JOSE BASSO

Jose Basso was born in Chile in 1949 and graduated in Arts at the University of Chile. He later became an Art teacher at the same University in 1978. Jose began exhibiting and winning awards starting in 1975, from the Valparaiso II International Biennial Exhibition Prize to the Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition in London. He has been granted several scholarships, among them one to Paris in 1981, Amigos del Arte 1982, Fundacion Andes 1991 and the Fondart in 2001.

Basso quickly became famous in his own country and started exhibiting in Europe and USA in 1979. Currently he has had very successful shows in Brazil, China Puerto Rico, Argentina, Columbia, Japan, Italy, England, Finland, Argentina, Africa, Spain, as well as Washington DC, Miami, and New York. His work can be found in major galleries throughout the United States.

The work of Jose Basso reveals such an artistic honesty that it can be seen as a contemporary form of illumination. His paintings provoke the sensation of the forthrightness of the landscape with a depth of remembrance, a truth that slowly emerges. Combining minimalism with humanistic views, dramatic scenes are splendidly portrayed, arousing the viewers expectations. The house symbolizing a shelter of the deepest aspirations of mankind. Basso shares with us-“the excess of stimuli makes my art the most open as possible to all languages. I want to remain an apprentice all my life.”

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