1995 TALLER PUESTA EN ESCENA
Installation views, Poniente
Solo show, Taller puesta en escena, Alamdea 232, Torre 2, departamento 181, Santiago de Chile
July 14, 1995, from 7-10pm.
Poniente, 1995
Installation, silkscreen prints on self adhesive paper
Dimensions variable
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Taller Puesta en Escena was a workshop created and directed by Eugenio Dittborn. It took place during the first semester of 1996 at the Art School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During the 4 months of the class Dittborn organized a series of exercises around the concept of commissions, which were delivered via Fax and in a conceptual/poetical language that needed to be “decoded”. Another important aspect of the workshop was that every commission had to be realized outside the school and of any university premises. With this Dittborn was, in his own words, pushing the students to work “outside of the maternal uterus.” The final exam consisted that each student had to organize an exhibition space, plan and produce the work, install it, organize an opening, a cocktail, write or commission a text; eventually, self-produce a full exhibition. My project consisted in installing 4 horizontal figures, each one composed of 12 individual silkscreen prints on self-adhesive paper, placed on 4 walls of the space, organizing the figures and the whole apartment symmetrically from its center. Looking towards the West, the figures reflected themselves in each window, and simultaneously they projected themselves into the nocturnal landscape of Downtown Santiago. Each room also had an open window and a low-intensity light bulb installed at a medium height, placed over an electric outlet, each one in the same position in relation to the mural figures and landscape. The geometrical forms inserted themselves into the night, into the city, into the urban landscape, simultaneously local and global.
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