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Extemporanea artist book 2025. Italy-Chile.
As part of the Erosion Mechanics project, which investigates the relationship between contemporary art and the lithic industry through a series of procedural and visual exercises, these explorations are developed through fieldwork-based dialogue between the sculptural and documentary heritage of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) and the travertine extraction zone of delle Acque Albule in Italy. All of this is framed within a theoretical context that brings together media theory, new materialism, and posthumanism.
About the artist’s book
Extemporanea is an expanded essay that explores material and symbolic transfers between the territories of Italy and Chile, linking the quarries of Guidonia with the sculptural collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Conceived by artist Jose Ulloa Acosta from his situated experience in the stone quarries—through fieldwork, photographic, audiovisual, and graphic documentation, as well as an in-situ artistic intervention—the publication enters into dialogue with texts by curator Claudio Guerrero Urquiza, and is articulated around the figure of Galvarino, a Mapuche warrior who confronted the conquistadors in the sixteenth century and was later represented in marble at the end of the nineteenth century by sculptor José Miguel Blanco.
The book presents multiple modes of writing—historical, curatorial, poetic, fictional, essayistic, and theoretical—organized according to the stratigraphic logic of geology. These writings are accompanied by a hybridization of materials, records, formats, and supports: fragments of real and fictional quotations coexist with geographical coordinates, diagrams, photographs, and historical references, alongside copies produced with contemporary technologies. All these layers operate in superposition, evoking matter in its constant plurality and transformation.
About the artist’s book
Extemporanea is an expanded essay that explores material and symbolic transfers between the territories of Italy and Chile, linking the quarries of Guidonia with the sculptural collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Conceived by artist Jose Ulloa Acosta from his situated experience in the stone quarries—through fieldwork, photographic, audiovisual, and graphic documentation, as well as an in-situ artistic intervention—the publication enters into dialogue with texts by curator Claudio Guerrero Urquiza, and is articulated around the figure of Galvarino, a Mapuche warrior who confronted the conquistadors in the sixteenth century and was later represented in marble at the end of the nineteenth century by sculptor José Miguel Blanco.
The book presents multiple modes of writing—historical, curatorial, poetic, fictional, essayistic, and theoretical—organized according to the stratigraphic logic of geology. These writings are accompanied by a hybridization of materials, records, formats, and supports: fragments of real and fictional quotations coexist with geographical coordinates, diagrams, photographs, and historical references, alongside copies produced with contemporary technologies. All these layers operate in superposition, evoking matter in its constant plurality and transformation.