Curator: Maria Elena Retamal
Meeting As part of the Visual Arts N200.
M. Elena Retamal Ruiz.
Ernest Gellner. Nations and Nationalism-1983
A the characteristics of the arts in general is their ability to reinterpret the reality through the production of images that give meaning to the life of a social group. The creation of representational images of the nation is then, in the symbolic body that structures, organizes and unifies social order. That is why, once consolidated
To achieve this purpose, two fundamental facts: an Inauguration
s ENAL " three operations made it possible to restore elites and again, with each change of modernization, aristocratic conception: to ) spiritualize cultural production under the guise of "creation" of art, with the resulting division between art and crafts; b) freezing circulation of symbolic goods in collections, concentrating them in museums, palaces and other exclusive facilities; c) propose as the only legitimate form of consumption of goods that also spiritualized hieratic mode of reception is to contemplate " .
Three major issues will be addressed in order to legitimize the national imagination: the symbols (national heroes and deeds), landscape (National constant, according to the historiography art) and the portrait (as part of preservation strategies and social display.)
Now, facing the art scene that confronts us
Pues bien, en torno a nuevas escenas críticas de reflexión, como N200, que establecen proyectos alternativos respecto de
Uno, las obras seleccionadas , se proponen como un artistic political argument against the Bicentennial look, as under a non-political context (as that seems to roam around the exhibition of the celebrations argument) is interesting to propose "the political in art, from which establishes a joint "internal" to reflect critically on the social environment from the organization of meanings, from the rhetoric of the media and the establishment of their own mounts symbolic [1] Two
, Stress some imaginary concepts related to national identity, since identity understood as a social construct unstable, it can interfere through new practices and customs have come from the inclusion of other cultural devices.
Three If in the nineteenth century, rhetoric was articulated country from issues such as national symbols, landscape and portrait in the arguments XXI will be other issues coming from new problems that will shake our own events, it establishes three displaced from the three thematic first:
[1] See Oyarzun, Pablo, other editors. Art and politics. Universidad Arcis, Santiago, Chile, 2005.p 16
Edition video: Felipe Miranda