Montevideo (Uruguay), 1,300,000 inhabitants, borders on the same river, La Plata, as Buenos Aires.Since the end of last century, an art scene has blossomed here, which stands out favourably against the rest of the continent. This is demonstrated by the rich collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, with paintings by Juan Blanes, Pedro Figari, Torres-Garciá, Rafael Barradas, Carlos Gonzales, Manuel Espínola Gómez and Luis Camnitzer. This, despite the fact that dictatorship once again reared its ugly head here at the end of the 1960s, causing the exodus of many intellectuals.Today, the visual artist Luis Camnitzer returns briefly to his country of birth to talk to the painter Manuel Espínola Gómez (Solis de Mataojo, 1921).
Santiago de Chile, 1,500,000 inhabitants, is today recovering from the umpteenth dictatorship and from the exodus of intellectuals.Visual artist Juan Davila (Santiago, 1946), returned from…
