René Olivares

"I grew up watching magazines and my mother's painting books, in which I discovered the life of the cursed artists in Paris and dreamed of imitating them one day".

[1] In 1972 René Olivares met Gato Alquinta, the guitarist and vocalist from the folk/progressive rock group Los Jaivas in Providencia.

In 1982 the band came back to Chile but the Olivares fall in love with a French woman and decided to stay in Paris.

"I am happy to have fulfilled the dream of being a painter in Paris, which I incubated as a child reading my mother's painting books".

Already imbued with some song, listeners cannot help but remember the incredible landscapes with which the painter wanted to exemplify these sounds".

[3] In 2013, by commemorating the fifty years of artistic life of Los Jaivas René Olivares participated at an exhibition in National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago.

To Teresita Raffray, responsible of the production of temporary exhibitions, it was the first time that there was such a musical presence in the museum.