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E
ugenio Dittborn's first solo exhibition in Spain, which can be visited at Es Baluard until June 15th, is focused on a selection of works that lie somewhere between painting and a letter. It is hard to believe that the work of this Chilean artist, who can be considered a key figure in Latin American conceptual art, has not been exhibited before in Spain. However, the transportation of his works presents certain logistical complications when analysed from the conventions and methods typical of the institution.
The exhibition presents a selection of Dittborn's important airmail paintings, a body of work that was made to tell stories related to displacement, home and otherness from de-colonial perspectives. At times, these paintings tell their own stories, becoming self-referential devices, as is the case when they feature the image of the stacked envelopes in which they are sent.
It was during the dictatorship in Chile that Dittborn began working on his airmail paintings. These two-dimensional works are carefully folded and placed inside an envelope and then sent by airmail to someone outside of the country. Despite their medium size, these envelopes, always displayed alongside the unfolded paintings, are containers of vast conceptual and geographical space.
