Friday, October 1, 2010

Ch.ACO 2010



After the long trip to la beautiful casa Lo Matta in Vitacura. I got to CH.ACO. Lets start with the general: I was not so dissatisfied because that is too strong a reaction, it was eh. Neither here nor there, any of excitement was frequently met with a sigh around the corner.
They were there too, of course, commercial galleries that plastered the space with dinky paintings. These rodentia of galleries were accompanied by some big mammals. The notable galleries in Santiago were showing a collections which have gotten pretty strong and internationally renown. Animal, showed their Sala 0, where as its numerical value implicates about to bloom. Included were Gabriel Schkolnick's 3AM series, still warm from the Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda Exhibition. I was really interested in Animal's space just because the artists were surpased the beyond the overall standard of work. Though surprisingly commercial, it was clear in its international standard presentation that this group was a bigger fish in the see. (its only fitting to use zoological refrences when discussing Galeria Animal) I would say that Animal's artists are very grounded and then in method have a cheeky process that is smart and inventive.
-excuse me, I'm just going to sit in the Ch.Aco lounge for a moment and have a coffee.-
After the recharge. Heading to the university spaces where Andres Bello and Universidad Finis Terrae had narrow hallways to show their most notable students. These students aren't dumb, they are mature artists that clearly took the opportunity to be in the fair seriously.
After all of that its time for another coffee.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

Urban Screens

from the serialcosign.com blog:



Urban Screens: The Schematic City in Gaming and Architectural Representation
by Greg J. Smith


"A section is an assemblage of dark spots on a plane. It maps the residual of surgery on an object by a plane of incision." – Jennifer Bloomer, Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi.

Manhattan/Nazca



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How many different ways can you move across a map? Relocate, Reorient, Reposition.


As an interesting link, I watched a documentary on the Nazca Lines.

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To:

story from a job: max

I hope you get some damn good stories to tell from your new job.

Ie: the mailbox at the front of the house reads, 'The Honeyhill Family' but the some of the letters are missing so it actually reads 'Te H neyhill Fa ily.

Zeeee Zeeee. They have a high tech buzzer. A kid answers but you can clearly see the moms silouette in the back of the house.
" Hey kid..blah blah ...is your mom or dad at home?"
"Uhh maybe." to the side " MOOOOOM"
She come from the left. I guess the woman in the back wasn't her after all.
"Hello there ma'am, how are you doing on this fine day?" Its actually like 89 degrees, 100% humidity, your sweaty, you need to pee, haven't had anything to drink for an hour but it was something sweet so your mouth is sticky. sticky.
" fine"
"Well, blah blah blah blah" (your programmed speech)
"No."

Your mouth is still sticky.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

"Basta de llorar, mi amor, seamos felices..."

Transnoche






















photographs by Gabriel schkolnick
with accompanying texts by Pablo Simonetti, Rafael Gumucio, Sergio Paz, Roberto Merino, Carla Guelfenbein, Sergio Parra y Alejandra Costamagna





Quote by Rafael Gumucio 'La Deuda'

Friday, June 25, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

MAVI

Lugar Comun
Project. photograph, film, questionaire, 50 pairs of women, The woman who hires the other and the woman who works for the other.

The questionaire a clipboard set what felt like 90 in off the ground gave me a neck cramp, despite that I kept reading. It was really interesting with questions like ¨What book is on your bedside table?¨ to more prying ones like ¨When did you lose your virginity?¨ ¨How many abortions or miscarriages have you had?¨
I don´t know about everybody else but i´m really interested in the answers not only for creepy comparison purposes but because of how life stories are immediately created in my head after seeing a woman´s answers.

I want to reiterate the first word I use to describe ´Lugar Comun´ and thats project. which means that the socio economic, interpersonal, feminine aspects did not fold in with a particular point of view but rather like an anthropological study mounted on foam-core.


Galeria AFA

santiago- pasaje phillips 16

Beautiful gallery space in downtown Santiago. All photographic work save for the paper mache woman getting head from a goose. Main exhibition by Paloma Villalobos packed a punch in is color but overall left me wanting more. The picture of interesting debris around Berlin compositional tension. The picture taken with the care and standard of an early 1900´s photostudio.
In the KM O wall Javiera Infante explores her fainting in auto-erotic moda d´art. Really well made prints in colors that catch your eye and keep you in a chromagenic sugar high until you see the limp body strewn along the frame.
The office area presented the most interesting work, keeping the goose company of course. Coffeetable height reverse video of blow in the shape of a condor? quetzal? some kind of ´indian´ bird. The other mention is for a duo whose name I must lookup but large scale black&whites of 40´s film noir -ish office with a dig.projection of an exterior space.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

René Combeau

museo de arte contemporaneo´
Exihibition on the mianlevel of the museum in a spiral temporary exhibition space. The pride of highlighting to facets of chilean culture are clear. Documenting the history of chilean theatre, great actors and preformances was important to Combeau as his devocion the dramatic arts over many years is clear. The pictures do go beyond that. The stage pictures have the quality of film stills the electricity of the preformance as if the you, the audience member are completely emersed in the action of the play.
Combeau´s work is now transformed to a collection of ennactments, the costumes and set designs aren´t great but so highly romanticized for me in the 2000´s.

Combeau an expat in chile made started his career talking pictures in of theatrical productions particularly in univercity theaters. His career took off as an ad photographer he kept up doing the theater work and is qouted to have said that it was the only work worth saving.












































exhibition at the national meuseum of contemporary art in santiago

Dia internacional de la Sardana- 16

La Sardana


to the music






Centro Catala, Santiago
with the orfeo

Monday, June 14, 2010

El amor en los tiempos del colera

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"Era todavia demasiado joven para saber que la memoria del corazon elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado."

Friday, February 26, 2010

http://www.123people.com/s/carolina+zamora

"esta cancion nacio a las 2 de la manana..."