Marcela Trujillo
Marcela Trujillo (Santiago de Chile, 1969), better known by her pseudonym Maliki,[1] is a Chilean visual artist, painter, cartoonist[2] and professor who has dabbled mainly in figurative art,[3] and neo-pop.[4] She is also one of the first exponents of Chilean autobiographical comics.[5]
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Biography
Trujillo studied fine arts at the University of Chile, and later at the Art Students League of New York, in New York City, and the School of Visual Arts in the same city.[6]
She uses mixed techniques in works of variable size.[7] Although she does not define herself as a militant of any feminist group, she acknowledges that in her pictorial work, it is possible to find this discourse, particularly in themes related to the defense of women's rights such as "the need to understand (...) [her] reality as a woman in this society".[8] Trujillo's pictorial work has focused on representing allegories of "female heroines in a futuristic perspective".[9]
She published her first comics in the Chilean adult comics magazine Trauko (1989) and while living in New York City, she published her series "Maliki 4 ojos" in the weekly The Clinic (2002/2003).[10] As a cartoonist, she published her comics in the newspaper El Desconcierto (2013) and in the online magazine Había una vez (2014/2015). She has been invited to numerous comic book festivals and events related to the dissemination of graphic storytelling (Caracas Book Fair, Venezuela, 2009; Latin American Comic Symposium, Stanford University, 2011; Comicópolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013; Lima en cuadritos, Lima, Peru, 2013).
References
- "Maliki Trujillo". Artes y Letras. El Mercurio. 30 November 2008. (in Spanish)
- "Destacados dibujantes chilenos buscan popularizar la historieta nacional en Viña del Mar". SoyChile (in Spanish). 24 August 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- "Marcela Trujillo". www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl (in Spanish). Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- Altamirano, Tania (21 February 2007). "Neo Pop chileno: Cultura de masas en la pintura sub 40". Actividad Cultural. El Mercurio. (in Spanish)
- Andueza, Carlos (19 January 2013). "Cómics autobiográficos chilenos: Las historietas también pueden ser diarios de vida". Actividad Cultural. El Mercurio. (in Spanish)
- "Marcela Trujillo - Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA". www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
- "Marcela Trujillo". www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl (in Spanish). Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- Errazuriz L., María José (17 October 2012). "Marcela Trujillo: La antihéroe que cree que las mujeres tienen el don para el comic | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- "Artista Marcela Trujillo abre segunda exposición en una semana | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). 19 March 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- Trujillo, Marcela. "Vida". Portal de arte.