Emilio Ruiz

EMILIO RUIZ

Painter · Osorno, Chile → Amsterdam

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Statement

Born in Osorno and shaped by the tradition of the Huilliche people, exiled to the Netherlands at twenty-eight. The fusion of those two identities, the Chilean and the European, is where the work begins.

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From the studio

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Emilio Ruiz

Biography

A self-taught language

Associated with the automatic painting collective of Amsterdam and the Parisian movement Phases, and related to CoBrA. Exhibited across Europe since 1985, and at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago.

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