Last Week of Lotty Rosenfeld. Por una poetica de la rebeldia at CAAC

The Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art has been exhibiting (March 8 – July 21) the Chilean artist’s show Lotty Rosenfeld. Por una poetica de la rebeldia (For a poetics of rebelliousness).

In late 1970, Chile was suffering a military dictatorship. This context gave Lotty Rosenfeld (Santiago de Chile, 1943) tons of ideas to create an art style that could go beyond her repressive reality. When dealing with the complexity of the daily life in her country without reproducing it, Rosenfeld leads her public to that opposition she feels when it comes to all those situations that violate human rights, whether they are ruled by cruel generals or determined by maneuvers, usually impossible to be detected, of a market economy.

Performance, the art based on the media, photography and installations in public and private spaces are presently common elements in the world of art. But in the 1970 decade, when Rosenfeld started her artistic career, these media were being developed step by step. Just like many artists whose career kicked off in the 1970s, Rosenfeld was influenced by conceptual art, Fluxus and the legacy of Dadaism. She was an active member of CADA, a multidisciplinary group of artists and writers (Diamela Eltit, Raul Zurita, Juan Castillo and Fernando Balcells) committed to the critic reflection and activism in terms of art and politics –an urgent matter, because of the ruling dictatorship in Chile.

Por una poetica de la rebeldia shows works created between 1979 and 2013, along with a new version of Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento. Therefore, this exhibit carpets over 30 years of rigorous artistic practice and explores the way art and social perspectives can create contexts in which art and aesthetics join aside from the traditional canon.