2019 AN ARGENTINIAN LOST IN CHILE

Un Argentino perdido en Chile – Claudio Girola
100 copies
Design, concept and text by Felipe Mujica
Silkscreen cover printing by Felipe Mujica
Risograph printing and binding by Keegan Cooke, The Circadian Press, Brooklyn NY
January 2019

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Artist book/homage to Claudio Girola, sculptor, and professor of the School of Valparaíso. The publication is structured in 3 chapters. The first one narrates the arrival of Girola to Chile in the early ‘50s, when he was invited to participate, together with 3 other artists, in an exhibition of Argentinian modern art held at an empty hotel next to the ocean (about to open to the public). The 4 artists that took part in the exhibition were part of Arte Concreto Invención and Madí Group in Buenos Aires in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Conceived by the Instituto de Arquitectura the show was planned to happen “looking at the ocean”, in dialogue with the sea. Each chapter contains a text that interprets the images yet the first one has a more narrative tone, combining facts with fiction. The second chapter shows a selection of images of works by Girola in different locations and contexts, taken in a garden, in front of the ocean, in a construction site, in exhibitions. The images focus on the sculpture’s spatial character, in their dialogue with space. Finally, the third chapter shows a selection of images of posters designed by Girola that promote his exhibitions installed in different locations within the university and around the city of Valparaiso.

All images are courtesy of:
Archivo Histórico José Vial Armstrong
Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

Published on the occasion of the exhibition:
All Tomorrow’s Parties
von Bartha, Basel
January 25 – March 9, 2019

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