | Acrylic on canvas | 75x75 cm
Javiera da Fonseca | Tulum Vibes I | Acrylic on canvas | 72x109 cm | 28x43 in. | 2020
Javiera da Fonseca | Tormenta | 18 x 21.5 in. (16 x 19.5 in. image) | print | Ed. 1/75 | SOLD
Javiera da Fonseca | Selva II | 2020 | Acrylic on canvas | 75x75 cm
Javiera da Fonseca | Valladolid | Acrylic on canvas | 38x35 cm | 15x14 in. | 2019
Javiera da Fonseca | Wailua Falls | Acrylic on canvas | 37 x 39.5 inches
Javiera da Fonseca | Pont d´Ain | Acrylic on canvas | 41.5 x 39 inches
Javiera da Fonseca | After Party | 2018 | Acrylic on canvas | 70x61 cm
Javiera da Fonseca | Rave Cave | 2018 | Acrylic on canvas | 70x61 cm
Javiera da Fonseca | Ahau tower | Acrylic on canvas | 25 x 44 inches
Javiera da Fonseca | Tormenta | 16.5 x 21.5 in. (14.5 x 19.5 in. image) | print | Ed. 1/75 | SOLD
Javiera da Fonseca | Nicte-Ha, Dos Ojos | Acrylic on Canvas | 19 x 25 inches | SOLD
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JAVIERA DA FONSECA

shares her take on the COVID-19 situation from her studio in Ciudad de México.

March 22, 2020

PAST EXHIBITIONS at Mónica Reyes Gallery (formerly Back Gallery Project)
Javiera da Fonseca | "AURA" (A Mexican Experience) (2017)

“An aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object like the halo or aureola. It is said that all objects and all living things manifest such an aura.”

We live as if the world is some inert object from which we can subtract the resources we need for our commodities and needs, we are influenced by a society that thinks that productivity, profit and growth are the most important values to have a meaningful life, and from an all persuasive media that wants to sell us the idea that happiness and beauty are supposed to look and taste in certain way. All this ideas, images and values mediate in an implicit manner the way we relate our environment, making our actual relationship with the world one in which nature and all around us seems like simple stuff, a product for us to use.
In Javiera´s work the given suppositions that the world is devoid of meaning is  challenged for a reality in which everything becomes alive and full of mystery. Her paintings give us the sense that there are places, things and beings that just reflect some inner states of who we are, that can captivate, enchant and fascinate us. That we are a dialogue, a story and when we find the scene for the plot, for the revelation of who we are, then we know that we have found something worth keeping, worth drawing, worth sharing. Something honest and true.

“Aura” reveals a connection with the intimate. Encounters with light and the uniqueness of each moment. Maybe that is why nature and architecture  have become the artist biggest allies. She connects us to that primal sense, when the simple act of seeing or breathing near a palm tree were meaningful acts of reverence.

The Latin America landscapes presents themselves full of color in front of the espectador, talking about the moods of the artist in a period of her life living in Mexico, revealing auras or chroma vibrations. The discovery of new dimensions, new paths, or universe portals are constantly emerging and presenting themselves in this paintings as if something mysterious and profound was at times trying to be born.    
Javiera paints not only places but moments. And when she is in the mist of it and the living creature be it a leaf, a sunset or a house comes to her attention, she feels a call to translate those particulars events were the whole world becomes an engagement of solitude and rapture, a reverence to stillness and an acknowledgment of the purity and truth in everything. 

 - Stephanie Esses, Master in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness, CIIS.

Palms, 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 39 x 39 inches (SOLD)
Plaza de Mexico, 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 57 x 35 inches (SOLD)
Refugio, MX, 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 57 x 35 inches
Venice Beach, acrylic on canvas 18 1/2 x 26 inches (SOLD)
Mazunte, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 27 1/2 x 20 inches (SOLD)
Tepoztlan, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 27 1/2 x 20 inches (SOLD)
Zipolite, 2017 27 1/2 x 20 inches Acrylic on Canvas (SOLD)
Jardin II 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 27 1/2 x 20 inches
Artigas, 2017 acrylic on canvas 47x39 inches (SOLD)
Mazunte II, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 18 1/2 x 26 inches (SOLD)
Jardin, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 47 x 39 inches (SOLD)
Tepoztlan II, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 18 1/2 x 26 inches (SOLD)
Morning Plant, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 19 x 25 inches
Nature II, 2017 Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 42 inches (SOLD)

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"Javiera da Fonseca". The Jealous Curator, March 2017
www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2017/03/07/javiera-da-fonseca/
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