Argumento de Memoria y Amnesia
Memoria y amnesia. Sobre la historia reciente del arte en Chile 1976-2006 is a complete and in-depth study of Chilean art at the turn of the century and, mainly, of the period that began with the military coup of 1973. The book addresses how some of the main works, strategies and devices of Chilean art struggle against oblivion in the midst of the political and social oppression of the military dictatorship, and what was the development of that struggle in the artists of the democratic transition of the following years. The tour starts from the cultural violence that followed the coup d?état, to close with a reflection on the possibilities of art at the present time. From the germinal exhibition Delachilenapintura, history (1976) by Eugenio Dittborn in Galería Época, to the generation of artists who were born in the decade featured by Escena de avanzada (Advanced Scene).0