Colomba Fontaine
Bio
Colomba Fontaine (Santiago, Chile, 1987) Graduated in 2010 from Fine Arts at Universidad Católica. In 2013 she studied printmaking, ceramics and mixed media at the School of Visual Arts (NY), Lower East Side Printshop Inc (NY) and The Art Student League of New York (NY). She was selected for the Taller Bloc tuition program on the year 2015.
Among some of her individual exhibits are "Anaqueles" at the Centro Cultural de España (2017), “Entrever” at Galería NAC (2017) and “El fuego, el mar, el niño” at the same gallery (2021). She has also been part of a series of collective exhibitions like "La deriva del gesto y la forma" at MAVI (2020) and Centro Cultural Ex Cárcel (2018), "Blockbuster" (2018) and "Expanded" at Galería Somos Art House (Berlin, 2017), just to name a few. She is represented by Galería NAC since 2016 and has participated in different fairs like ArtLima or ChACO.
Statement
My work comes from an investigation involving the process and result of traditional printmaking. I intend to retrieve the addition-and-subtraction-of-material method by which a matrix is made, not as a process to print an image, but as its result and physical component. I work mainly with wax and stoneware ceramics. These are altered or mixed with different inks in order to create intercalated layers that are then carved, making an image appear. The line is the gesture with which I make that image. It is subject to the medium’s limits, establishing a connection of continuity or a crack, depending on its composition or its own nature.
What I do consists of a technical exploration with unexpected results, which occur due to similar processes with different elements, testing the limits of the materials’ properties, working neatly to unknown behaviours.
