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      • The Arts
        September 2019

        SHEILA HICKS. Reencounter

        by Carolina Arévalo, Monique Lévi-Strauss, Soledad Hoces de la Guardia, Michel Gauthier

        Reencounter, is the publication of the exhibition presented at the Museo de Arte Precolombino held from August 2019 to January 2020 in Santiago, Chile. The book presents the artist's work that dialogues with contemporary art and the legacy of american indigenous art. As a student of Josef Albers and with an artistic formation based on Bauhaus philosophy, in 1975 Sheila Hicks set out on a trip through South America, from Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego, a fundamental experience in her formation. It was in that journey through the Andes where she learned about textile techniques and ancestral cosmovisions that would change her life and where, inspired by the landscape and architecture of the south of America, she began her own textile artwork.

      • The Arts
        April 2021

        Altered Views. Voluspa Jarpa

        by Voluspa Jarpa, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Sabine Breitwieser, Charles Esche, Andrea Giunta, Alberto Mayol, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Adriana Valdés

        Altered Views. Voluspa Jarpa is the publication of the Chilean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale of Art, presented by Voluspa Jarpa and curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio. The project originates in a question the artist seeks to answer: how is the modernist, Eurocentric and colonial gaze configured? The gaze that later expands from Europe to the U.S. and constructs a symbolic contempt that is imposed as political, cultural and economic subjugation in non-hegemonic regions?Altered Views is an unprecedented research project that works as a cross-reference between various instances of European history from the 17th to the 20th Century, full of social manifestations, ethnographic searches and dominant powers, attempting to restore the conquered awe of the coloniser. The work seeks to rescue concepts coined from a Eurocentric perspective that shed light on the violence with which the world is reduced to an expansionist, developmentalist and hegemonic model. Altered Views is an invitation to reflect on issues that prevail and are still visible in our contemporary society. The volume contains a general text from the Chilean pavilion´s curator and editor of this book, Agustín Pérez Rubio explaining each part of the project; along with six different texts by Charles Esche, Sabine Breitwieser, Andrea Giunta, Adriana Valdés, Alberto Mayol and Cuauhtémoc Medina. These texts talk about the historical and contemporary repercussions of the hegemonic model.

      • The Arts
        January 2020

        Rough Work. Illustrated Architecture by Smiljan Radic

        by Smiljan Radic, Alan Chandler, Ricardo Serpell, Moisés Puente, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

        In the last years, Smiljan Radic has become in one of the most renowned architects in the world, mainly due to his work’s eccentricity, his “significative contribution to architecture as an art” as recognized by the Arnold W. Brunner of the American Institute of Architects in 2018. Rough Work, written mainly by Radic himself, is an essential compilation of his work. Smiljan shares his thoughts, inspirations, heroes, and a selection of 24 key works that allows us to understand the architect’s trajectory. "In it, you will find a stolen title and other tales, together with my writing, frustrated projects, drawings and scribbles, academic excercises, happy buildings in use, others that are gone now, and many engineering plans. It is all part of what I have been able to build through 2015—a past that today takes a natural and expectant position in my present work, as if it were REMEMBERING A FORGETTING."—Smiljan Radic.

      • The Arts
        December 2016

        Marcela Correa. Sculptures 1986-2015

        by Patricio Mardones, Smiljan Radic, Alberto Sato

        Marcela Correa, sculptor, graduated in Art at Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work is based on the various materials such as wood, stone and collected metal pieces that she combines, taking advantage of their own shapes and characteristics to achieve harmonious compositions that refer to the organic and the natural environment. Throughout her career, she has worked in partnership with the architect Smiljan Radic. Among his exhibitions are: Sculptures (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, 1998), Natural Sintético (Natural Synthetic (Galería Animal, 2002), El Niño Escondido en un Pez (The Boy Hidden in a Fish) (XII Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010), Peso Muerto (Dead Weight) (Galería Animal, 2011 ), The Wardrobe and the Mattress (Hermes Tokyo Japan Gallery, 2013), and Difunta Correa (Galería AFA, 2014), Corral (Galería Patricia Ready, 2016). Her works form part of the collection of various museums and are located in public places.

      • The Arts
        January 2011

        Still life. Josefina Guilisasti 1998—2010

        by Cecilia Brunson, Kevin Power

        STILL LIFE, collects the works developed over more than one decade by Chilean artist Josefina Guillisasti, period in which she works a personal understanding of the still life genre; a perspective that incorporates less evident aspects in order to focus on certain components such as private and commercial stories, pilgrimages, discovered territories, colonizing stages, and development and exploitation of capital. Guillisasti’s work represents in picture, from diverse points of view, objects such as jars, pots, cups, pans, teapots, porcelain birds and Persian rugs, translating their materiality: aluminum, enamel, porcelain and weaves. The format of Still Life modifies the representation of the work: what in exhibitions was a stage of series (each piece part of a total), is broken through the pages, since the represented objects are imposed to the reader in an individual form, with the idea to enable the individual approach to each paint. The book is complemented with two texts by Chilean curator Cecilia Brunson, and writer, art critic, and English academic Kevin Power.

      • The Arts

        Mouth Full of Silence

        by Sigismond de Vajay, Kimberlee Cole, Pedro Donoso, Nathalie Goffard, Cristóbal Joannon

        Mouth Full of Silence, compiles a series of works made by the Chilean artist Alejandro Quiroga, between 2016 and 2019, paintings that speak with their lights and shadows of a lost paradise, of a one must be recovered, and another that must be preserved; around different edges of Chilena landscape-nation, through portrayed places that reflect the results of man's action in the environment. As well as speaks of the transformation of Quiroga as an artist and as a person. The publication includes texts by the art historian and curator Kimberlee Cole, the theorists Pedro Donoso and Nathalie Goffard, and the journalist Cristóbal Joannon. Who with their own point of view, they address themes such as landscape, neoliberalism and the journey through the territory, creating a poetic and acute analysis of the current state of Chilean geography and its transformation. "I have been developing this work for several years, which makes a survey of the territory and the incidence of capitalism in it. From there, everything that is addressed has to do with our society and how we project ourselves as a country into the future. It is a purely political and visual work, which aims at a social reflection committed to natural resources, sustainable economy and ecology,” Alejandro Quiroga.

      • The Arts
        October 2016

        Magdalena Atria

        by Gerardo Mosquera, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Cristián Silva, Ricardo Loebell, Rodrigo Canala

        This publication displays the evolution of the Chilean artist Atria's work from the last twenty years, revealing a deeply personal way of addressing a wide range of references, from modernist abstraction to handcrafts and design. Going from the intimate to the monumental, her work offers in each case a specific encounter with objects, materials, and images visually compelling, open to multiple levels of meaning. The book includes essays by renowned curators and artists, throw light on different aspects of Atria's work.

      • The Arts
        March 2017

        Figuras recortadas por otra luz. José Pedro Godoy

        by Juan José Richards

        Figuras recortadas por otra luz, exhibits his emerging and productive career.It comprises a journey through the diverse period of Godoy’s work, and places on perspective his obsessions, as the development of a proposal that has maintained a defined and persistent line, transforming him into one of the few Chilean artists that breaches the subject of homosexuality in such a non-judgmental and direct manner. A constant reference to flashy elements extracted from nature, mass culture and human bodies, has been his language of expression, through irony or the contrast between violent and disturbing images.

      • The Arts
        December 2017

        Juan Grimm

        by Claudia Pertuzé, Aniket Bhagwat, Juan Grimm, Mathias Klotz and Mitzi Rojas.

        Juan Grimm stands out for his great domain of nature in all of its sizes. His designs emphasize in a persistent manner, the sublime character of nature, always incorporating his surroundings. Through the mainly use of native flora, Grimm creates startling textures in the scenery. Known as the most relevant landscaper in South America, his work has drew attention for its productivity, having designed and built over one thousand acres of gardens, public and private parks throughout Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay. This publication introduces us to Grimm’s work from its history, narrated by himself, the process of thinking and planning landscaping, his inspirations, artistic purpose, the stories behind each project and their evolution on time. Through drawing and photographs, this volume presents a selection of representative works, from small gardens to big parks that illustrates Grimm’s 30 year trajectory.

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