Medal of the City of Valdivia
Medal of the City of Valdivia, Chile, for the creation of a monumental sculpture during the 5th International Sculpture Symposium.
Alberto Von Fach
An international career
Since the 1980s, Alberto Von Fach’s artistic career has unfolded across studios, galleries, salons, cultural centres, public spaces and artistic institutions.
His work has circulated in various international contexts, affirming a body of work deeply connected to matter, territory and the gaze.
Distinctions
Medal of the City of Valdivia, Chile, for the creation of a monumental sculpture during the 5th International Sculpture Symposium.
10th International Salon of Painting and Sculpture of Nancy: Gold Medal for the Promotion of the Arts awarded by the jury.
4th International Grand Prix of Plastic Arts of the City of Nice: Special Public Prize.
Medal of the General Council of Val-d’Oise, First Prize for Sculpture and Medal of the Bicentenary and Freedom awarded by the city of Eragny-sur-Oise.
Silver Medal Art-Sciences-Letters, crowned by the Académie Française, Prix Thorlet. Medal of Honour and Silver Medal for Teaching and Social Education.
Diploma of the European Academy of Arts with Gold Medal in tribute to his artistic value.
Special Grand Prize of the 20th anniversary of the European Academy of Arts in Paris.
Artistic chronology
Permanent exhibition of various works, sculptures and paintings in his studio and conference room in Paris 75019.
Permanent exhibition of three monumental works at the Château de La Bussière, France.
Exhibition at the Shanghai Sculpture Space in preparation for the 2010 World Expo in China. Exhibition in Puerto Montt, Chile, in honour of the artist’s career.
Participation in the 11th International Art Fair of Canton at the International Palace of Canton. Art Day at the Ritz Hotel, Place Vendôme. LINEART 2006 in Ghent, exhibition at Sala Barna in Barcelona, Salon Parc Avenue at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, exhibition at the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne and creation of two monumental sculptures in Chile.
Solo exhibition of the artist at the Hôtel Jean Hérault de Gourville, La Rochefoucauld, with the exhibition “Sous le patio”.
French national travelling exhibition by the magazine “Vision sur les Arts”, lasting two years, alongside major artists such as Renoir, Corot, Degas, Picasso, Matisse, Dalí, Chagall, Maillol, Bonnard and Von Fach.
Exhibition at the Chilean North American Institute of Culture in Chile.
Permanent exhibition at the NEB’ART gallery in Narbonne.
Exhibition at the EVERARTS gallery in Paris. Participation in the 5th International Symposium of Monumental Sculpture in Valdivia, Chile. Exhibition of monumental sculptures in Santiago, Chile.
Participation in the Salon des Indépendants at the Eiffel-Branly space, Paris.
Invited to exhibit at the Clotilde-de-Vaux Cultural Centre in Paris, as part of the National Celebrations of the Ministry of Culture commemorating the bicentenary of Auguste Comte’s birth.
Guest of honour at the 2nd Art Biennial of Vigneux. Selected for the 2nd edition of the Exhibition of Monumental Sculptures in the city of Antibes.
Solo exhibition in Paris at the Marie de Holmsky Gallery in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Participation in the International Salon of Painting and Sculpture of Vittel.
Invited to the 5th International Salon of Painting and Sculpture of Sarrebourg, under the presidency of Pierre Messmer. The artist illustrated “La Tribune Franco-Allemande” with his sculptures for the 5th Franco-German Day at Sciences Po in Paris.
Creation of the sculpture “Surrection” at the request of the city of Eragny-sur-Oise to symbolize the Franco-Hungarian twinning between Eragny-sur-Oise and Komló. Participation in the Salon of the Artistic Society of Étampes and in the International Salon of Painting and Sculpture of Nancy.
Guest of honour of the Essonne-Guyane exhibition in Étampes. Selected for the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais, Paris.
Selected for the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais. Exhibition at the Hérouet Gallery in Paris. Invited by critic Damián Bayón as part of the exhibition “33 Latin American Sculptors”. Selected for the Pevsner Prize at the Centre Georges Pompidou and for the 4th International Grand Prix of Plastic Arts of the City of Nice.
Major exhibition at the Boris Graal Gallery, Paris, with works from 1974 to 1991. Permanent exhibition of recent and earlier sculptures in the same gallery.
Invited to exhibit in Clichy-la-Garenne as part of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. In Eragny-sur-Oise, he created the monumental sculpture “Metamorphosis of Freedom” for the city.
Presentation of his works by the Historical Museum of Montmartre in Paris, under the high patronage of René Huyghe and Maurice Rheims of the Académie Française.
European exhibition at UNESCO, under the high patronage of the Vice-President of the European Community.
Presentation of his works by the Cultural Centre of Aeronautics of Toulouse. Participation in the European Art Salon in Paris.
Guest of honour of the European Academy of Arts. Presentations in Paris and at the Château de Maisons-Laffitte. Foundation in Paris of the Pezoa Véliz Academy with artists, critics, diplomats and journalists.
Presentations at the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Vera Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the Chaillot-Galliera Centre, the town hall of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris and the Château de Maisons-Laffitte.
Exhibitions in Paris, Louvain, Antwerp, Brussels, Charleroi and Mons.
Presentations in Choisy-le-Roi, Asnières-sur-Seine, Alès and Meudon. Participation with the Marais Painters Group in several Parisian spaces, as well as in the 32nd Exhibition of Young Painters – Young Expression at the Parc Floral of Paris.
Presentations at the Don Bosco Centre in Kessel-Louvain, Belgium, and at the Ochier Museum of Cluny, France.
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