José Miguel
Mardones

This application is presented as a duo of artist, José Miguel Mardones (representative of the application) and Simón Fuentes. Both have developed artistic projects for more than 20 years through their gallery, Estudio Simbiotika, with a strong territorial context in the Central Valley of Chile, with installation, curatorship, research and publications

José Miguel Mardones biography
José Miguel Mardones is an architect with studies at Universidad de Talca and Universitá Degli Studi di Genova. Has collaborated with differents offices such as Pop Arq in Buenos Aires, 51-1 in Lima and Susuka in Santiago de Chile and the Latin American Collective Supersudaca. In 2010 founded his studio Archmotion, carrying out projects at differents scales and contexts such as Chile, Argentina, Perú, USA, Angola, China, United Arab Emirates, Lithuania and Russia. Locally, he is developing projects with territorial impact in the region that contribute to local economies, such as renewal and post earthquake urban initiatives, the survey of the andes mountain tourism potential and the enhancement of archaeological resources.
One of its latest projects has been the enhancement of an indigenous cementery with more than 10.500 years old, the oldest in Latin America, published in Diario El País de España and selected for the Eduwik Architecrture Excellence Awards 2022
He is director and curator of Estudio Simbiotika in Talca, Central Valley of Chile.

Simón Fuentes belongs to a group of visual artist who best represents the current art of the Maule region. Between the 1990/1992 studied graphic Design at Randwick College of Tafe in Sydney, Australia. For more than 20 years it has developed extensive plastic research around adobe (mudbrick). In 2022 he made the installation Walls in the Talca Regional Library. In 2003 he presented the Signals Installation Parallels in the GAC Contemporary Art Gallery of the Universidad de Talca. In 2004 he presented the “Al Centro” installation and in 2005 the S/N Visual Residues in Gabriel Pando Gallery. In 2005 he presented sculpture/art and objects at Banco estado in Santiago de Chile and the same year the “Aire” installation in the Calligraphic Gallery in Molina and “Instalaciones Cartográficas de Localización” in Galería Gabriela Mistral in Santiago de Chile. In 2012 he presented the installation “Family Basket” in the Metropolitan Gallery in the context of the 2nd Santiago Art Triennial. In 2013 “Transferencias Trasatlánticas” in Sala de Carga, a projects by Luis Paraíso (Madrid, Spain) and Luis Baptista (Lisboa, Portugal). In the same way has participated in activities that reflect the research and plastic creation such like “Puro Chile” workshops and conversations in Cuencua, Ecuador or artistic residence in Lincoln, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2018 he participated in the Nomad Art Biennial in Cuenca, Ecuador.
He is director and curator of Estudio Simbiotika in Talca, Central Valley of Chile.