AwardDecember 18, 2020
Voluspa Jarpa recipient of the Julius Baer Award
In the first edition of the Julius Baer Prize for Latin American artists, held in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), the Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa was awarded with the work “Sindemia.”
The selection took place in several phases; first, the jury formed by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Barbara Staubli, and Eugenio Viola proposed an initial list of 22 women artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. Among those were shortlisted five finalists: Sandra Gamarra (Peru), Sandra Monterroso (Guatemala), Rosângela Rennó (Brazil), Mariela Scafati (Argentina), and Voluspa Jarpa (Chile); they were invited to participate with an unpublished project for the creation of a work in situ.
Julius Baer Award’s mission is to pay tribute to women artists from Latin America for their innovations, research, and influences in contemporary art. Voluspa Jarpa will be granted US $25,000 to develop a new project in situ, which will be exhibited in July 2021, on the third floor of the MAMBO. It will be supported by the Julius Baer Art Collection and the MAMBO throughout the creation, execution, and set-up of the project. A catalog of the exhibition will be made.
Regarding the award, Eugenio Viola commented, “It is a work that focuses on the mechanisms of oppression conceived by an authoritarian regime in the face of national protest. Voluspa Jarpa defies sensitive issues related to the Chilean reality, marked by violence and serious police abuses, but also resonant with the current Colombian context and, by extension, with many other parts of the world that face the same reprehensible circumstances.”
Voluspa Jarpa, the winner of the award, declared: “I receive this award with humility, and the first thing is to direct my recognition to the other nominated artists, their work and careers, and with them, the other women artists in Latin America. I honor this recognition received from your hand, and I thank all the people who have collaborated with my artistic work and have made it possible. I feel behind me the collective struggle of many generations of women who could not enjoy such a significant distinction as this. I also think about my students and the Latin American feminist movements, and I hope this can inspire them. My sincere wish is that the merits of women occupy a relevant place in the public world, that our contribution to art and ideas is disseminated since we are a significant part of society, and we have things to say and show. The project that I have presented is carried out from perplexity and anger, but above all, from a deep love for young people, who reveal themselves and rise to make Latin America a better society. For them, my admiration, respect, and wishes that the claimed dignity shape our near future.”
Julius Baer is the leading Swiss group in wealth management and a prestigious brand in this sector globally. Their specialty is providing services and advice to the most demanding private clients, a task it has carried out for 130 years. The group shows a strong commitment to culture and the arts through the Julius Baer Art Collection. Founded in 1981, the Julius Baer Art Collection has more than 5,000 artworks, exhibited in the bank’s facilities worldwide.
The selection took place in several phases; first, the jury formed by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Barbara Staubli, and Eugenio Viola proposed an initial list of 22 women artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. Among those were shortlisted five finalists: Sandra Gamarra (Peru), Sandra Monterroso (Guatemala), Rosângela Rennó (Brazil), Mariela Scafati (Argentina), and Voluspa Jarpa (Chile); they were invited to participate with an unpublished project for the creation of a work in situ.
Julius Baer Award’s mission is to pay tribute to women artists from Latin America for their innovations, research, and influences in contemporary art. Voluspa Jarpa will be granted US $25,000 to develop a new project in situ, which will be exhibited in July 2021, on the third floor of the MAMBO. It will be supported by the Julius Baer Art Collection and the MAMBO throughout the creation, execution, and set-up of the project. A catalog of the exhibition will be made.
Regarding the award, Eugenio Viola commented, “It is a work that focuses on the mechanisms of oppression conceived by an authoritarian regime in the face of national protest. Voluspa Jarpa defies sensitive issues related to the Chilean reality, marked by violence and serious police abuses, but also resonant with the current Colombian context and, by extension, with many other parts of the world that face the same reprehensible circumstances.”
Voluspa Jarpa, the winner of the award, declared: “I receive this award with humility, and the first thing is to direct my recognition to the other nominated artists, their work and careers, and with them, the other women artists in Latin America. I honor this recognition received from your hand, and I thank all the people who have collaborated with my artistic work and have made it possible. I feel behind me the collective struggle of many generations of women who could not enjoy such a significant distinction as this. I also think about my students and the Latin American feminist movements, and I hope this can inspire them. My sincere wish is that the merits of women occupy a relevant place in the public world, that our contribution to art and ideas is disseminated since we are a significant part of society, and we have things to say and show. The project that I have presented is carried out from perplexity and anger, but above all, from a deep love for young people, who reveal themselves and rise to make Latin America a better society. For them, my admiration, respect, and wishes that the claimed dignity shape our near future.”
Julius Baer is the leading Swiss group in wealth management and a prestigious brand in this sector globally. Their specialty is providing services and advice to the most demanding private clients, a task it has carried out for 130 years. The group shows a strong commitment to culture and the arts through the Julius Baer Art Collection. Founded in 1981, the Julius Baer Art Collection has more than 5,000 artworks, exhibited in the bank’s facilities worldwide.
