A Famous Chilean

When people ask me about a famous Chilean that I admire, many names come to my head. Smiljan Radic, Roberto Matta, Alfredo Jaar, Santiago Errazuriz,  Vicente Huidobro or Pedro Lemebel, but all this famous people are male! So I realized that if I think of someone that I admire beyond their work, Jacinta Besa comes to my mind. She is an artist, that even though she isn´t that famous yet, she has an incredible ability to paint, but with plasticine. YES only using melted plasticine. So, there is one of the many reason I admire her. Because she creates amazing paintings with a material that seems so childish. There are other Chilean artist that had used this material as Magdalena Atria (also a great Chilean painter), but Jacinta Besa has this special technique were she creates images more similar to reality. Beside her age, she is really young and a female, she has developed a huge collection and each day is more famous. I have seen her different works in galleries and art events like FAXXI and Ch.aco.  Sadly she decided to take a break from art and started to travel around the world.  I have seen her in some of the art events, and once I had the opportunity to visit her workshop, because my mom had this job she was asked to visit different artist. So if I ever have the chance to meet her, I will asked her about something not related to her work, as I even know where she buys the plasticine, anything she wanted to tell me, maybe her favorite book of movie, I don’t know.

http://www.jacintabesa.cl/Mural-de-plasticina-Suenos-e-inconsciente-Modeling-clay-mural-Dreams