Justo Pastor Mellado, Director of the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, invites you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition "concrete experiments" by Cornelia Vargas, which will take place on Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 19:00 on the second floor of the Difusión building of the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, C° Cárcel, Valparaíso.

The exhibition shows recent concrete art experiments in combination with unpublished documents from her studies at the higher school of design in Ulm (hochschule für gestaltung).

On Friday, November 21, a master class will be held at 15:00 in the same room, an introduction to color in concrete art, based on the methodology of the Bauhaus and the Ulm school that shape these visual experiments.

The exhibition begins and is framed within the context of the 2nd Digital Culture Encounter, an initiative that brings together Chilean and international researchers and creators around the relationship between culture, science, and technology in Valparaiso organized by the Corporación Chilena de Video.

Exhibition

Tribute is paid to her recent production: concrete experiments, and it also shows unpublished works created by her in the preliminary course of the emblematic Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm in the fifties. Cornelia Vargas studied at the HfG Ulm from 1955-1958, with some of her notable professors being Helene Nonné-Schmidt, Max Bill, Max Bense, Horst Rittel, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Tómas Maldonado.

What is concrete art?

A characteristic manifestation of the avant-garde movements that integrated human forms of expression taking as a starting point the generation of basic structures to configure reality: form, time, and space, thus being the direct antecedent of computer practices based on the possibilities of digital codes.

Opening and master class

The exhibition is on display from November 13 to 23, 2014 on the second floor of the new building at the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso. On Friday, November 21, a master class will be held at 15:00 in the same room, an introduction to color in concrete art, based on the methodology of the Bauhaus and the Ulm school that shape these visual experiments.

This event is framed within the 2nd Digital Culture Encounter of Valparaiso, 2014.
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Opening: November 13 19:00
Exhibition date: November 13 to November 23, 2014
Hours: 10:00 - 18:00 / Monday - Sunday
Location: Second floor of the Difusión building of the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, C° Cárcel, Valparaíso.

Class: Introduction to color in concrete art
Date: Friday, November 21, 2014
Hours: 15:00
Location: Second floor of the Difusión building of the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, C° Cárcel, Valparaíso.