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La madre fotografía
2002In this essay, Rita Ferrer discusses photography based on an international critique of several periods. She refers to authors such as Roland Barthes, Charles Baudelaire, and the Chilean artist Carlos Leppe, claiming that they all share a “ [...]ICAA Record ID: 773582 -
Escena de Avanzada
1997Justo Pastor Mellado discusses the Escena de Avanzada twenty years after Nelly Richard coined the term. Though it originally had militant undertones, the term evolved into a historical category. It applied to a set of texts and artworks that Richard [...]ICAA Record ID: 756828 -
Destrucción, reconstrucción y desconstrucciones
1987In “Destrucción, reconstrucción y desconstrucciones” (Destruction, Reconstruction, and Deconstructions), Nelly Richard critically reviews the cultural situation in Chile during the military dictatorship (1973–90). It was, in her [...]ICAA Record ID: 754460 -
Artes visuales : una mirada crítica
1987In this article Milan Ivelic discusses conditions in Chile for the benefit of Spanish visitors to the exhibition Chile Vive that was held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. One of the main things that stands out about Chile, as seen [...]ICAA Record ID: 754428 -
La escena: infierno grande
2001This text is part of El gran solipsismo, Juan Luis Martínez. Obra visual (Santiago: Editorial Puntángeles, 2002), the collection of essays written by the researcher José de Nordenflycht. The author considers the work in question [...]ICAA Record ID: 751609 -
Contra el pensamiento-teorema: Una defensa del video arte en Chile
1986In this article, which appeared in the sixth catalogue for the Festival Franco-Chileno de Video Arte (1986), Nelly Richard discusses how video was used for artistic purposes in Chile. From a theoretical standpoint, she explores the experimental use [...]ICAA Record ID: 748696 -
Arte en Chile de veinte, treinta años
1999In this article Pablo Oyarzún provides a critical review of the art produced over the course of three decades. He notes the lack of a tradition that could bear witness to and interpret art production in Chile. From the early twentieth century& [...]ICAA Record ID: 745095 -
The rhetoric of the body=Las retóricas del cuerpo
1986Nelly Richard discusses the use of the human body as a support for a work of art. She refers to two art actions beginning in 1975. One of them was El perchero by Carlos Leppe; in the other, Raúl Zurita burned his face, photographed it, and [...]ICAA Record ID: 744815 -
Crítica; historia. Sobre el libro Márgenes e Instituciones de Nelly Richard
1987This is Pablo Oyarzún’s critical review of Nelly Richard’s book Márgenes e Instituciones (Margins and Institutions). He acknowledges her role in the field of Chilean art and her contributions to a new approach to art [...]ICAA Record ID: 741255 -
Historias de transferencia y densidad en el campo plástico chileno (1973-2000)
2000The theorist Justo Pastor Mellado outlines his curatorial approach for the exhibition 1973–2000: Transferencia y densidad. He begins by defining concepts such as “curator,” discussing the term’s evolution in Chile and its [...]ICAA Record ID: 740449 -
La escena de avanzada : el cuerpo de la desdicha
1988Inspired by the Escena de Avanzada, Fernando Balcells reflects on the concepts of “avant-garde” and “history and art.” This text was written in 1988, almost a decade after those art and experimental practices first emerged and [...]ICAA Record ID: 738184 -
Una historia de miedo
1990This article by Adriana Valdés is a continuation of “Escritura y silenciamiento” (Writing and Silencing) published in 1977 in Revista Mensaje, a text that would have been unthinkable at the height of the repression and censorship [...]ICAA Record ID: 736114 -
Apuntes para una década (1980-1990)
1990In this brief essay Gaspar Galaz discusses a series of landmark events that took place in the 1980s and 1990s. In his opinion this period was characterized by an economic boom in Chile (fueled by neoliberal policies) and by conceptual approaches to [...]ICAA Record ID: 736102 -
Sobre arte y política(s) : contraoficialidad, poder y lenguajes
1989In her essay “Sobre arte y política(s): contraoficialidad, poder y lenguajes,” written for the exhibition catalogue Cirugía plástica (Plastic Surgery), Nelly Richard reflects on the socio-political and [...]ICAA Record ID: 736073 -
Un caso de producción de identidad artística
1995Justo Pastor Mellado discusses the evolution of Chilean painting, from its roots to the 1980s. He divides his essay into six sections that explore the field’s history, from José Gil de Castro to the early twentieth century, remembering [...]ICAA Record ID: 736039 -
Chile en la XII Bienal de París
1983In her essay Chile en la XII Bienal de París (Chile at the Twelfth Paris Biennial), Nelly Richard compares the history of Latin American art to the history of art (in its most visible European and North American versions) on the occasion of [...]ICAA Record ID: 734895 -
Carlos Leppe : nota sobre la obra de Leppe : el juego de lo citado y de lo citante
1985Nelly Richard addresses three different points in her review of Carlos Leppe’s work. She begins by noting his embrace of international art referents, highlighting his exclusion on the grounds of “being Latin American.” In her [...]ICAA Record ID: 734807 -
Todo fuera de contexto : todo fuera de contexto es el efecto de una cita
1985Unable to refer specifically to the works that would be shown at the exhibition about which he was attempting to write, Pablo Oyarzún, the Chilean essayist and an authority on philosophy, discusses the idea involved in the term “context& [...]ICAA Record ID: 734699 -
Intertexto
1985This text by Nelly Richard is based on a collection of quotes, which trace an argumentative arc that express her ideas about the exhibition she is reviewing. She also discusses certain situations in the art field at the time that show how the first [...]ICAA Record ID: 734686 -
Inversión de escena
1983In this text the cultural critic Nelly Richard poses two questions: What strategy is being used? And what is the policy as regards to a cultural approach? Richard’s questions inform her analysis of the ideas underpinning the Provincia señ [...]ICAA Record ID: 731376 -
El arte en Chile : una historia que se recita, otra que se construye
1979In the document El arte en Chile: una historia que se recita, otra que se construye (Art in Chile: One Historical Account That Is Recited, Another That Is Constructed), Nelly Richard discusses the historical skullduggery involved in that particular [...]ICAA Record ID: 730164 -
Retroactivaciones de un proceso
1983In this essay Nelly Richard addresses the new approach to painting taken by some artists in response to what she referred to as the Escena de Avanzada. In her review of the BENMAYOR/DIAZ/DITTBORN/DUCLOS/LEPPE exhibition, Richard discusses the [...]ICAA Record ID: 730159 -
Una mirada sobre el arte en Chile
1981In a series of eight notes, Nelly Richard discusses Chilean artworks and the artists who produced them during the late 1970s. Her use of “notes” indicates that she does not intend to present a uniform view of cultural projects or an all- [...]ICAA Record ID: 730121