Natalia Villanueva Linares
Colorial Sisters
old metal recipe boxes with thread spools
Size: 8”x6”x20”
2014
Value $1500
Starting: 500
Buy it now: $1200
Bio:
Natalia Villanueva Linares is a French Peruvian maker, graduated with highest honors from Beaux Arts, the National School of Fine Arts of Paris. She currently lives in Chicago and works between North + South America and Europe.
Natalia speaks in amounts and believes in poetry made from excessive quantities, in simple objects radiating with power over her everything. There is in the work a notion of continuity which communicates between the immense and the minute. She transmutes found, worn, old objects or those found in the banal of everyday life. The concept of sensitive mathematics animates a large part of her work, either through the abundance of large quantities of gestures and objects, or in its relationship to space and temporality. She has a magnetic affection for large collections of objects charged with history. With an animistic relation to certain materials, she invites others to feel the magnitude of their generosity.
Her work has been shown in two major exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Paris. She exhibited at the Sala Miro Quesada Garland in Peru (2013), Collège de Bernardins in Paris and La Graineterie (2018). Natalia had her first solo shows with Doyang Lee Gallery (2014, France) DPM gallery (2019, Ecuador), Wu Gallery (2021, Peru), Comfort Station in Chicago (2022). Her solo show at the Museo de Arte de San Marcos (2022, Peru) won the Luces Award for best solo exhibition of the year. In 2023 she exhibited at DePaul Art Museum, Hyde Park Art Center, the Franklin (Chicago IL), El Lobi (Puerto Rico) and the School of the Art Gallery (Canada).
Natalia is a cultural worker, she co-founded the non-profit organization Yaku in Peoria IL. She is the former Director of the Artist-run mini mansion High Place and founder of the magazine Ukayzine, created to promote international cultural exchanges through the visual Arts. Natalia is a contributor for Sixty Inches From Center, she created the series Desde los Archivos/from the Archives and was an organizer of the critic program Canje.