Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Victor Hugo Bravo is a Chilean artist, part of a generation that was formed under dictatorship. Beg...
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Victor Hugo Bravo is a Chilean artist, part of a generation that was formed under dictatorship.
Beginning by the 90, his initial interest has been centered in the painting. Later, he would burst in the national scene, with a clear and mature aesthetic idea; wooden hand made objects, armaments as toys, entirely covered with camouflage painting. The painting as camouflage was a gesture of invasion and inversion mediated by color, transforming the three-dimensional object in a two-dimensional one, without hiding its condition of pictorial surface. At the same time provocative phrases like “dominate me”, “fuck me” and others appeared, allusive to power in sexual relationships, expressing the domination of a state and a denied right.
His work manifests not only a subversion of the patriotic symbols, but also the representation of power and submission as matter of gender, but symptomatically inside a macho-military culture.
Converting the vagina in a political icon, fetish that is attractive to the artist, and working at the same time with the religious references, and the toys and sharp objects that suggest armament (as a masculine symbol), his work creates a whole inexistent aesthetic, in which the relations between power, politics ...
Víctor Hugo Bravo (Santiago 1966)
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Es artista visual, curador independiente y docente, obtiene el título de Comunicación Visual en Artes Plásticas con mención en Pintura en el Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo en 1992. Egresado de la Carrera de Diseño Gráfico en Inacap (1984-88) Desde 1999 dirige los Talleres Caja Negra Artes Visuales
Vive y trabaja en Santiago de Chile.
Ha desarrollado un trabajo de carácter colectivo principalmente con el espacio Caja Negra Artes Visuales y su proyecto CUBO intervenciones públicas interdisciplinarias, ediciones, publicaciones, varias curadurías en Chile y el extranjero. Espacio que dirige desde 1999.
Ha participado en diversas residencias artisticas en Colombia, Brasil, Alemania, Chile, Polonia y Ecuador con construcciones de obra que involucran la sociabilización de su producción en propuestas colectivas con la gente a través del trueque y la elaboración de obras en conjunto.
Ha participado en más de 100 exposiciones colectivas y varias individuales, presentadas en importantes museos y galerías de Chile y el extranjero, donde destacamos el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago de Chile, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Laznia, Gdansk, Polonia, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador, MAM. Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Galería Animal, Centro Cultural de España, Centro Extensión de la Universidad Católica, Goethe Institut, Galería Metropolitana, Matucana 100, Santiago. Museo Salvador Allende, Museo de Arte Moderno de Castro Chiloé, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valdivia, Museo de Artes Visuales, Mav...