Nicolás Franco
Subtitle: obras = works, 2013-2017
By: editado por = edited by Nicolás Franco ; autores = authors, Eugenio Dittborn [and six others]
Contributors: Franco Guzmán, Nicolás, 1973-; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile); Museo de Artes Visuales (Santiago, Chile); Centro Cultural de España (Santiago, Chile); Galería MACCHINA (Chile); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima, Peru)
Publisher: Gobierno de Chile, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chile]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9789563938142
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art); Video art
Other titles: Nicolás Franco :; Nicolás Franco.; Nicolás Franco. English.
Description: Retrospective of 5 year of artistic production by Nicolás Franco (Chile, 1973) and his vocabulary of photography and painting and its perception. His large scale paintings an assamblages focus, ultimately, on the very process of their creation. Franco rarely captures the images we see in his work. Rather, his procedure is to process and reuse visual objects and printed material, driven by some archivistœs obsession whosepurpose is not obvious.This visual material usually makes some obligue allusion to recognizable cultural, economic, geopolitical and technical processes that marked the course of the twentieth century. These traces are reproduced in Francoœs work from a dispoassionate perspectiva thar oscillates between formalism and conceptualism, forming a material structure where the movement of memory is wrapped by the agencies of the unconscious. As in his previous exhibitions, Nicolás Franco evokes situations distant in time and space: African art, eroticism, colonialism, installation strategies and abstractions, all of which can be gleaned from this set of works that suspend their formal definition and blur the boundaries between photography, painting and sculpture. His work has been exhibited in twelve Museum Solo Exhibitionssuch as the Contemporary Art Museum of Lima; the Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago; National Fine Arts Museum of Santiago; Visual Arts Museum of Santiago; the Barro Museum of Asuncion, and the Blanes Museum of Montevideo. He has participated in group shows in the United States, Latin America and Europe, at venues such as the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; MEIAC Museo Extremeño Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; La Conservera, Ceutí; Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Poland; CorpArtes Foundation, Santiago; Wallspace Gallery, New York and De Ateliers, Amsterdam. "This monograph details a number of projects carried out between 2013 and 2017 that involved reproductions of photographs and the transfer of images from one medium to another. These images could be considered in some sense documentary, either because they actually came from archival sources or because they were tracked down in books, films or periodicals where they once served some practical or artistic purpose, attenuated now by the procedures used to restore them."-Page [9]
Notes: "This book was published on the occasion of the following exhibitions: "Primeras letras" solo exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima 08.08-22.10.17 ; "Ciudad de las mujeres" solo exhibition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago (Chile), 14.01 -23.03.17 ; "Resonancia performed - Aesthetic strategies under repressive systems in Latin America" group exhibition, Migros Museum für Gagenwarttskunst, Zurich, 21.11,2015-16.01.2016 ; "La imagen y su doble" solo exhibition, Galeria Macchina, Santiago (Chile), 7.05-03.06.2015 ; "Tiera sin pan" solo exhibition, CCE Santiago, 6.08-02.09.2015 ; "Cortado en pedazos" solo exhibition, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago (Chile), 18.03-16.06.14 ; "Circo" solo exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago (Chile), 25.02.2014-18.01.2015" --Verso Title Page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266).

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Sedimentos de archivo. Lo público y lo privado en la obra de Nicolás Franco = Las imágenes de segunda mano de Nicolás Franco = The Second-hand images of Nicolás Franco / Paz López; title: Algo temible viene en camino: Neo simbolismo en el trabajo de Nicolás Franco = Something feathful this way comes: The Neo-Symbolist art of Nicolas Franco / Christian Viveros-Fauné; title: Desmaterialización y materialización = Dematerialization and Materialization / Francisco M. Zárate; title: Eclipse / Eugenio Dittborn; title: Una tarde en el futuro = A late evening in the future / Nicolás Franco; title: Variaciones y reversos de la visualidad documental. Obra reciente de Nicolás Franco = Variations and reverses of documentary visuality. Recent work by Nicolás Franco / Ana Maria Risco; title: Explorando la "Memoria Colectiva" a través de material fotográfico impreso y video = Exploring "Collective Memory" through photographic printed matter and video / Heike Munder & Nicolás Franco; title: Onlooker: la imagen y su doble. Stills de producción = The image and its double. Production stills / Nicolás Franco.