El neón es miseria
By: Gonzalo Díaz
Series: Ediciones de la Cortina de Humo -- 20; Ediciones de la Cortina de Humo (Series) -- 20.
Publisher: Ograma Impresores
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Providencia, Santiago de Chile]
Language: spa
Subjects: Catalogs; Neon signs; Installations (Art)
Description: "The Neon's misery" is a project of Gonzalo Díaz (b. Chile 1947) of an intervention into public space by installing a phrase typeset in neon, in the facades of the art galleries D21 and Metropolitana located in the districts of Providence and Pedro Aguirre Cerda, in Santiago (Chile). The project was initiated in May of 2012 with the installation of neon light signs. Twelve lighted signs with different phrases were changed over a year. The present catalog documents each of the transformations in both galleries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: El neón es miseria, el neón es delirio / Gonzalo Arqueros; title: Síntesis / Federico Galende; title: Del dolor contenido en la profunda superficie de lo cotidiano / Sergio Rojas; title: El neón es historia / José de Nordenflycht Concha; title: Entrevistas en calle / Katherine Lincopil, Matías Allende; title: El neón es ...; title: Entrevistas seleccionadas; title: Calendarización de los cambios en las piezas de neón.