The adventure
Interview to Américo Caamaño.
Abstract
Américo Caamaño received his plastic-academic training at the Universidad de Concepción, some of his teachers were Jaime Fica, Albino Echeverría, Eduardo Meissner, Enrique Ordóñez and Iván Contreras. He has chosen engraving as his preferred means of expression. In 2004 he received the Municipal Award for Art and Culture of Tomé. In 2017 he received the Educa UBB Award, from the Universidad del Bío-Bío for relevant merits in his career as a visual artist and as a printmaker. For nine years, he sporadically leaves the normal circuits of presentation to assume some corners of the city of Tomé as an exhibition support, in integrated meetings of poetry, music, video and engraving. Some exhibitions: 2005-2006, individual exhibition of woodcuts "A toda costa... por Tomé", University Hall of Concepción, Nemesio Antúnez hall of the Metropolitan University of Santiago, exhibition hall of the I. Municipality of Quilpué and hall of the Intendencia de Valparaíso; 2007, exhibition of woodcuts "Alguna vez los trenes...", El Faro hall of the University of Valparaíso; 2013, international group exhibition, tribute to Pablo Neruda, Espace Saint-Rèmi, Bordeaux, France; 2018, group exhibition "Mirror-facetoface-. Italian and chilean artists exhibition", at Qu.Bi Gallery, Vicenza, Italy.
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