Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
Chile
Plantas nativas de Chile de uso ancentral y actual
Native plants of Chile for ancestral and current use
About
"The theme of the exhibition, which will take place in 2025, will focus on celebrating biodiversity in crops that have been closely associated with the human species for thousands of years. The aim is to highlight the wide variety of plants traditionally used, in contrast to the limited variety currently employed in large-scale agriculture. Promoting this genetic diversity is crucial in a world challenged by a growing population, climate change, and habitat loss. In Chile, the invitation is to create illustrations that highlight native plants used both ancestrally and currently, whether for their medicinal, edible, textile, or construction properties, as well as any other uses related to human survival. Illustrations can also include wild relatives of other economically important crops."
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Organizers
Magdalena Pérez de Arce, Francisca Espinoza W., and Fundación Chilco
steering committee
Magdalena Pérez de Arce, Francisca Espinoza W. and Josefina Hepp
Contact
Exhibition Venue
Biblioteca Patrimonial Recoleta Dominica
Exhibition Dates
April 23 - August 12, 2025
Artwork
Botanical Art Worldwide 2018
Native Plants of Chile
About this Exhibition
Chile has announced its participation in Botanical Art Worldwide, and has formed a new artists group, “Circle of Naturalist Illustrators, Chile - CINC). The group will be holding a master classes in botanical art before the deadline for entries, which is December 18, 2017. A series of events will be held in the venue and other locations to reach a broad audience. The group can be contacted at ilustradoresnaturalistaschile@gmail.com and their website is https://ilustradoresnatura.wixsite.com/cinc
artwork
Chilean orchids are commonly unknown both abroad and within Chile. They're found throughout the country and have unique features: they show interesting color combinations on their tepals, like white and black, yellow and black, green and yellow and green and white. They are mostly terrestrial, unlike their tropical relatives, and depend on the fungi on their soil to survive. This makes them one of the most threatened groups in Chile. Andrea Ugarte has illustrated many orchid species and some of them are new discoveries and have never been illustrated.
Bipinnula gabriel, Pen and Ink, ©Andrea Ugarte 2012
Ranunculus uniflorus, watercolor on paper ©Francisca Espinoza 2016
This tiny Ranunculaceae from central Chile likes living along water courses and damp places up in the mountains, sometimes reaching up to 2000 meters of altitude.
Francisca Espinoza did this beautiful painting, combining graphite and watercolor, one of the characteristics of her work
Organizer
Circulo de Ilustradores Naturalistas de Chile
The organizing group of CINC, from left, Magdalena Pérez-de Arce, Javiera Dalaunoy, Geraldine Mackinnon, Francisca Espinoza, and Patricia Dominguez. Photo courtesy CINC.
Steering Committee
Geraldine MacKinnon
Francisca Espinoza
Patricia Dominguez
exhibition Venue
Recoleta Dominica Patrimonial Center, Santiago, Chile
Recoleta Dominica Library. Photo courtesy Francisca Esponoza
Recoleta Dominica Library exterior. Photo courtesy Francisca Espinoza
The Biblioteca of the Recoleta Dominica was founded in 1753, and holds one of the most important collections of historical books in Latin America, numbering over 115,000 volumes. Also located in the Recoleta Dominica Patrimonial Center is a Decorative Arts Museum, whose mission is to demonstrate the way in which objects of decorative arts transform the world around us.
Location
Centro Patrimonial Recoleta Dominica, 683 Recoleta, Santiago, Chile