Exhibition “Carlos Leppe, probably the most stunning day” in Los Vilos

Exhibition “Carlos Leppe, probably the most stunning day” in Los Vilos

• Los Vilos Cultural Nonetheless Lifestyles, Elicura 135. Los Vilos.
  
• Opening: Saturday, October 19 – 12:30 p.m..

Curated by means of the researcher and artwork historian Amalia Move, this exhibition, which might be open to the general public till December 7, 2024, brings in combination a number of 10 performances performed between 1974 and 2001 by means of the artist Carlos Leppe, some of the largest exponents of efficiency in Chile and Latin The us.

After its exhibition in Santiago, it strikes to the Coquimbo area, the place using video artwork, set up and creative practices utilized by the creator, idea from sexual dissidence, can also be liked in an immersive method.

Those audiovisual items, recorded by means of quite a lot of collaborators via other symbol applied sciences, are projected inside helps made by means of the architect Smiljan Radic, which were made with the similar materiality this is utilized in heavy load luggage or circle of relatives circuses. that run throughout the coastal cities of Chile. Within the curator’s phrases, this “proposal lets in the viewer to go into a frame – Leppe’s frame – to are aware of it and really feel it, making us mindful on the similar time of our corporality.”

This exhibition is the results of an investigation into Carlos Leppe’s physically movements by means of Amalia Move and Vania Sir Bernard Law and commissioned by means of D21 Artwork Tasks.

Concerning the artist

Carlos Leppe (Santiago, 1952-2015) used to be a distinguished Chilean artist, member of the so-called “Complex Scene”, pioneer in efficiency and set up artwork. His first frame motion, the Taking place of the Hens, used to be carried out in 1974 on the Carmen Waugh gallery. Since then, and within the context of the civil-military dictatorship, Leppe advanced his paintings in Chile and out of the country, taking part in essential exhibitions and biennials. On the finish of the eighties he moved clear of artwork to devote himself to promoting and tv, highlighting his paintings as an artwork director in tv collection produced by means of the channels TVN and Canal 13. In 1998 he reappeared at the scene with the person exhibition Cegado por el gold on the Tomás Andreu Gallery and in 2000 he carried out certainly one of his ultimate performances, titled Los Zapatos, on the Nationwide Museum of Wonderful Arts. His works are a part of essential collections and museums in Chile and the sector.

Concerning the curator

Amalia Move Gantes (Viña del Mar, 1989) is an artwork historian, researcher and curator. Their tasks revolve round analysis paintings in museums, collections and archives, tasks which might be materialized via writing tales, enhancing books and keeping exhibitions. Since 2016 she has been a professor on the Artwork Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, the place she teaches inventive techniques of drawing near artwork historical past.