2019 GALERIE VON BARTHA
Installation views, All Tomorrow’s Parties
Solo show, Galerie von Bartha, Basel
January 25 – March 9, 2019
There Are No More Exotic Countries in Latin America, 2018
Fabric, thread and embroidered cotton
12 of 20 curtains, dimensions variable
Studies, 1996 – 2018
Selection of drawings, collages, ink-jet prints, and documentation as photos, slides and video.
Dimensions variable
Un argentino perdido en Chile [An Argentinean Lost in Chile], 2019
Risograph and ink-jet print, edition of 100
Silkscreen printed cover
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Press Release:
Von Bartha, Basel announces an exhibition of new works from the Chilean artist Felipe Mujica, running from January 25 to March 9, 2019. Appropriating its title from a 1967 Velvet Underground song, the exhibition presents three projects which intertwine and complement each other, conceptually, spatially and historically: a selection of recently commissioned curtain-works, a collection of studies made by the artist since 1995, and an artist book in the form of homage to the Argentinean concrete artist Claudio Girola. The show marks the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery.
There Are No More Exotic Countries in Latin America (2018), unites a series of 20 curtains made collectively by a group of volunteers for the exhibition Shout Fire!, curated by Mariangela Mendez-Prenke at Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg, Sweden last Summer. Created as part of an open workshop where individuals of different ages and levels of embroidery expertise (mostly women) worked side by side with the artist, the process became a horizontal and collective learning experience. Over the course of two weeks, textile knowledge and personal histories were exchanged between Mujica and the embroiderers, at moments interrupted by Fika – the traditional Swedish coffee break – whereby the artist witnessed the curtains gently adapt to the context of their production.
The collection of Mujica‘s studies on display at von Bartha represents a selection from a larger body of work by the artist, comprised of drawings, collages, computer drawings/printouts and documentation in the form of color photographs, slides, and video. Preparatory work for Mujica’s final installations, they reveal a process of evolution from mostly 2-D mural pieces towards more objectual, spatial and architectural works – encompassing time spent by the artist working across Santiago and more recently, New York.
The final work, an artist-book titled Un Argentino perdido en Chile [An Argentinean Lost in Chile] (2019), pays homage to the Argentinean artist Claudio Girola, who moved to Chile in the early 1950s and became a teacher at the school of architecture and design within the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso. Divided into three chapters, the book presents the lesser-known aspects of Girola’s sculptural experiments. The text and visual essay serve as a very personal, semi-factual, semi-fictional interpretation of Girola’s history and motivations.
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As a way to activate the exhibition, on Sunday, February 24th, an event called EFECTOS ESPECIALES was organized. A guided tour was followed by Puntitos, a musical performance by San Keller and Tom Hube, which was later followed by a closing informal cocktail with beer, wine, and conversation. As a response to my invitation, Keller proposed to produce an open performance with the only guideline of using a list of titles of works, installations, and exhibitions that I have ever made. Of course, this list is incomplete.
Bisagra
Chimenea
Poniente
Sin Titulo (Ventana)
Figuras Cabezonas
Proyecto de instalación No.3
Isométrico
Malos Amigos*
Puntitos
Space Invaders
Tetris
La Cosa*
Circuitos
Cuando un perro conoce a otro perro
When a Dog Meets Another Dog*
Hey You! Why Me?
Movement
Tilted
Corazón solitario, solitario corazón (boceto)
Corazón solitario, solitario corazón (abundante)
Doors On Wall
Pájaro con dos cabezas
Sin título (mesa)
Sin título (Valdivia)
Wood (boceto)
Wood (imagen encontrada)
Wood (imagen encontrada e intervenida)
Wood (los 80)
Wood (paneles)
Wood (paneles recogidos)
Wood (sombra)
Wood (caja negra)
Wooden Chair (imagen encontrada)
Los 80
Los 80 (Structure Study)
Bird With Two Heads
Block Study
Cable Collage Group
Collage cables
Cables
Esto es para ir mas rápido
Brooklyn Circles
Dripping
El grafiti que nunca hice
Fluo Yellow Black Figures
Fluo Yellow Figures
Fluo Yellow NYC
Graffiti (Orange)
Pixel Dripping
Pixel Ojos
Pixel
Structures And Sound
Dark Snow
Furniture (Orange)
Reward (Yellow)
Orange Table
Sunrise and Fall
Sunrise
Yellow Walls
Mesa Mesa
Radical Haircuts
Joy Of Life (Found Images)
Paul Klee en Bienal de São Paulo (intervención)
Sound Sound Sound*
No State
No State Exhibition*
No State (Guangzhou)
No Dream
Linea de hormigas*
Steel Enamel
Llegar a un lugar y mirar a otro*
Kidnapping a Sculpture*
Hay luz en cada ventana*
Cibernetica e sociedade
Todo esto será tuyo
Un día todo esto será tuyo*
One day this will not be yours*
Ojos de perro azul*
Parque Bustamante
Un puente es un hombre cruzando un puente**
Arquitectura y amistad*
Carla & Runo
La tarde se prolongaba penosamente, en reobes de gris
Sin titulo (para Cuenca)
Arriba como ramas que un mismo viento mueve**
Huecos
Indigo
Shadows Appeared on the Hanging Cloth*
Las universidades desconocidas**
Sombras imaginarias
Sombras imaginarias, vienen por el camino imaginario*
Dedicated To The Bird We Love*
El cuaderno amarillo (el camino amarillo)
Una noche de verdad dentro de una noche de verano
Ya no quedan países exóticos en Latinoamérica***
Ellos ya habían aprendido que todo lo que sueñan puede exisitir***
All Tomorrow’s parties*
Exhibition titles *
Exhibition and drawings titles **
Installation titles ***
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