Curated by Mariana Marchesi and Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, “
La exposición olvidada y una lectura a cuatro artistas chilenos” (The Forgotten Exhibition and a Reading of Four Chilean Artists) restaged two historical shows to renew a lost link between Chile and Argentina. The exhibition invoked in the first part of the title was “
Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano” (Toward a Profile of Latin American Art), organized in 1972–73 and made up of 143 heliographs made using a cheap process that allowed the show to travel via mail all over the world each about twenty-three by thirty-three inches and produced by one of sixty-nine artists of different nationalities. The idea behind this project by Jorge Glusberg, director and theorist of the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC) in Buenos Aires, was to convene artists under the premise that “there is no such thing as Latin American art, but there is a common problematic resulting from these countries’ revolutionary sit