Alfredo Antonio Jaar Hasbun

Alfredo Antonio Jaar Hasbun . Visual artist, architect and filmmaker.

Summary

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• 1 Biographical summary
  • 1Trayectoria
• 2 Works in public collections
  • 1 Awards and honors
• 3 Exhibitions
  • 1 Individual exhibitions
  • 2 Group exhibitions
• 4Fuente

biographical synthesis

He was born in Santiago on February 5 , 1956 .

After winning the Air France international literary scholarship of the Antoine de St. Exupéry contest at the age of 18 , he entered a degree in architecture at the University of Chile in 1979 . He studied film at the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura in Santiago. In the late seventies, he participated in competitions and exhibitions where he stood out as a sculptor, engraver and installer.

In 1982 he won the Fundación del Pacífico Scholarship and settled in New York , United States , where he began to develop a solid and recognized international career. In 2000 she was awarded the Mac Arthur Fellowship Grant, which honors individuals of exceptional merit and sustained high-quality creative work. He was distinguished with the Winton Chair for Liberal Arts by the University of Minnesota in the United States , which is awarded to scholars who have questioned established patterns of thought and who have developed research challenging and expanding cultural paradigms.

This Chilean architect has always been a strong critic of political, economic and social discrimination. We can see all this in his different photographic and visual works, for example, his installation “Lights in the city” from 1990 , made in Montreal – Canada , which shows the “silent voices” of the refugees, of those who do not are taken into account. This installation consisted of Alfredo installing red lights in a dome that was not used in the city, and in the different shelters he had a switch so that people could turn on the red light to be noticed. This caused a lot of controversy and therefore did not last as long as planned.

Trajectory

His works are related to issues such as social, political and geographical crises. All this relationship is due to the critical and strong content that the different works handle, since, as previously stated, it is an invitation to the memory of peoples who tend to forget everything easily and the enhancement of all those situations. For his world-renowned career in photography, video and installation, he won the 2013 National Art Award .

Attached to the conceptual line, it is part of the Chilean avant-garde with a visual proposal that raised the communicational limitations and advantages of art to approach the social space.

Since the mid-1980s, Jaar’s work has been characterized by his strong criticism of political, economic and social discrimination. Using the language of art, he became a staunch opponent of global development policies.

He has traveled the world with camera in hand, rescuing images that denounce the problems of poverty, hunger, war, the exploitation of man, AIDS and racial and political discrimination. The use of these images leads to reflection on power, the media, and the responsibility that falls on them in the matter of manipulation and trivialization of great human catastrophes.

Jaar’s installations are transitory, they last as long as they are exhibited and for this he uses the so-called mix-media, that is, light resources, photography and other utilitarian materials of modern life. Generally, the place where they are exhibited and the spectators themselves, are incorporated into the totality of the work on the assumption of being active interpreters of it.

Works in public collections

• National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile

1. Against the wall, photography, paper, 75x 51 cm/ 75 x 115 cm
2. The eyes of Clotario Blest, photography, paper, 42, 5 x 55 cm
3. The Cordillera de los Andes (CB), mixed technique, neon and paper

• Museum of Visual Arts, Mavi, Santiago, Chile

1. Rushes, 1986– 1987 , polyptych, photographic record of the installation in Spring Station, New York , United States

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada

1. Untitled (Water), 1990, 5 double light boxes with color transparencies 102 x 102 x 20 cm and framed mirrors 30 x 30 x 5 Set : 117 x 117 x 71 cm

• National Museum of Modern Art, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1. Frame of Mind, 1987, 5 light boxes with color transparencies 76 x 102 x 15 cm, mirror 30 x 500 x 5 cm, gold frame. Set : 183 x 500 x 66 cm

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, ​​Spain

1. The Day You Love Me, 1990, 5 double light boxes 102 x 102 x 20 cm, with transparencies in color, framed mirrors separated by 4 parts of variable dimensions, 1 framed and screen-printed mirror. Set: variable.

• Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States

1. Cries and Whispers, 1988, 2 light boxes with color transparencies 46 x 243 x 23 Set: variable.
2. Geography = War, 1991, 4 light boxes with color transparencies 102 x 102 x 20 cm, 4 metal barrels, water 91 x 61 x 61 Set: variable.

• La Joya Museum Of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, United States

1. Untitled (Coyote), 1990, valla publicitaria, 4.27x 14.63

• Museum Of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japón

1. Teach us to Outgrow our Madness, 1995, 3 light boxes with 6 color transparencies 102 x 203 x 20 cm, framed mirror 30 x 711 x 5 cm, Nocturnal Capriccio soundtrack. Set: 117x 711x 71

• Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, United States

1. The Eyes of Gutete Emerita ( 2ndversion)

• Museum of Modern Art, Moma, New York, United States
• The Museum Of Art, Atlanta, United States

1. The Fire next Time, 1989, 22 light boxes with transparencies in black and white 38 x 38 x 183 Set: variable.

• Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, United States

1. Walking on Water, 1992, Encounters/Displacements, double light boxes.

• Spring Street Station, New York, United States

1. Rushes, 1986, Panel Publicitario, instalación mix-media.ARS´ 95

• Helsinki, Finland

1. One Million Finnish Passports, 1995, installation, mix-media. Destroyed by order of the Finnish Immigration Authorities.

• Hirshorn Museum And Sculpture Garden, WashingtonC., Estados Unidos

1. Cries and Whispers, 1988, 2 light boxes with color transparencies 46 x 243 x 23 Set: variable.

• Museum Of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States

1. Gold in the Morning, 1986, 3 light boxes with color transparencies 76 x 102 x 15 cm, 2 metal boxes 76 x 102 x 15 cm, gold frame 63 x 63 x 5 cm, nails 305 x 305 Set: variable.

• Fonds National D’art Contemporain, Paris, France .

1. Coyote, 1988, color transparency light box 162 x 243 x 25 cm, metal pool 25 x 243 x 243 cm, water. Set: 193 x 243 x 274 cm

• Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, United States

1. A Hundred Times Nguyen, 1996, “quad vision” lightbox 66 x 58 x 15 cm, mosaic printed with four color transparencies. Sequence: 4 phases of 15 Total cycle: 60 seconds. Edition of 6 .

• Caisse De Depots And Consignments, Paris, France

1. Paysage, 1989, 5 light boxes with color transparencies 102 x 102 x 15 cm, 19 framed mirrors 203 x 20 x 5 Set: 254 x 813 x 66 cm

• Metropole Art Collection, Toronto, Canada

1. It is difficult, 1997, billboard, 3 x 6 , 1 edition of 5

• Magasin 3Stockholm Konsthall, Estocolmo , Suecia

1. Reflections, 1989, Light box with black and white transparency 15 x 102 x 102 cm, glass pool 15 x 183 x 183 cm, water, wooden base. Set: 112 x 183 x 183 cm
2. No More, 1989, 2 light boxes with transparencies in black and white 152 x 152 x 25 and 152 x 245 x 25 cm Set: 152 x 508 x 25 cm
3. Fading, 1989, 3 light boxes with transparencies in black and white 122 x 183 x 25 Set: 122 x 549 x 25 cm

• National Gallery Of Australia

1. Fading, 1991, photographs variable dimensions, metal pools 13 x 120 x 120 cm, water. Set: variable.

• Public Art Fund, New York, United States

1. This is not America, 1987, Times Square, New York , installation/mix-media

• The Art Institute Of Chicago, United States

1. 1 +1+1, 1987, 3 light boxes with transparencies in sepia tones , 102 x 102 x 13 cm, gilt frames, variable dimensions, mirror. Set: 127 x 503 x 183 cm

• The Israel Museum, Israel

1. Face to Face, 1987, light box with transparency in sepia tones 102 x 76 x 13, gold frame 115 x 115 x 5 cm. Set: 127 x 115 x 30 cm

• Private Collection, Montreal, Canada(Do Not Place)

1. One Hundred Times Nguyen, 1994, installation/mix-media.
2. Europe, Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart, installation/mix-media.

• Daros Latin America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

1. The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1996

Awards and distinctions

• 1974Beca Literaria Internacional Air France del I Concurso Antoine de St. Exupéry.
• 1979First Mention in Graphics, V National Securities Placer Contest, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile .
• 1980Second Mention, Centenary Sculpture Contest of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile .
• 1981Medal of Honor Federico Santa María, V Biennial of Art of Valparaíso, Chile .
• 1981First Prize for Engraving, II University Art Biennial, Las Condes Cultural Institute, Santiago, Chile .
• 1981Pacific Foundation International Scholarship. VII Contest of the National Securities Placer, National Museum of Fine Arts. Santiago, Chile .
• 1984Artists Space Grant, New York , United States .
• 1985Beca Foundation John Simon Guggenheim, United States .
• 1985National Endowment for the Arts, United States .
• 1986Member of the New York Council of the Arts, USA .
• 1987Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Scholarship, United States .
• 1989Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berliner Kunstlerprogram, Berlin , Germany . He is a member of Artists Space. Alternative circle made up of avant-garde artists in New York , United States .
• 2000John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant, New York , United States .
• 2005Extremadura Prize for Creation for the Best Artistic Career of an Ibero-American Author, Spain .
• 2006Award for the Best Visual Arts Exhibition of the Year, Jaar SCL 2006 . Chilean Art Critics Circle .
• 2006Claude François Brunet de Baines Architect Medal from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile .
• 2013National Art Award, Santiago, Chile .

exhibitions

Individual expositions

• 1979Jaar Objects, CAL Gallery, Santiago, Chile .
• 1980/1 Studies on Happiness, Art Action, Santiago, Chile.
• 1985Installation Projects: 1980–1985, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University,Estados Unidos.
• 1986Rushes, Spring Street subway station, New York, Estados Unidos.
• 1986Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana, USA .
• 1986Welcome to the Third World, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, USA .
• 1987Spectacolor Lightboard, One Times Square, New York , United States .
• 1987Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Florida , United States .
• 1987Frame of Mind, Gray Art Gallery, Study Center New York University , United States .
• 1987A Logo for America, Times Square, New York , USA .
• 1988Alfredo Jaar: Public Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia , United States .
• 1988Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston , USA .
• 1988Rome, CittáAperta, Lidia Carreri Gallery, Rome , Italy .
• 1988Out of Balance, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston , United States .
• 1989Falling Rocks, University of Colorado Art Gallery, United States .
• 1989They Loved the Revolution So Much, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio United States .
• 1989Transparencies, Syracuse, New York , United States .
• 1989Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam , Netherlands .
• 1989Alfredo Jaar – Sheer Conviction, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, Estados Unidos.
• 1989Alfredo Jaar: The Fire next Time, The Brooklyn Museum, New York , United States .
• 1989Waiting, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, United States .
• 1989Landscape, The Arch of the Brotherhood, La Defensé, París , Francia .
• 1990San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California , United States .
• 1990Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, United States .
• 1990Untitled (water), Insam Gleicher Gallery, Chicago , United States .
• 1990Geography = War, Diane Brown Gallery, New York , USA .
• 1990They loved the Revolution so much, London Regional and Historical Museums, Ontario, Canada .
• 1990San José Museum of Art, California , United States .
• 1990 New Work: a New Generation, San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art , United States .
• 1990Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, United States .
• 1990Alfredo Jaar, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California , United States .
• 1990London Regional and Historical Museums, Londres, Ontario.
• 1990Alfredo Jaar, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California , United States .
• 1991Benet Costa Gallery, Barcelona , ​​Spain .
• 1991Oliva Arauna Gallery, Madrid , Spain .
• 1992Alfredo Jaar Works, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, Estados Unidos.
• 1992Andalusian Pavilion, Expo 92 , Seville , Spain .
• 1992Alfredo Jaar: Geography = War, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago , USA .
• 1993Alfredo Jaar, Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen, Germany .
• 1993Working, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California , United States .
• 1993(Un)framed, Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, Escocia.
• 1994Oliva Arauna Gallery, Madrid , Spain .
• 1994Frankfurt Art Association, Frankfurt, Germany .
• 1994IFA, Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart, Germany .
• 1995Galerie Lelong, New York , United States .
• 1995Real Photographs: An Installation by Alfredo Jaar, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago , United States .
• 1995Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa , United States .
• 1995One Million Finnish Passports. Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finlandia.
• 1996City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, United States .
• 1997The Light Factory, Charlotte, United States .
• 1997Oliva Arauna Gallery, Madrid , Spain .
• 1997Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna , Austria .
• 1998Slide+Sound Piece, audiovisual, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile .
• 1998Municipal Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Holland .
• 1998Alfredo Jasar, Lelong Gallery, New York , USA .
• 1999Playground, Barcelona, ​​Spain .
• 2000The Skoghall Art Gallery, Suecia .
• 2000Offering, Kwangju, South Korea .
• 2000The Cloud, Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, United States .
• 2002Alfredo Jaar, Lament of the Images, Galerie Lelong, New York , United States .
• 2005Requiem for Leipzig, Germany .
• 2006Muxima, Galerie Lelong, New York , United States .
• 2006Jaar SCL 2006, Fundación Telefónica Room, Santiago, Chile .
• 2007Alfredo Jaar, The Politics of Images, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland .
• 2008Tate Modern Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra.
• 2008That was then, this is now, Long Island City, Estados Unidos.
• 2008It is Difficult, Spazio Oberdan, Milan , Italy .
• 2009Interventions in the city of Barcelona , ​​Spain .
• 2009Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona , ​​Spain .

group exhibitions

• 1979First Biennial of University Art, Catholic University of Chile , National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile .
• 1979V Contest of the National Placement of Values, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile .
• 1980National Graphic Show of the Catholic University, Las Condes Cultural Institute, Santiago, Chile .
• 1981Second Biennial of University Art, P. Catholic University of Chile , National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile .
• 1981V International Art Biennial Valparaíso, Chile .
• 1981Seventh National Securities Placer Contest, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile .
• 1982Viva la Patria, II Franco-Chilean Meeting of Video Art, Chilean-French Institute of Culture, Santiago, Chile .
• 1983Terminal New York , Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York , United States .
• 198518th International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil .
• 1985Four Chilean Artists: Díaz, Dittborn, Jaar and Leppe, Center for Art and Visual Communication, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
• 1985Freedom Within, Paintings by Juan Sanchez / Installation by Alfredo Jaar, The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery / State University of New York At Stony Brook, USA .
• 1985Four Chilean Artists: Díaz, Dittborn, Jaar and Leppe, Center for Art and Visual Communication, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
• 1986Alfredo Jaar: Gold in the Morning, XLII International Exhibition The Venice Biennale, Italia.
• 1987Learning to Play, XIX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil .
• 1988Committed toprínt: Social and political themes in the recent American print art, Modern Museum of Art, New York, Estados Unidos.
• 1989Prospect photography, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany .
• 1989The Booth, The Photography of Inventions: American Pictures of the 1980s , National Museum of American Art. Traveling exhibition.
• 1990Spheres of Influence, installation, 8th . Sydney Biennale, Australia .
• 1990The Day You Love Me, To Be And Not To BE, Center d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona , ​​Spain .
• 1991The way it was, Heimat, Wewerka & Weiss Gallerie, Berlín, Alemania.
• 1992The Conference, Arte Amazonas, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .
• 1992Je me Souviens, For the Suite of the world, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada .
• 1992Latin America contemporary art, Hotel des arts, Paris , France .
• 1992Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany .
• 1992George Pompidou Centre, Paris , France .
• 1993Blow Up, Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York , United States .
• 1993Encounters/Displacements, Art Gallery, Austin, United States .
• 1994The Origin of Things, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada .
• 1994Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA .
• 1995]The Spirit of Hiroshima and After, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japón.
• 1996One and Others, Lelong Gallery, New York , USA .
• 1996The Limits of Photography, “Nguyen”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago and traveled to Banco Patricios Foundation, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
• 1996Blurring the Boundaries. Installation Art: 1969–1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego e itineró a Miami Art Museum, Estados Unidos.
• 1997The Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 1997First Biennial of Visual Arts of Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil .
• 1997New Grounds: Prints and Múltiples, International Center for Graphic Arts, Eslovenia.
• 1998The edge of awareness, World Health Organization, Ginebra, Suiza.
• 2001Nauman Kruger Jaar, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Suiza .
• 2004The End of the Eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile .
• 2004Exhibition of works belonging to the MOMA, Museo del Barrio Estados Unidos .
• 2005The Hours Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlanda.
• 2007Venice Biennale, Italy .
• 2007Negatec, Telefónica Foundation Space, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
• 2008Face to Face, Daros Latin America, Zürich, Switzerland .
• 2008Risky Business, Art, Lugano, Suiza.
• 2008Pictures in Series, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York , USA .
• 2009ArteBA Fair, presented by Animal Gallery, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
• 2009Art 40 Basel International Art Show, Basilea, Suiza.
• 2009ARCO 2009 , Madrid , Spain .
• 2010Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• 2011/ 2012 Chile Years 70 and 80 Memory and Experimentality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mac, University of Chile , Santiago, Chile