Collage is a relatively new form of art, at least in its modern style, invented by Surrealists and  Dadaists after the First World War.
In contrast with caricatures and other forms of visual art practiced since my early years, I started doing collages when already I had experience with  drawing and watercolors, and even oil painting, during the early sixties. On that time I did some experiments using assembling color papers together, but these were completely different from the collages I would perform later.
During my first stay in Italy in 1965, I met with groups of the Italian “new avant-garde”, in the city of Genoa.  These were  artists who performed many visual art experiments combining words with clipped drawings and photos, in a genuine Dada style. Soon I began similar experiments, and when I returned to Chile I worked on many collages. Some of them were exhibited in Art Fairs and even in Santiago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Actually, this was the only time my artwork has been exhibited in Chile. 
Some of this works survived and are shown here  (Venus, The Surgery and the collages published as a part of my book El bosque de vidrio)
Since then and up to the present I have practiced collage in parallel fashion to the  “literary” paintings and my surrealist watercolor originals. In the seventies, during my exile in Italy, I did many collages with a strong antifascist and provocative political contents (which also involves echoing Dada) with some of them surviving.
In recent years my collages are combined with con electronic digital processing, adding to them both revealing or mysterious effects.

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