Juan Pablo Langlois
Juan Pablo Langlois | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 February 1936 Santiago, Chile |
| Died | 26 November 2019 (aged 83) Santiago, Chile |
| Alma mater | |
| Profession | Architect |
Juan Pablo Langlois Vicuña (26 September 1936−26 November 2019) was a Chilean architect dedicated to the sculpture and the installations art.
Career[edit]
He studied architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso from 1952 to 1962. He was influenced by Josef Albers, one of the main exponents of Bauhaus, who taught a course in Chile for a semester. His first artistic stage was closely linked to architecture, conducting two-dimensional research around Op-art.
Later, he concentrated his artistic work on the practice of installation, leaving aside the traditional elements of art. In 1969, he made the first installation of Chilean art, entitled Soft Bodies (Spanish language word from Soft Bodies) at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) —then directed by Nemesio Antúnez— in Santiago, which consisted of «paper-filled garbage bags that, joined together, formed a 300-meter sleeve that ran through various parts of the building». He also made interventions and exhibitions such as El colchón amatorio and El Carné sentimental y el Pan.
She obtained a bachelor's degree in art from ARCIS University in 1992. In 1997, he presented her exhibition Miss at the MNBA, “«where the comic was inserted into the serious, the grotesque into the tragic, the pure into the impure, and the ugly into the beautiful», a recurring gesture in all of Langlois Vicuña's works. In 2012, a retrospective of his work was held at Matucana 100 and in 2018 his work was exhibited in the Afterwards no one will remember exhibition held at the Cindy Rucker Gallery in New York.[1]
He died in 2019 from a cancer.[2][3][4][5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ ""Afterwards no one will remember": Primera exposición de Juan Pablo Langlois en EE.UU". Crítica. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Fallece a los 83 años el destacado artista visual Juan Pablo Langlois". Radio Bío-Bío. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Fallece destacado artista visual y escultor nacional Juan Pablo Langlois Vicuña". 26 November 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Fallece Juan Pablo Langlois, pionero de la instalación en Chile". La Tercera. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Fallece el artista Juan Pablo Langlois (1936-2019)". Government of Chile. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Fallece destacado artista visual y escultor nacional Juan Pablo Langlois". Museum of Memory and Human Rights. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021.