Temuquense painter Francisco Badilla receives important award in Europe.
Achieved. He won first place in a competition held by the Municipality of Valencia de Alcántara, in Spain.
The artistic work of Francisco Badilla, a professor of painting and drawing at the Catholic University of Temuco and the Escuela Artistica Armando Dufey, is increasingly recognized in the Iberian Peninsula.
In addition to the two special mentions that he already received this year in Porto (Portugal) and Oviedo (Spain) respectively, he has now been awarded the first prize in the 23rd Indalecio Hérnandez Vallejo International Painting Competition, organized by the Municipality of Alcantara (Spain). With an oil painting entitled "The Color Collector", Badilla won over 260 artists residing in the European Union who submitted a total of 345 works to the competition. The award ceremony took place on December 6th
"The collector of colors"
STYLE
Framed within contemporary realism, Badilla's winning work presents a girl painting sitting in an excruciator's room in a gray atmosphere."It is an invitation to look at the world with the eyes of joy, creativity and without prejudices" says Badilla, "something very necessary in the national contingency that we are living in Chile at this time". The title of the painting is a wink to the artist Miguel Angel Mayo, known as "Golucho", a world reference of the contemporary realism with which Badilla could be formed in Barcelona (Spain) recently. "I could say that with Golucho I went from painting in color to painting in color" says Badilla, "the mastery I have gained over color explains in large part the new recognition I have obtained".
TRAJECTORY.
Badilla has been in Portugal since September 2018 studying a Master's Degree in Painting at the University of Porto with a bexa Conicyt.His international training also includes two stays at the prestigious academy The Art Students League of New York, in the United States.
In Chile, Badilla has won 4 national and 3 regional awards. In 2014 it won the painting contest organized annually by the Temuco Minucipalidad "La Araucania de cordillera a mar".
Author: Diario El Austral
Date:DEC 16, 2019