Figures of mysterious basketry
- José Miguel began his journey through craftsmanship around 2014
- His specialties are basketry in vegetable fibre and painting
- His pieces are a symbiosis of the ancestral and the modern
José Miguel Marty Lizana's training began with applied and visual arts. After a reflection on identity, dependence on materials and culture as the interaction of human beings with their environment, his work began to focus on the rescue of crafts, techniques, or popular construction systems. "There is more concrete rootedness when working with resources or materials from a specific territory," says José Miguel. "I have already spent years studying popular techniques and applying them, dialoguing and articulating activities with artisans. So far I have specialised in working with vegetable fibre, wool and other native raw materials," he adds. "I have had many different teachers throughout Chile."
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INTERVIEW
While volunteering in Puerto Saavedra (southern Chile) in 2014. There I learned to work with vegetable fibre basketry. Seeing its aesthetic potential and the independence of raw materials to develop the craft, I decided to turn most of my artistic work to traditional crafts with a contemporary approach.
That year I learned their traditional crafts to see how I could help them in their own creative language. From then on, I never stopped learning traditional crafts centred on the raw materials of the territories where I travelled.
My work in traditional crafts is built exclusively from raw materials that I obtain in the specific territory I visit or inhabit. For the last five years I have been in the Atacama region, in the north of Chile.
I mix them by working with traditional crafts, but mixing different raw materials in the making of a piece. In some cases, I even mix more than one craft in the construction of an object.
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