Defending the right of access to education for the Chilean youth, Federica MATTA created the poster " Educacion es un Derecho " - Education is a right - , published in Le Monde Diplomatique in Chile.

A printable version was published on the site of Le Monde Diplomatique (Chilean edition).
For the 4th edition of the Pop Art Collector, the artist Federica Matta has been considered for the great quality of her realization of 6 POP Collectors highly symbolic, universalist and cosmopolitan. This talented artist thereby offers us a series outcoming from a dreamlike universe, peopled with mythological creatures coming from old genesis or recent invention.

Murales of Federica in Quilpue's subway in Chile

Federica created 14 murales for the Quilpue's subway station in the region of Valparaiso. The realization of this artwork was made with the artists of the Marga Marga province who worked with Federica in the studios of Esther Valencia.
The president Michelle Bachelet unveiled the murales with Federica Matta, the deputy Marcello Schilling and his wife Loreto Morras.

 

President Bachelet unveils the Murales of Federica Matta in the Metro of Quilpué
Article of the regional newspaper El Matutino (Chile), following by a video of Federica Matta's speech.


"Con estas cosas nuevas podemos crear un territorio nuevo donde nos podemos encontrar"
Interview of Federica Matta realized by Oscar Aspillaga, Cristian Mena and Pablo Ramírez Torrejón from Matutino.

Federica Matta and the Arthur Rimbaud junior high-school's pupils of Montpellier

The work of the Arthur Rimbaud's pupils with Federica has been developped in 2007-2008 by a tutoring program between pupils. This is more than a hundred pupils that are participating now to this project.
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As last year, Federica's work with the children gave rise to an exhibition Orage-Mirage : The Pearls of Dragons at the Chapelle du Verbe Incarné in Avignon (France).


Federica Matta, The Art of Color
A portrayal by Catherine Simon published in Le Monde, July 10th 2008.

Federica Matta, The Art of Travel
Chronicle by Hind Meddeb, June 22nd 2008 on France Info.
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