Generation from the 1980s enters Chile’s National Museum of Fine Arts with “La ruta trasnochada”

The National Museum of Fine Arts (south section, first floor) is set to showcase “La Ruta Trasnochada” – December 3 to March 15, 2014 – which, through the works of three painters from the 1980 decade: Jorge (Coco) González, Carlos Araya (Carlanga) and Mauro Jofré, tackles a generation marked by the dictatorship.

This is a dynamic and existential exhibition that puts together paintings created between 1986 and 2013, archive material, a display with works of 100 painters that makes emphasis on the generation notion that initially gathers them.

With this proposal, the MNBA pays tribute to the centenary of the so called Generación del 13, by setting a crossing between this proposal of contemporary painting and works from its collection.

“La Ruta Trasnochada” is an emotive, historic and generational review of a shortly studied chapter of Chilean art that began during the dictatorship, within Chile’s School of Arts, with the spirit of a desperate party in the middle of a convulsed city, and gets diluted in the context of postmodernism and free market under the shadow of failure or the lack of recognition.

The display is based on three main ideas: a “retrospective of half a career” by Jorge (Coco) González Lohse, Carlos Araya (Carlanga) and Mauro Jofré, artists that developed their career from the 1980s movement and organized this project; a homage to the Generación del 13, which includes works of Pedro Luna, Arturo Gordon and Pablo Burchard, among others; and a “historic-emotional” recompilation from 1986 to date, with works created by 100 guest painters, publications, pictures, audiovisual record, documentaries and archive material, as well as workshops and musical projects.

Source: Press release