Maria Eugenia Akel

Maria Eugenia Akel

Profession: Architect, Universidad de Chile.
Other Studies: Art Workshops at the Universidad finis Terrae, Universidad Catolica, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez.
Painting Workshops at the Academia Pentiment Hamburgo, Malaga, workshop from the National Art Award Eugenio Dittborn and print workshops.

Main International and National Exhibition
International: Gallery Bremen, Museo Fernando Duran, Madrid, Fundación Guayasamín, Museo de Cuenca, Ecuador, Arte Clásica y ExpoTrastiendas,Buenos Aires, Jadite gallery, New York.
National: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bibioteca nacional, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Ferias Internacionales de Arte, Galleries and Cultural Centers in Santiago and other cities in Chile.

Work Basis
The technique used in my current work is Pictography, a synthesis of techniques that I had been experiencing through out my professional career. In is mixed painting, photography, and print techniques, reaching light overlays, scale and theme contrasts, related in a harmonic whole.

Artist María Eugenia Akel obtained her degree of Architect from the University of Chile some time ago, and has participated in the design of apartment buildings in Santiago, Concepción, and Viña del Mar. In addition, she has taken art classes in different workshops and art schools such as the Pentiment School of Experimental Art in Hamburg, Germany, a workshop of Michael Styl in Málaga, Spain, and several art seminars at the Catholic University of Chile, and University Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile.Also she has attended the two year workshop of  Artwork Critic given by Eugenio Dittborn, The world known Chilean artist.

Most significant collective  Exhibitions : In Santiago :Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Biblioteca Nacional, Instituto Chileno francés, Liga Chileno-Alemana, Casa Museo de Pablo Neruda,Ferias internacionales de Arte, 2008 y 2009, Sala 21, Taller Dittborn. En Viña del Mar y Valparaíso,: Concursos de Pintura Salón Viña del Mar,Hotel Sheraton –Miramar, Goethe Institut, , etc.

In Bremen, Germany, In Fundación Guayasamín in Quito and Modern Art Museum in Cuenca, Ecuador,
Casa Museo Fernando Durán, Madrid,Spain,In Two Art Fairs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Jadite Gallery, New York, In art Fair Bruxelles, Belgium.
In December, Florence Biennale.

Most significant solo Exhibitions, : Casa Mirador de Lukas, Valparaíso, Goethe Institut, World Trade Center Gallery in Santiago, Art gallery of the Universidad Mayor,Santiago, Art gallery Casa de las Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and many others.

Most important virtual art galleries:
Absolutearts.com
Artoteque.com
Artnowonline.com
Arteallimite.com
Chilearte.com
Arslatino.com

The work of painter Maria Eugenia Akel leads the observer into mysterious and suggestive locations that gradually reveal their secrets, a process that opens the way to myriad interpretations.

A fusion occurs in her paintings between the figurative and the abstract; between the faithful representation of an observed physical reality and an imagined visualization; that is, the fusion of two distinct approaches to the challenges posed by the art of painting.

Two major elements constitute the basis of her present-day work: printing and the application of various pictorial techniques.  Impressions on canvas are made by reworking and digitally fusing previous works by the artist herself; the new picture that results of this process, is then ready to be painted.

This procedure allows for several techniques to melt and mix together, such as collage of newspapers and silks that flow and meet linear drawings, seascapes, human shapes, fishermen …

We are facing some examples of the original and distinctive work of this Chilean artist.