political art
Fernando Bryce at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Fernando Bryce’s series of large drawings «Freedom First» captures the intricate events of the Cold War, the emblematic leaders of the time and the struggle to claim the most disputed word and ideal, freedom. Based on the covers of various magazines founded or supported by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) from its foundation in 1950 in West Berlin until the end of the 1960s, Bryce’s iconic appropriation and re-inscription of historical materials creates a large-scale fragmented geopolitical tableau.
A CONVERSATION WITH CECILIA VICUÑA: ARTISTS FOR DEMOCRACY’S ‘FUTURE ARCHIVE’
Through the research and curatorship of Paulina Varas, this exhibition joins together two institutional spaces to highlight an archive that previously remained unknown. We asked Cecilia Vicuña about this archive, its connection to both spaces, and about the past and present relationship between Chilean art and political struggles.