Eugenio Dittborn
©image: El Mercurio, 2009
° 1943
Born in Santiago (CL), lives in Santiago (CL).
Eugenio Dittborn was born in Chile in 1943 (making him a thirty-year old witness of the military coup in 1973), and continues to live and work in his native country; it is inevitable that his work should bear the traces of living through Chile’s many political upheavals - in fact, they have often been the source of inspiration for some of the artist’s greatest works. During the Pinochet dictatorship [1973-1990] Dittborn started developing his strategy of so-called “Airmail Paintings”, sending his paintings [often serially executed on large sheets of Kraft paper] around the world via airmail.
Works
>Eugenio Dittborn, The 15th History of the Human Face (The Children of Breughel), 1993.Installation, paper, ashes, cardboard, silkscreen, 140 x 210 cm.
>Eugenio Dittborn, Vanitas, 2006.Artist Novel, 28 x 18 cm, 1 vol. language: Spanish, publisher: Santiago de Chile, ISBN: .
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: On Taking a Normal Situation and Retranslating it into Overlapping and Multiple Readings of Conditions Past and Present. 19 September 1993 - 28 November 1993.
> Exhibition: The collection II – Winter 2002. 23 November 2002 - 09 February 2003.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: Excavation, Accomodation, Extinction.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.