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 Piñera, 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
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