Copiar el Edén en la Tate Modern Art
	25 January 2008
	“Copying Eden, Recent Art in Chile” will be presented in the Tate Modern of London, on Friday January 25 th , with the participation of the curators and writers, Gerardo Mosquera and Guy Brett, and the artists Lotty Rosenfeld, Eugenio Dittborn and Livia Marin. The publication will be presented during a round-table meeting that will take place the 25 Th of January at 18:30 pm in the Starr Auditorium of the Tate Modern. The curators and writers Gerardo Mosquera and Guy Brett, will analyze the Chilean art production of the last years, from an international point of view. As well as Lotty Rosenfeld, Eugenio Dittborn and Livia Marin will talk about the production and management of Chilean art, based on their personal experience. Such activities are sponsored by the “Ministry of external relationships”, “Chilean Embassy” and “Puro Chile Editions”. This book in 650 pages, with a clear and dynamic design, presents and analyzes the evolution of contemporary art in Chile from 1973 to the present day. It reproduces more than 500 color images of works by 74 artists -selected by Mosquera- including renowned figures such as Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Downey, Arturo Duclos, Alfredo Jaar, Carlos Leppe, Lotty Rosenfeld, and Alicia Villareal, as well others from younger generations, such as Mónica Bengoa, Pablo Ferrer, Ignacio Gumucio, Patrick Hamilton, Livia Marín, and Iván Navarro and others. The artists are presented in alphabetical order with brief introductory texts. Each reproduced work is rigorously documented with a caption that, in addition to providing the technical data, offers the reader a description of the work in case the image did not allow for full comprehension. This is a bilingual edition in English and Spanish that includes essays on numerous aspects of art in Chile and Latin America –with visual documentation- written by six distinguished critics and art scholars (Guillermo Machuca-María Berríos, Justo Pastor Mellado, Catalina Mena, Nelly Richard and Adriana Valdés). It also includes an introduction by the editor that analyzes Chile from an international perspective as well as an appendix that reviews the main texts on Chilean contemporary art written in the last 30 years, together with the most complete bibliography of the period ever compiled. The publication is a reaction to a significant growth of the visual arts in the country, which has given rise to new art schools, new talents, and more exhibition spaces. And yet, despite this, there seems to be an immense lack of information about contemporary art and its history as well as a surprising lack of coverage given its quality and relevance. In addition, this cultural production is sparsely known and analyzed, even in Latin America. This is why Ediciones y Publicaciones Puro Chile seeks to organize and update the history of contempotrary art in the country. As part of the effort to promote Chilean art through this publication, Puro Chile has initiated a distribution campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Relations in order to release the book in museums and universities in London, Madrid, Mexico, Miami, New York, and other cities. The book is on sale in the most important bookstores in Chile among them, Contrapunto, Ulises, Antártica, Metales Pesados, Feria Chilena del libro, José Miguel Carrera, Takk, Qué Leo, librería Universidad Católica Campus Lo Contador, Galeria Animal, www.amazon.com, www.puro-chile.cl Press Contact: Claudia Pertuzé – Javiera Mirelis (562)218 8090 - info@puro-chile.cl, www.puro-chile.cl Biographies: Gerardo Mosquera. Independent art critic and curator, Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, advisor to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and a member of the editorial boards of several international journals. Author of books and numerous essays published in many countries. Founder of the Havana Biennial, he has curated various international exhibitions and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guy Brett. Escritor y curador. Una voz distintiva en la crítica de arte desde los años sesenta. Brett ha seguido un camino independiente en sondear e interpretar el arte contemporáneo. Informado por una perspectiva transnacional y posicionándose más como un observador de mente abierta que un teórico, fue responsable en hacer que la obra de artistas latino americanos fuese accesible a un público más vasto. Ha escrito ensayos elementales sobre actores claves del arte latino americano, y estuvo estrechamente involucrado con “Signals London”, una galería experimental que abrió en Londres a mediados de los años sesenta. Brett es autor de varios libros y ha escrito extensamente para la crítica y prensa de arte. También ha organizado notables exposiciones internacionales entre las que destaca,”Force Fields : Phases of the kinetic” presentada en la galeria Hayward y en el MACBA, en Barcelona año 2000. Eugenio Dittborn. Visual artist, painter and engraver of the Universidad de Chile, during 2005 he recived the National Art Award. His work has accomplished international acknowledgement as well as a remarkable influence on other artists, especially during the 90’s. The extensive range of his work shows his evolution, from video and photographic images of land art, to a unique pictorial genre: the aereopostal painting. The employed media isn’t heavy, because it must be folded and mailed to the place of exhibition. Using multiple techniques, he distributes images that refer to a subordinate social condition. Lotty Rosenfeld. Chilean visual artist lives and works in Chile, at the beginning of her career she was engraver of the Universidad de Chile. Her talent and creativity to experiment and express herself through non traditional medias, has made her to be considered as one of the pioneers of art action in Chile. She has intervened urban spaces, manipulating traffic signs, specifically the white lines that separate the car lanes on the road; by transforming them into + sign. Her work during the eighties has been connected to an important group of artist that devoted themselves to video art. She had an outstanding participation in the last documenta 12 of Kassel. Livia Marin. Chilean visual artist, graduate in fine arts with a mention in sculpture, lives and studies in London. Her work consists mainly in recovering daily life objects and carries out with them a sculptoric process. Her works are based on disposition, what is expressed through exercises of repetition and difference. Press Contact: Claudia Pertuzé – Javiera Mirelis (562)218 8090 - info@puro-chile.cl, www.puro-chile.cl