Illustrator Alen Lauzán published a drawing reflecting on the subject of centralized state and regionalization, one of the keys to the next-session of the Constituent Convention.
The work is part of a series of illustrations on the subject of the Chilean constituent process initiated in 2020, for the drafting of a new Constitution.
Each month, between May and October 2021, six illustrators and illustrators will draw this historic event through three drawings that will be disseminated virtually on the social networks of the French Institute of Chile and the newspaper El Mostrador.
This project, promoted and organized by the French Institute of Chile, offers the opportunity for artists, witnesses of their history, to enter into a creative process that values the diversity of views.
At the end of this project, all the illustrations will be published in a book and presented in an exhibition at the Cité de la BD d’ Angoulame (France).
Lauzán is a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic comedian. He has published his drawings in different media. His work is also distributed by Caglecartoons in the United States and Cartonclub in Mexico. He has illustrated several comics, book covers, albums, children’s books and political satire.
Among the cartoonists selected for this exhibition are Francisca Yáñez, illustrator, graphic designer and visual artist for different publishers and institutions linked to culture, children and human rights; Francisco Olea, author of six books whose common ground is graphic humor and awarded the Altazor Prize for the arts in the category “Design and Illustration”; Marcelo Escobar, winner of the Book Fund Prize in 2009, 2012 and 2013 and an honorable mention in Latidos Visuales, Latin American illustration contest of the University of Palermo (Buenos Aires) in 2014; Raquel Echeñique, awarded several awards such as the IBBY 2006 Honor Roll, the 2012 Hummingbird Medal, the Banco del Libro de Venezuela Award and the Amster-Coré Prize; and Sol Díaz, author of children’s stories, graphic humor books and graphic novels, who through her characters explores themes such as identity, freedom and questioning of the existing.
The organizers of the exhibition point out that “the opinions expressed in the drawings do not necessarily represent those of the French Institute of Chile and the French Embassy in Chile”.
