This evening at 7 p.m., the exhibition Guillermo Núñez & la Escena de Avanzada opens at the Galería Memoria (Calle de Piamonte, 19), a revisionary capsule of the conceptual work of Guillermo Núñez (Santiago de Chile, 1930), his first appearance in Europe in the last 40 years.
Núñez, one of Latin America’s key artists, winner of Chile’s National Prize in 2007, vindicates his conceptual strategies from the late 1960s with his screen-printing project Poster Shop, reviewing the exhibition Printuras y Exculturas that cost the artist torture and subsequent exile in 1975, to his artistic actions carried out since his French exile where he would remain until 1986.
Guillermo Núñez, historiographically considered to date as an artist alien to the Chilean Advanced Scene and reviewed mainly from his purely pictorial side, displays in this project all his conceptual and semantic force that influenced many artists of coming generations such as Eugenio Dittborn, Carlos Leppe or the CADA group in Chile, as well as simultaneous artistic movements in Europe such as Art Povera and the international Fluxus movement.
