2010-2013
oil on canvas or wood. There are approximately 156 paintings in this project everywhere from 4x4 inches to 10 x 10 feet.
The project explores the modes in which art institutions foster the inscription and value of art pieces and their authors. I traveled to document the walls of museums located in the centers of hegemonic artistic and cultural production. From my records, I elaborated paintings that reproduced these museum walls. I wanted to work with the representation of walls as supports and documents of cultural inscriptions where the act of painting these walls was a claim for ownership. At the same time, the act of painting a wall was primitive to the act of painting a painting and the question to answer was; could one replace the other. The need for artistic exposure and inscription made the museum wall the object of desire. The walls of museums became both the symbol of the desire for institutional support and a natural model to explore and use as a metaphor for the expression of institutional support in the elaboration of this project. Three galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago were filled with paintings depicting walls of the MoMA, Castello di Rivoli, el Prado, Reina Sofia, Louvre, Met, Guggenheim, and Tate, among others, and site-specific installations of the project. The off spaces of the museum were intervened with more than 40 paintings of small format depicting signage of those museums competing with the original signage of the exhibiting institution.
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on board
Oil on board
Oil on board