Museum of Contemporary Art in the Vigo–Deisler exhibition

Museum of Contemporary Art collaborates in the Vigo–Deisler exhibition. Long distance comunication

The exhibition can be seen until October 28, at the Matta Cultural Center of the Chilean Embassy in Argentina.

The MATTA Cultural Center of the Chilean Embassy in Argentina inaugurated the Vigo–Deisler exhibition on September 7. Long distance comunication. This exhibition, which can be visited until October 28, reviews the artistic link between the artists Edgardo Antonio Vigo (La Plata, Argentina, 1928 – 1997) and Guillermo Deisler (Santiago, Chile, 1940 – Halle, Germany, 1995). .

Both, leaders of the contemporary scene, produced extensive graphic, conceptual and editorial work, and maintained a network of international contacts through the postal circulation of materials that contributed to the circuit of so-called “mail art.” The artists also exchanged prints, projects and ideas, and above all, they maintained an artistic and intellectual bond for almost three decades.

The exhibition, by Dr. Silvia Dolinko, from the Art and Heritage Research Center, National University of San Martín/CONICET (Argentina) and Pamela Navarro Carreño, Coordinator of the Conservation and Documentation Unit of the Museum of Contemporary Art , features materials these artists produced between the 1960s and 1990s, and includes woodcuts, mail art, editions, and objects.

“In mid-2022, within the framework of my study residency in Buenos Aires (Master in History of Argentine and Latin American Art, EIDAES – UNSAM), Silvia Dolinko, Director of the Master's Degree, proposes that we curate this exhibition based on his work that investigates the epistolary exchange and the relationship between the artistic productions of Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Guillermo Deisler, which would soon be published in the book “Intercambios Trasandinos. Art stories between Argentina and Chile” (UAH Ediciones, 2022), explains Pamela Navarro.

Under a curatorship that dialogues with the recent political contexts of Argentina and Chile, the exhibition brings together a selection of more than one hundred works, documents, editions and objects belonging to the Vigo Experimental Art Center in La Plata. The exhibition also has the collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, and the Visual Arts Documentation Center of the National Center of Contemporary Art (CEDOC/CNAC). An exhibition that also includes pieces from the groups Tercera persona (La Plata), and Písimoservicio (Valparaíso), as well as the work Corpos de papel, created collaboratively between both groups.

"We nominated the project to the Matta Cultural Center of the Chilean Embassy in Argentina, due to the relevance of that space to strengthen and make visible trans-Andean cultural ties, also framed in the commemorations of the 50 years of the coup d'état in Chile and the 40 years of democracy in Argentina. The application was accepted in December 2022. On that same date we presented the project to the director of the MAC, Daniel Cruz, who supported it, both for the exhibition in Buenos Aires and for the screening of the exhibition in Chile. Likewise, the CNAC joined in and we are working on ensuring that the exhibition has a presence in both spaces,” says Pamela Navarro.

Both the careers of Guillermo Deisler and that of Edgardo Antonio Vigo were marked by dictatorships and exile: Deisler and his family had to settle in Europe after the coup d'état in Chile. Vigo and his family suffered the disappearance of his son Abel Luis, “Palomo.” In its connection, the graphic medium was a means and a strategy for distance communication - a term that Vigo preferred to the more well-known "mail art" - and to circumvent dictatorial controls and censorship with postcards, stamp plates, envelopes. and stamps that put political and poetic premises into circulation. The notions of participation and communication defined his trajectories and crossed his intellectual projects.

Vigo–Deisler. Long distance comunication

Place: MATTA Cultural Center Embassy of Chile in Argentina. Tagle corner Avenida del Libertador (entrance through Plaza República de Chile)

Closing: October 28, 2023

Open to the public from Thursday to Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m.

Free entry.