September 26–30, 2013
Mapocho Station Cultural Centre
Plaza de la Cultura
Santiago, Chile
www.feriachaco.cl
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“Chaco is like you feel, Chaco is contemporary art.”
Chaco: Contemporary Art Fair of Chile is pleased to present the list of galleries that have been selected for the 2013 edition. The Fair will be held between September 26 and 30 featuring 31 galleries from Latin America, United States and Europe, nine Pop_Up Spaces from all over the country, 15 publishing spaces of Art, Architecture and Design, occupying the historic spaces of the Mapocho Station Cultural Centre, the heart of the patrimonial memory of Santiago.
In 2013 Chaco celebrates its fifth edition. During five days, international and national collectors, artists, curators, journalists, universities, students, and amateurs meet to enjoy a unique experience of visual arts and culture.
“In 2013 our focus is on the quality of the exhibitors, the excellence of the programs, the cutting edge of the projects presented. Chaco is a boutique fair where our visitors feel the attention of a personalized service. Leading international and national galleries will be showing more than 500 works of contemporary art, personalities of the international art system will contribute to the conversations with the aim of create a deeper knowledge of values, a consciousness on the practices of collecting, which are for us essentials to establish the new patrimonies that the country is competent to build up for the community. Chile is a new market, an intriguing scenery for visual arts in Latin America and Chaco is the more challenging channel where all these experiences and competencies merge into and take place,” said the Directors of the fair.
Main Section
6mas1 Madrid, ACG: Art Consulting Group Santiago, AFA Santiago, Alba Cabrera Valencia/Spain, Alecrim 50 Lisbon, Ángeles Baños Badajoz/Spain, Animal Santiago, Artespacio Santiago, Aural Alicante/Spain, C-Arte Buenos Aires, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo Santiago, El Caballo Verde Concepción Chile, Espacio Mínimo Madrid, Espacio Valverde Madrid, Fernando Pradilla / El Museo Madrid/Bogotá, Gachi Prieto Buenos Aires, Henrique Faria Fine Art New York, Isabel Aninat Santiago, Isabel Croxatto Santiago, LA SALA Santiago, Lume Sao Paulo, Metales Pesados Visual Santiago, Nes Zona54 Buenos Aires, NueveOchenta Bogotá, Patricia Ready Santiago, Pilar San Paulo, Soa Arte Contemporáneo Montevideo, VALA Santiago, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico, XS Santiago, Yael Rosenblut Santiago
Pop_Up Spaces
Co Galería de Arte, Departamento 44, Espacio Hache, Espora, Mutt Art Dealers, Oficina Barroca, Proyecto Living, Se Vende, Totoral Gallery
Programs
Pop_Up Spaces isan innovative program dedicated to insert into the contemporary art market nine Chilean alternative artistic projects who installed new ways of management and business crossing different specificities as visual arts, music, poetry, illustration, cinema and design.
Conversation Program, curated by Gonzalo Pedraza, actually curator of Matucana 100, is focused on “The collection. Chile?”
Highlights
Aimee Labarrere President, Patrons Contemporary Art, Mexico City / Angeline Scherf Curator, Museé de la Ville, Paris / Carlos Amorales artist, Mexico City / Catalina Bauer artist, Santiago / Cecilia Brunson Co-Founder and Curator, FAMA Foundation, Santiago-London / Carmen Cuenca Director, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City / Elena Nofal Vice President, Asociación Amigos Museo Malba, Buenos Aires / Eungie Joo Director of Art and Cultural Programs Inhotim, Belo Horizonte- Brazil / Juan Pablo Langlois Artist, Santiago / Juan Yarur Collector, Santiago / Justo Pastor Mellado art critic, Santiago / Lowery Sims Curator, MAD Museum, New York / Natalia Majluf Director, Mali Museum, Lima / Osbel Suárez, independent curator, Cuba- Madrid / Osvaldo Sánchez curator, Mexico City / Pedro Montes collector, Santiago / Sharon Lerner Curator, Mali Museum, Lima / Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy Curator, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Miami / Vincent Honoré Curator, David Roberts Foundation and Collection, London.
VIP program is an exclusive itinerary dedicated to a selection of national and international collectors and professional guests. It features visits to private collection, museums, artist studios and galleries, tours on demand, and parties, cocktails and special events.
Chaco will celebrate its fifth edition with a new look designed by the international agency www.basedesign.com and with different campaigns in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr.
Chaco
Founded in 2009, Chaco Art Fair is a platform aimed at the internationalization of Chilean contemporary art and the development and growth of the Chilean art market. In its four years of history, Chaco has brought people closer to contemporary art building up knowledge, curiosity and opportunities in the context of an ever-progressing country.
