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Fifty hands stamped with red paint on a white canvas of 6 square meters was the significant artistic proposal that this September 11 It was found hanging from the main balcony of the heritage building of the Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum, as part of the closing of the Memory Exercises commemoration.
The canvas titled Red (2019) is the work of Hervé Fischer, a French Canadian artist who, inspired by the social outbreak in October, sent his creation from Quebec at the end of last year, as the culmination of a long relationship with the Museum since 1972.
The painting had been donated by the artist for the Museum’s collection, but due to its state of deterioration it was diagnosed that it could not be properly preserved.. It was then that he was proposed to exhibit it on the front of the museum as a contribution to a reflection from art regarding the 1973 coup.
“I painted this canvas during winter 2019 outside my cabin in a forest in Quebec where I live, in response to the social demonstrations that emerged in Chile last year, as a reaction of support to this awakening and a cry for social justice and dignity. The painting did not withstand the freezing cold well, as well as my bare hands to paint. So I am not surprised by the damage that has occurred that is part of its creation and I accept any damage that its exhibition outside for the Memory Exercise of 11 September 1973. These will be inscribed as an indelible trace within my painting, “said Fischer before the museum’s proposal.
Memory Exercises 2020 was a program that ran from September 7 to 11 with five meetings, an audiovisual exhibition and a candlelight, organized by the Solidarity Museum together with five social academic institutions from Valparaíso, Valdivia and Santiago.
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