{{Short description|Chilean visual artist}} {{Cleanup translation|Spanish|type=check|listed=nolist|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Voluspa Jarpa Saldías | image = Voluspa Jarpa (UNTREF - Bienal Sur 2016).jpg | birth_date = 1971 | birth_place = Rancagua, Chile | nationality = | movement = | known_for = Painting, installations, sculpture | notable_works = Plague (2008), Project Dislocation | spouse = | children = | awards = Circle of Critics of Art of Chile Award (2008), Altazor Award nomination (2011) | website = }} '''Voluspa Jarpa Saldías''' (Rancagua, 1971) is a Chilean painter and visual artist of the 1990s who has been involved in painting, installations, and sculpture.<ref name="ref_1"/><ref name="ref_12"/>
She studied for a degree in art at the University of Chile.<ref name="ref_1"/><ref name="ref_7"/> Her work is characterized by urban and reflexive subjects "both on the problem of dynamic displacement of the city, insecurity, abandonment and destruction, and the means of representation of the pictorial image with all the facilities and difficulties that the modern artist must take into account when creating the work." In addition she has incorporated digital technology as a representational tool in her work.<ref name="ref_1"/><ref name="ref_10"/>
In 2008, she won an award from the Circle of Critics of Art of Chile for the exhibition ''Plague'' (2008) in the visual arts category.<ref name="ref_5"/> In 2011, she received a nomination for the Altazor Award in the media arts category for ''Project Dislocación.'' ''Library of the No - History of Chile''.<ref name="ref_2"/>
She participated in several individual and collective exhibitions during her career, among them the 5th Havana Biennial (1997), the 3rd Biennial of the Mercosur in Carry Cheerful (2001), ''Without Fear Neither'' Hope in the Regional Museum of Ancud (2004), ''Residence in the Valley'' in the Museum of Visual arts of Santiago (2005), the exhibitions Painting Mural/The Place of Rancagua, ''Young Art in Chile 1986 - 1996'' and ''Chile Austria'' in the National Museum of Fine arts of Chile (1994, 1997 and 2000 respectively), Paris-Santiago, The Genius of the Bastilla in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago (1999), among other exhibitions in Chile, Latin America, Canada, United States and Europe.<ref name="ref_1"/><ref name="ref_3"/><ref name="ref_6"/><ref name="ref_8"/><ref name="ref_9"/><ref name="ref_11"/><ref name="ref_13"/>
== References == {{Reflist|2|refs= <ref name=ref_1>{{cite web|title=Voluspa Jarpa (1971-) |url=http://www.artistasplasticoschilenos.cl/biografia.aspx?itmid=904 |accessdate=2013-06-24 |work=APCh, Artistas plásticos chilenos|editor=Biblioteca del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes}}</ref> <ref name=ref_2>{{cite web|title=Voluspa Jarpa - Proyecto Dislocación. Biblioteca de la No - Historia de Chile |url=http://www.premioaltazor.cl/voluspa-jarpa/ |accessdate=2013-06-24 |work=Artes Visuales - Escultura|editor=Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales}}</ref> <ref name=ref_3>{{cite web |author=Valdés Urrutia, Cecilia |title=Exposición. En busca de un nuevo lenguaje: Voluspa Jarpa indaga en la visualidad de la histeria |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={a4084da3-edbd-47a0-a861-7f2f7f07f6d7} |accessdate=2013-06-24 |work=Artes y Letras |date=17 August 2008 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_5>{{cite web |title=Premios a la creación. Voluspa Jarpa y Marcelo Lillo como lo mejor de 2008 |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={4a519a87-5a3b-4bcf-a283-285e774ac654} |accessdate=2013-07-02 |work=Actividad cultural |date=30 November 2008 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_6>{{cite web |author=Silva Astorga, Daniela |title=La cumbre artística brasileña comienza en septiembre: Eugenio Dittborn será homenajeado en la próxima Bienal del Mercosur |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={d682f80e-a82a-4938-b5e3-5c7d791ff847} |accessdate=2013-07-02 |work=Actividad cultural |date=4 June 2011 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_7>{{cite web|title=Voluspa Jarpa. Rancagua, Chile, 1971|url=http://galeriagm.cultura.gob.cl/coleccion_artista/v/33|accessdate=2013-07-02 |editor=Galería Gabriela Mistral}}</ref> <ref name=ref_8>{{cite web |author=Sommer, Waldemar |title=Exposiciones. Enero: Concepto e ilusión |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={24a302cb-b3ec-49bd-8444-2c7930744ede} |accessdate=2013-07-02 |work=Artes y Letras |date= 7 January 2007 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_9>{{cite web |author=Sommer, Waldemar |title=Exposiciones. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Galería Animal y Gabriela Mistral: Cucos y geometrías |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={e7e02828-a831-43cf-add8-d316ff8f03e9} |accessdate=2013-07-02 |work=Artes y Letras |date=14 July 2002 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_10>{{cite web |title=La Ciudad en Proceso |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={1cf0ad68-24b4-4ac2-984a-4948088f0748} |accessdate=2013-07-02 |work=Cultura y Espectáculos |date= 11 May 2001 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_11>{{cite web |title=Balmes y Jarpa |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={f4a6968a-b399-4bb4-94d5-cedf529496a7} |accessdate=2013-07-02 |work=Cultura y Espectáculos |date=22 March 2001 |editor=El Mercurio }}</ref> <ref name=ref_12>{{cite web|author=Tala, Alexia|title=Entrevista a Voluspa Jarpa|url=http://www.artishock.cl/2011/07/entrevista-a-voluspa-jarpa/|accessdate=2013-07-02|date=20 July 2011|work=Artishock, Revista de Arte Contemporáneo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423180858/http://www.artishock.cl/2011/07/entrevista-a-voluspa-jarpa/|archive-date=23 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name=ref_13>{{cite web|author=Espinoza A., Denisse|title=Voluspa Jarpa, artista visual: "Vivimos en tal precariedad que si no viajas, no puedes ser artista"|url=http://papeldigital.info/lt/2012/01/29/01/paginas/049.pdf|format=PDF|page=49|accessdate=2013-07-02|work=Cultura&Entretención|editor=La Tercera|date=29 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113203/http://papeldigital.info/lt/2012/01/29/01/paginas/049.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> }}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarpa, Voluspa}} Category:University of Chile alumni Category:Chilean people of Basque descent Category:1971 births Category:People from Rancagua Category:Living people