Richard, Nelly (author) and Carlos Leppe (artist and author of an epilogue) as well as Catalina Arroyo (epilogue).

[ESCENA DE AVANZADA CHILENA – CHILEAN NEO-AVANT-GARDE – PHOTOBOOK – PERFORMANCE ART] Cuerpo correccional [correctional facility].

Santiago de Chile: Edición Francisco Zegers — V.I.S.U.A.L., 1980. Quarto (26.7 × 18.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 113, [11] pp. With numerous, partly full-page photographic reproductions, printed on art paper and a few pages on glassine. Very good. Item #54671

First edition of the richly illustrated publication, important for the self-image of the “Escena de Avanzada.” It was published on the occasion of a retrospective by Carlos Leppe in the Galería Sur in Santiago de Chile in November 1980. The elaborately produced monograph is the result of the joint work of Carlos Leppe, Nelly Richard, and Carlos Altamirano. The book is divided into four parts. Richard wrote the first two parts, in which she sets out her theoretical foundations, before finally examining six per­formances by Leppe in detail: “Happening of the Hens” (1974), “The Coat Rack” (1975), “Gertrude Stein” (1976), “Reconstitution of a Scene” (1977), “StarAction” (1979), and “Waiting Room” (1980). The third part is a printed text of the script read aloud by Leppe’s mother, Aurelia Arroyo, during the projection of a video of the performance “Waiting Room”; and the fourth part is a future epitaph on the death of Aurelia Arroyo, written by her son, Carlos Leppe.

At first Carlos Leppe was a student of Eugenio Dittborn, Carlos Altamirano, and Nelly Richard, but then became one of their most outstanding colleagues. After early sculptural works, he turned to performance, influenced by Dadaism, Happening, and Fluxus. While Leppe initially worked with simple materials such as wood and stones (Arte Povera), he now began to use his own heavy body as a material. He not only used his body as a printing matrix or experimented with different social, aesthetic and gender norms by means of clothing, gestures, and contexts, but also had himself completely plastered, for example. Leppe is considered one of the most influential artists of Latin American action art. (Cf. Michael Nungesser, AKL XXVIII, 2001, p. 18.).

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