Obrero
By: Cristian Maturana Ortiz
Contributors: Galería Metropolitana (Santiago, Chile); Chile. Ministerio de la Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Ministerio de la Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Gobierno de Chile; Galeria Metropolitana
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [Santiago de Chile]
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9789564012230
Subjects: Exhibitions; Themes and motives; Artistic Photography; Video art; History; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Obrero.; Obrero. English.
Description: In 1974, dictator Augusto Pinochet banned three words: "Obrero (workman), Compañero (coworker) and Pueblo (people), and later made them disappear from all legislation that contained them. "OBRERO" by artist Cristian Maturana Ortiz (Antofagasta, Chile 1979, lives in Copiaco, Atacama), is an installation that rescues and resituates the figure of the workman through multiple operations: a video presented through a series of vintage televisions, in which the word "Obrero" appears: tattooed on the body of the artist, embroidered on his work romper overall, engraved in a path and written in the desert. Also, the iconic word chiseled in a block of passable cement and a photographic series, which aim to re-inscribe and extend the meaning and presence of the figure of the worker.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition by the same name held in September 2019 at the Galeria Metropolitana in Santiago, Chile.

Exposed stitched binding (Japanese bookbinding).

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Hubo otro tiempo/ Víctor Estivales Sánchez; title: Obrero, pueblo, compañero / Paula Arrieta Gutiérrez; title: Algunos descalces entre el decir "Obrera" y decir "Obrero" hoy / Mariairis Flores; title: Primero el obrero luego el andamio / Elvira Hernández; title: English versión; title: Colofón.