Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney — a red rotary telephone built as a village, its dial a palette of animal heads
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, framed and ready to hang
Detail 1 of Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, Valparaíso, Chile
Detail 2 of Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, Valparaíso, Chile
Close detail of Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, showing brushwork in oil
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 1
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 2
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 3
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 4
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney — a red rotary telephone built as a village, its dial a palette of animal heads
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, framed and ready to hang
Detail 1 of Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, Valparaíso, Chile
Detail 2 of Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, Valparaíso, Chile
Close detail of Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, showing brushwork in oil
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 1
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 2
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 3
Sin Contestacion by Lobsang Durney, view 4
Lobsang Durney

Sin Contestacion (Print)

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Lobsang Durney is a contemporary Chilean artist from Valparaiso, Chile. In his work, Lobsang focuses on painting post-apocalyptic surrealist worlds, where he mixes realistic and imaginary subjects and storylines.

 

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Heavy wood stretcher bars Valparaíso, Chile

The original oil on canvas, 30x40 inches, sold from our gallery in June 2021.

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Lobsang Durney takes an ordinary object — an alarm clock, a teapot, a rotary telephone, a pair of sneakers — and enlarges it until people can live inside. He calls the method placing everyday elements "on a larger plane, one that generates human habitability." A Mercedes bus becomes a hillside neighborhood on stilts. A steam locomotive becomes a village. A lighthouse is also a faucet, because grifo and faro fit together.

He qualified as an architect before he was a painter, and it shows in the way in. However impossible the structure, there are stairs — treads, landings, scaffolding in violet, a door you could reach. The material is corrugated tin, curved and folded and stacked, which is what Valparaíso is actually built from. He calls this valporizing: loading whatever he takes possession of with the identity of his home city.

The ground beneath is often ruined — rubble, open sea, a field of skulls. The thing standing on it is candy-bright and full of people, with laundry hung out and the lights on. "I think it is a mistake not to look for beauty in art," he has said, "although it may sound retrograde to many contemporary artists."

In 2013 he took the jury's special prize at the Salón de Viña del Mar, Chile's national painting competition. His work has been shown at the Palacio Vergara in Viña del Mar, at the Musée du Mécanic Art in France, and twice at the Universidad de Valparaíso's Sala El Farol.

Read more about Lobsang — the architect who builds cities out of clocks.

Lobsang Durney next to his painting in Valparaiso, Chile

HD Metal Print Sample:

Canvas Print Sample, Gallery Wrap:

Canvas Print Sample, with a Maple Frame:

Contemporary Chilean Art

Five contemporary Chilean artists in our first group show.

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Postcards Set

Ten postcards from Lobsang's "Biomechanical Contraptions" series in one cute package.

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Interview with Lobsang

"An alliance between the topographical and the animalistic", Lobsang's interview in La Estrella newspaper, Valpraraiso, Chile.

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