Saturday, October 27, 2012

POST 8: The friendship for me


The friendship is some invaluable for any person. Meet a people and, with the time, to say “he is my friend”, is a process natural and complex (well, I think that). For me a friend must be a person with qualities obvious and not so strange, some characteristics like: be nice, interesting, polite, faithful and funny. And one special conditions, but is some I think since few years, is “respect the spaces”, that is to say, don’t invade my personal space (and especially not demand time).
 I make friends easily, because I hate silence, then I start to speak a lot about anything. Is for this same reason that I haven’t friends for internet; I need the conversation, the relation “face to face”. Well, I have a few friends in different parts of the world (Paris, Valencia, Buenos Aires or Berlin), then I need the internet to speak with they.  
I have a lot of friends, of diverse places and that I meet in different moments of my life. But my closest friends are three or four person. Of my high school friends I can say Javier and Ricardo, two amazing people; they are faithful, kind, very intelligent and funny. I know there since seventh grade of primary, and we continue being friends, but I don’t see all time that I wish. Recently, of my university friends the girls are more (in my career) and they are fantastic. Two girls fundamental for me in this moment are Kati and Carol, the first one is my partner of class and work together in all in the career, and also we are very confidential friends; and Carol, is my mentor (because she was my “helper”) and artistic partner, is the person more similar to me (intellectually taking), we dream work, study and live together.
Well, they are some of my friends, lovely persons.   

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

POST 7: A little green gesture

The problem about environment is a big theme in our time. Some eco-organisations or green groups, installed the problem in the mind of everyone. Now, since childhood in the schools, is teached to kids about the career of the planet, with mini- campaign of preservation of native's nature or fauna. The most important revolution about the theme, raisin in the promise that mean the news generations.
In our country, especifically in my neighborhood, exist a campaign in recycled. We put garbage together, but only things that we know can be recycling. And a special truck- trash comes once in the week, for take this garbage. Is money for the neighborhood, and less trash decomposing.

I have never participeted in an eco- organisation, but I try to pollute less with little step. I ever prefer to ride in my bike, por example for come to the university. When I go far, is better take the bus, and not the car. Well the car is a good option, when is full, and the trip is near to Santiago. I see now, how our city is more friendly with bikers and in every part of Santiago is building bike- road, that is fantastic.
But now, the biggest problem with the pollution in Santiago to come from fabrics and airport. About the second guilty we can do few things, because is a problem where stay. However, is our responsability to demand that fabrics reduce its carbon footprint, because the health problems in the winter are cause because of its residue in the air.   

I want see more initiatives for get better our enviroment.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

POST 6: My life with books

I have read books in my entire life. My father is editor of books of literature, education, poetry and essays. For there, the books have been present since my child. When I was a child, my mother said us (me and my sister) what we must read every morning before the school, with the time I started to love the literature, specially the mistery's novel. And the habit to remain in my life. Inclusive, I readed others independently of obligatory's books of the school (I prefer my interest).

For my career I must read books of kinds diverses, for example essays of aesthetic or history of arts. I never leave to read. One of my favourite writers is Antonio Tabuchi, and his famous novel "Sostiene Pereira", is amazing. The character of Pereira is a complex old man, widow and with an awful job. He is a periodist who can't write of politic because the dictatorship of Salazar. In this context, he know a couple of young working in the resistence against goverment. I recommend absolutely this book, and if you love Portugal (like me), is compulsory.

Well, is obvious that I love read books. The time I take for read depend of which kind of books, the novel is longer and essays is shorter (for school issue). Recently I read a book of Eza D'Queiros, and the plot is about a priest falling in love of a girl, the name of the novel is "El crimen del Padre Amaro. And is absolutely recommend too.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

POST 5: Ch.Aco, an irregular Art Fair

Ch.Aco, the Chilean contemporary art fair, is one of the most important event of visual art in our country, we check that for many press was covering the event (national and international, like santiagotimes.cl). We can think what Ch.Aco is the great artistic event in the year, maybe that is true, in a country without bienal or trienal organized for the government. In the article of santiagotimes.cl don't tell us about the awful true in the artistic scene in Chile. 
The Trienal of Chile was an unique opportunity in our country. We had an event with curatorial's freedom. An art fair (independently of its intentions) is subordinate of economy. But, with the government of  PiƱera, that was changed, removing trienal and supporting ch.aco. 
Now, ch.aco is an event for sell piece of art, and besides, had conferences and "launch" of books. Is with this events where stayed the irregularity. Like say santiagotimes.cl in the fair we saw international's gallery and the piece of Artur Fidalgo gallery's was definitively the best. The work of Fernando de La Rocque is a simple and funny big orgy in the walls of that space, the visitors had chance of take part in the piece with pens of diverse colour. The orgy was covered with "tags" and graffiti, a strategy very close with the street art. But, the rest of the fair was a disaster, the galleries clearly don't show us the best of its collections, and one or two pieces more, in general, the level was very low.
However, the books in ch.aco was very amazing. The new titles of Constructo's editors, one of the most important office of studies in architecture in our country, is very cool and pretty, the books is a "jewel" and the investigations are very awesome.
Because of that I think ch.aco is an event very irregular, with peaks very high and others so so low.

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/culture/arts/25211-chilean-contemporary-art-fair-opens-in-santiago