The Coopriders bought two Cienfuegos artworks at the FIAC in Paris in 1990. They stayed in touch with Gonzalo as you will see in the correspondence shown under "Uncle Albert's Studio" in the Cooprider Family Collection - it remains one of their fond art-life memories, as well as this ink-on-paper Cienfuegos which is a harder-to-find example of his work.

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"Gonzalo Cienfuegos studied architecture at the Escuela de Arquitectura y Arte in Santiago, where he was born in 1949. He later left for Mexico and studied graphic design, painting and sculpture at the Escuela La Esmeralda in Mexico City. He returned to Chile in 1975 and is currently a professor of art at the Universidad Catolica in Chile.

Cienfuegos’ art displays conversance with the gamut of Western painting, with obvious quotes from the old and new masters: Jan Van Eyck, Rubens, Velasquez, Goya, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Delvaux and Balthus, among others. The individuals in Cienfuegos’ work are usually expressionless and introspective, occupying a strange world of their own.

Cienfuegos exhibited at the Săo Paulo Brazil Biennal in 1989, where he received the Art Critics Circle Award, and has continuously exhibited in Chile, Argentina, at the #FIAC in Paris-France, Mexico and the US. His solo exhibits include:, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Art Miami, Galeria Tomas Andreu; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA." (Bio Courtesy of The Cohen Family Collection)

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