Friday 25 January 2008, 18.30–20.00

Art produced inside, outside and after the constraints of dictatorship is examined in the research that culminated in the publication Copying Eden: Recent Art from Chile edited by curator Gerardo Mosquera.

The author presents an overview of thirty years of art production in Chile, followed by presentations by two prominent Chilean artists and curator and writer Guy Brett. Lotty Rosenfeld, discusses her work in the context of dictatorship, including her public interventions in the streets of Santiago during the Pinochet régime. London-based Livia Marin, examines the effects of the global market and the end of the era of political tragedy as a backdrop for the work of younger artists in Chile.The event also includes the unveiling of a new airmail painting sent from Chile by Eugenio Dittborn and introduced by Guy Brett. He presents the concept of the 'airmail paintings', a series of works started in the early 1980s which are made to be sent by post, and introduces the work made specifically for the event.

 

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions), booking recommended