This exhibition aims to work and discuss the notion of collaboration. The artists will produce an installation including performance, sculpture, video, paintings and Tazos, an improvisational musical project that Fernández and Mujica have been randomly working on since 1995. The first vinyl compilation by Tazos, “Frota-Frota”, will be released on the occasion of the opening.
Johanna Unzueta works around the idea of costume as sculpture, sculpture as an integral part of the body (or viceversa). As another way to combine and integrate the works, during the performance by Tazos, artists will be
wearing sculptural costume designs by Johanna. Her work will affect the performance and the performance will affect how her work is perceived. This is how “Dispersed Pieces of Something” aims to become an active space where
the references and limits between its parts will become blurry and confused but also fruitful in new interpretations and readings. The idea is that each gesture will loose its personal aura or individuality to become part of a
collaborative way to produce and exhibit.
Having studied art in the same school in Santiago de Chile the three artists share a sociopolitical background and although their practices are different, they live up to a collaborative entrepreneur spirit.
A conversation will be held on the 29th around the role of collaboration between artists, with a slide presentation of Galeria Chilena, an artist run space from Santiago de Chile the three artists have been involved with, and the presence of the local interviewing mind of Arthur Miranda.
Text: by the artists
Johanna Unzueta has exhibited in Galería Chilena, Santiago de Chile; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Chile; Diecke Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile; Matucana 100; Espacio La Rebeca, Bogota, Colombia; Exit Art, New York; Hall Ségur at Unesco Headquarters, Paris; Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York. She has also received the Chilean government Grant Fondart in 1999 and 2004. She participated in the artist in residency program Art Omi in upstate New York in 2001.
Diego Fernández has exhibited in Orchard, New York; Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin and Cologne; Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile; Galería Chilena, Santiago de Chile; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Chile; and soon enough at the “New Talent” section Of Art Cologne 2005. He has also received the Chilean government Grant Fondart in 1998 and 2001. Fernández is also founder of the artist run space Galería Chilena.
Felipe Mujica has exhibited in Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Chile; Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne; Exit Art, New York; Apexart, New York; Espacio La Rebeca, Bogotá, Colombia; Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile; Gasworks Studios, London. He has also participated in the Independent Curators International traveling exhibition “Painting Zero Degree”. He has received the Chilean government Grant Fondart in 1999 and 2004, the Pollock Krasner Grant in 2002 and participated in the artist in residency program Gasworks in London in 2004. Mujica is also founder of the artist run space Galería Chilena.
The three artists are participating in a forthcoming show titled “?” to be held in a still undecided location of the Design District of Miami, in late November 2005.