SELECTED WORKS
2022. White lands( Tierras Blancas). Video animation digital. Full HD and stereo sound. Time 3:00 minutes loop.
Collaboration Alvaro Muñoz.
This video simulates a monumental stone sculpture with portrait linkage to Guggenheim Family, who through their multinational companies were the promoters of the large-scale copper and nitrates mining in Chile and worldwide. This artwork uses humor and irony to articulate a critic around the philanthropic figures of the 20th century, who after exploiting the territories of the third world, turned part of their resources to patronage activities in the arts.
2022. Remote Archive. 14 documents printed on metacrilate surfaces, metallic support and metallics figures copper plating. 540 x 67 cms. Collaboration: Archivo Histórico de Coya. www.archivohistorico.cl Ubicación: American camp of Coya Mineral El Teniente CODELCO. Machalí. Chile.
This archive are a series of unpublished communication documents (memos and letters), those reveal the political and economic influences of Guggenheim Brothers Co. with Chilean politic structure and chilean state.
2022. Metadata I. UV map (digital textures), printed on transparent acetate. Dimensions: 67 x 100 cm.
2022. Dome Guggenheim. Sculpture in steel sheets and copper plating. Dimensions 75x 75 x 25 cm. Dome model of S.R. Guggenheim foundation museum building in New York.
2022. Red is the color of creation. Red polychrome wooden sculpture and archival documents printed on transparent acetate. Sculpture dimensions 193 x 150 x 80 cm.
Archival Documents, enlargement and digital Copy of Guggenheim Museum project sketch by F. Lloyd Wright, September 1943 (The museum of modern art Avery Architectural & Fine arts Library, Columbia University, New York); Political Situation, report of the El Teniente Mine plant controller, Sewell, 1931.
2021. White lands II. (HARRY, SALOMON AND PEGGY GUGGENHEIM PORTRAITS), FROM THE NON.MONUMENTS SERIE. Digital render printed on photo rag metallic Hahnemühle 340 g paper. Size 85 x 55 cms.
The Non.monument serie are renders printed on metallic paper and modelated by computer. Those 3d digital models are character sculpture simulation of Guggenheim family linked with art foundations and the copper bussines empire, periode of the industrial colonialism in southamerica in twenty century.
2021. Series NON. MONUMENTS. Digital models rendered and printed on photo rag metallic Hahnemühle 340 g paper.
Computer modeled images simulating ruins of portrait sculptures of Harry Frank, Salomon Robert and Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim.
Peñascazo (2021)
Three screen monitors (55”, 50” and 40”). Full HD video and digital animated model of Los Pelambres mining copper.
Three screen monitors (55”, 50” and 40”). Full HD video and digital animated model of Los Pelambres mining copper.
2021. MAU (El Mauro). Pulished steel structure, copper plates and steel clamps. Size 200 x 100 x 300 cms. Feat Ignacion Helmke.
Featuring Ignacio Helmke.
Modular sculpture that present a serie of empty boxes, that on its copper plates surfaces are etched precolombus petroglyphs missed in El mauro area, devastated by Los pelambres mining company.
Public art collection of Coquimbo council city, Chile.
2021. Peñazco 1 (MLP 1). Copper sculpture of Pelambres mining of Chile. Size 10x 6,5 x 4 cms.
A copper smelted model sculpture of Minera Los Pelambres or MLP is created in order to raise up the imaginary of the most high rated copper mine in southamerica.
2021. Peñazco 2 (MLP 2). Copper sculpture of Pelambres mining of Chile. Size 15x 11 x 6 cms.
A copper smelted model sculpture of Minera Los Pelambres or MLP is created in order to raise up the imaginary of the most high rated copper mine in southamerica.
2021. Peñazco 3 (MLP 3). Copper sculpture of Pelambres mining of Chile. Size 17x 14 x 10 cms.
A copper smelted model sculpture of Minera Los Pelambres or MLP is created in order to raise up the imaginary of the most high rated copper mine in southamerica.
A copper smelted model sculpture of Minera Los Pelambres or MLP is created in order to raise up the imaginary of the most high rated copper mine in southamerica.
2021. ECOSYSTEM (Critical zone). Steel, imanes and electroplating copper texts of public and private institutional organizations. Size 70 x 40 cms.
Conceptual map that exposes the private interests of Los pelambres mining company and its links with the state apparatus, from the archaeological conflict of El Mauro, expanded to social, economic, environmental and patrimonial stages.
2023. Fosil Future ( Staggered hill). Photomerge of five images printed on paper Metallic paper 360g Hannemulle . Size 235 x 65 cms. Serie of 3 copies.
Photograph that records the artificial hill created by industrial mining for decantation of copper sulfates in the north of Chile, whose wide dimensions redefine the natural environment of the pampa in the Atacama desert.
2019. TRANSFERENCES -conical concentrates- .
Video color 4k which registrate stories by Jose Ulloa Perez about growing up in the Caletones company town (Sewell, El Teniente Mineral the largest subterrain mine in the world). Join to his son, Jose Ulloa Acosta , they builts a serie of sculptures in wire copper from a historical file of industrial copper extraction base in Chile (1927).
E.T serie I, II (2019)
Cooper metal;photgraphy and files document of ancient art and architecture.
Fórmula G (2018) Copper Galvanoplastic, NB Butilo, steel wire;
File document (COYA DIBAM Library, Machalí, Chile). Size 70 x0 x 1 cm.
(private collection)
2018. MELTED TOWNS. Series of four objects made of NB Butyl (Rubber); and polished copper tubular structure. Size 450 x 130x 45 cm.
This work is shown as a series of pieces hanging from a structure of tubular copper profiles, on it a serie of bidimensional works made in black butyl rubber which is used to protect the earth from seepage of chemical waste produced in large-scale mining. The cut-out urban grids shown the density of housing in the company towns of Sewell, Chuquicamata, María Elena and Pedro de Valdivia. The gravity deforms the material and deconfigured the grid establishing an analogy with the loss of memory of these sites.
2018. SPECIES ALIEN. Portrait of Harry F. Guggenheim and Salomón R. Guggenheim. Resin, fiberglass and processed nitrate, sequoia pine tree and soil with leaves; Harry Guggenheim Letter to chilean president Carlos Ibañez del Campo 1953. Sizes 3,5 x 0.60x 0.60 mts.
(public collection of Gabriela Mistral gallery)
2019. ARCHEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING. Copper plates cutting on CNC láser (2mm), copper wire, copper pipe. Size 3 x 1,5 mts. 2018
Movil made from archaeological objects from archive and museums found in mining sites of Chuquicamata, El Teniente, María Elena and Pedro de Valdivia. The most important deposits of copper and nitrates in Chile.
2018. THE GUGGENHEIM WERE HERE . Chug-Chug, Geogliph intervention near to Chuquicamata Mine. II Región, Chile.
Pangal, aqueduct building in 1917 for Braden Cooper Co for Teniente Mine. VI Región, Chile. María Elena, intervention in structure industry of nitrate. II Región, Chile. Lasana, intervention on rocks in ancient fortress pucará de Lasana. II Región, Chile.
Photografhy serie between conflict patrimonial areas with mining industry on nitrate and cooper linked with historical Guggenheim brothers company in Chile.
Ink on Hahnemühle paper photografhy. Size
2017. SPECULAR -Big Mirror- . 450 mirror-polished coper plates (2mm), and black rubber support. Dimensions 4,5 x 5,3 mts.
Floor sculpture thats is builded 450 copper pulished plates with the size of a brick, those are distributed on the floor producing an irregular geometric shape that articulates as a reflective surface. Specular is created from a street register (mapping a ruins), from the artistic intervention on public space Invertir la Pirámide.
This work is a milestone for memory that Raw material project is about it.
RAW MATERIAL Project. FONDART (R) 2017
(public collection Gabriela Mistral gallery))
2017. Mapping a Ruin. Metacrilat box and photofraphy Ink on cotton paper 260 g. Size 65 x 50 cm.
Left. View of El Teniente, mine and industrial complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQitIV-khU ;
Centro. Riverse the Pyramid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBHY0uBtEAA ;
Right. Video report 2 (maternal), Reconstitution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrTodJQ87SA.
2017. UNFINISHED STRUCTURE FOR A NO CONCLUSIVE PROCESS.
Copper pipes 1 1/4“ y 3/4”, copper fitting and fixing screw.
(Public and national collections of contemporary art Ministry of cultures Chile)