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HOFFMANN’S
HOUSE
Directors: Rodrigo Vergara and Jose Pablo Diaz
Santiago de Chile, Chile
hoffmann@vtr.net
http://www.hoffmannshouse.org
Hoffmann’s house is a cultural experience whose objective
is to produce and ease the conditions of art-work circulation, expecting
to create a space of consistent analysis and debate over the contemporary
art production in Chile. This experience revolving around art is
an effort to suitably disseminate the ideas that have been generated
in the context of the emerging Chilean visual arts, this is done
so, by revising the works of the artists who have been producing
their art quite aloof the commercial circuits in the recent years
It could be said that when we talk about this “cultural experience”
we mean production systems, diffusion, and circulation of contemporary
Chilean art of the 90’s, which is embedded in the local milieu
and lacks the structures to give room to this kind of investigations,
whether it be by financing, promoting or suitably set up this experimental
productions. So from there comes up the idea of setting and deploying
a wooden “basic dwelling “ painted in white, to be a space
for arts. This being the logical movement to question the “Chilean
State” which in its democratic restitution does not yet give
culture the role it has to have and deserve.
Hoffmann’s house is a forum to debate and place part of the
Chilean contemporary production within a clear position of re-installing
itself before the fine arts production of the “Advanced scene”
that in the 70’s gave shape to most of the Chilean visual proposals.
The 18 square meters of this wooden house have proven the condition
in which the emerging art production is. But besides the things
it lacks, its wants and references in an apparently global society,
it goes far beyond the local references.
Hoffmann’s house directors are:
-Rodrigo Vergara Bahamondes. Born in 1974. Visual arist and assistant
professor of the Research Methodology Professor Carlos Navarrete,
of the University of Finis Terrae (Santiago). He holds a PhD in
Arts from the University Finis Terrae, a degree in Photography from
the Catholic University of Chile and a master in Visual Arts from
the University of Chile. He had a solo exhibition at the Bech Gallery
(Santiago, 2002).
-Jose Pablo Diaz Aguirrel born in Santiago in 1975. He lives and
works in Santiago, Chile. He holds a PhD in Arts, a mention in engraving
from the University of Finis Terrae, Santiago.
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