Richard, Nelly (editor).

[ESCENA DE AVANZADA CHILENA – CHILEAN NEO-AVANT-GARDE] Cinco expresiones de la Figuración en Chile [Five expressions of figuration in Chile]: Juan Dávila, Benjamín Lira, Ricardo Yrarrázaval, Roser Bru, Francisco Smythe. Galería Cromo, Santiago de Chile, Julio-Agosto 1977.

Santiago de Chile: Galería Cromo, 1977. Quarto (32 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers, with black tape to spine and two holes with enforcements, as issued (to allow for housing in ring binder); 24 pp. with a repeating photograph by Jaime Villaseca. Leaf margins slightly toned; else good or better. Item #54644

Catalog of the Cromo Gallery, which was the center of the Chilean avant-garde, the "Escena de avanzada", before the founding of the C.A.L. Gallery. The term was later coined by the French-born writer Nelly Richard, who played an important role in the neo-avant-garde scene in Chile as an essayist, cultural critic, curator and theorist. She curated the exhibitions and edited the catalogs of the Cromo Gallery and later the C.A.L. Gallery. Together with the artists Carlos Leppe (who designed this catalog) and Carlos Altamirano, she formed an influential group that was active from 1977 onwards. She also moved to the C.A.L. gallery with the two artists when the Cromo gallery closed. The catalogs edited by Richard for the Cromo Gallery are recognizable at first glance. They are united by their striking binding, which allowed for gathering the catalogs together in a ring binder. The catalogs are produced with simple means, but they play with the material limitations. The hectographed pages always feature the same image, a group photo showing the 5 artists exhibited and portrayed here in interviews. Juan Davila, who had lived in Australia for several years, was ostentatiously blacked out. In this way, censorship was indirectly addressed. On the front and back of the cover alone, the illustration is repeated four times, with the repetitions giving the impression that they are constantly deteriorating, thus demonstrating the effect of the copy of the copy, etc.

As of September 2024, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €2,500.00

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