The event is part of the event program linked to the exhibition Utopia .
Date: Wednesday 28 September
Time: 17:30 PM
Location: Tegnerforbundet
The event is free and open to everyone. The lecture will be in English.
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La Ciudad Abierta (Open City, Chile) located in the dunes in front of the pacific ocean was founded in 1970 by poets, philosophers, artists and architects. It's a community where artistic and architectural experiences reflect a utopia which is constantly evolving.
Each residence at Ciudad Abierta (Hospederias) was built to shelter its architect, its sculptor, its poet or resident of the open city. This community, which is the area of freedom of expression and creation, leads to artworks at the intersection of installations, performances, sculpture, architecture and design suggesting that utopia is running, it is not a mirage, it’s happening.
The presentation at Tegnerforbundet wants to testify through a talk, drawings, photos, and a “Acto poetico”, the audacity of those artworks and this utopic way of living.
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Manuel Florencio Sanfuentes Vio is a poet, graphic designer and editor who initially published the poem «Tierno dolo» in the book Trebolar, Al Fragor 2013. He teaches at the Amereida Workshop at the School of Architecture and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso , where he also works at the Taller de Investigaciones Gráficas and Ediciones e[ad]. Since 1997 he has been part of the Corporación Cultural Amereida and Ciudad Abierta, where he participates in their events and works. He is director of the independent publishing house Al Fragor, based in Viña del Mar and Santiago, with publications of art, poetry and narrative. He rehearses an exercise in words and images tangential to the plastic arts based on the mark and its relationship with the letter and writing;
important works include "El cuaderno del iletrado", presented at the VI Biennial of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago 2008; "Demora imminent de un objeto intangible", exhibited in 2012 at the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso; "Auto da fe", in 2016 at the Sala El Internado in Valparaíso. In 2019 he published his collection of poems "Noli me tangere", illustrated by himself. Recently he was in charge of the Chilean edition of "The Tender Narrator" by Olga Tokarczuk, Al Fragor 2021.
Nicolas Ibaceta Zamora, is an Interdisciplinary Architect, Artist and kayak builder from Los Andes, Chile. Working with art as well as boats he has been internationally active. Since 2015 he has been part of the Corporación Cultural Amereida and Ciudad Abierta, where he participates in their community, exhibitions and works, as Documenta 14 and others. Through his work and collaborations he researches traditional craft as well as modern techniques of making, applying non-traditional techniques in the creation of his work.
Photo/ Copyright: Open City, Chile.
