Bio

Andrea Plaza Carrasco aka Anplac is a ceramist, painter, fashion designer and entrepreneur based in France.

She was born in Buenos Aires on August 6, 1976 to Chilean parents.

His first approach and real interest in art was to explore ceramics and specifically study pre-Hispanic ceramics in Chile and Argentina. She continues to explore the techniques of sandstone and raku in objects that oscillate between the utilitarian, the illustration on utilitarian pieces and the naif sculpture.

She began to paint murals during her studies of Fine Arts in the streets of Valparaiso then drifts the large brushstrokes on the walls to focus on large salvaged fabrics in the privacy of her studio while thinking of the capture of nature and more precisely to defend an awareness of ecology.

In 2010, she launched her own independent fashion brand "La Coliflor" exploring original clothing made and hand painted, seeking that her collections are always inspired by nature and its protection.

Since 2012, she has co-founded a total of two start-ups in Chile and one in Portugal, working to deliver creativity and marketing to local businesses.

Currently, Andrea Plaza's works in painting address subjects related to capitalism. His “Art pour argent” series offers an individual glimpse into the cryptocurrency revolution of our time.

The artist wishes to make a comparison and equate bitcoin with art which both offer an outlet for personal wealth beyond restriction and confiscation. The freedom to which the human being aspires and which the creator achieves through art with his hands and his mind, with his body and his mind can be compared to what the beginning of the digital age and the Internet have especially given us, makes you feel. And this quickly made the birth of cryptocurrency possible.

Art(gent) pour Argent Series

Encircled in bitcoins, it illustrates leaves, crowns, meditative characters, fish, so many symbols where power creates conflict. She sends visual messages on ecology as the recurring symbol of the leaf, on the economy, with the recurring symbol of the crown which places money as king above all, and a political message when she paints portraits of Chilean men with dozens of eyes.

The artist works with acrylic paint to compose backgrounds of multiple textured layers to which she then adds a drawing with a brush, posca or felt-tip pen. She prepares her recycled fabrics from torn sheets, recovered theater skies, abandoned tea towels to make them her base of work knowing that she recycles them. She paints these fabrics on the ground, on plastic sheeting where paints from other fabrics accumulate and adhere to the new fabrics. This gives continuity to his work, like a chain of paintings linked by previous works and in each painting the color of the previous painting exists.

EXHIBITIONS

March 15 - June 15, 2021. Solo Exhibition.

"Crypto is ('nt) Eco - Two faces of the same coin". Paintings

Curated by Gilléad-Gaari Mziray.

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/crypto-is-n-t-eco-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/0gLSj7BADranIw

https://www.f-99.org/cryptoiseco

September 21 - 30, 2020. Virtual Group Exhibition.

“Global Conversation” 1st Round. Paintings.

Curated by Gilléad-Gaari Mziray.

https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/2463855/global-conversation-2020

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/global-conversation-2020/AwKS-tmWI3mlKQ

September 1 - 21, 2020. Virtual Group Exhibition.