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 Australia, where he has been resident since 1974, to talk to his colleague Eugenio Dittborn (Santiago, 1944) about dictatorship, staying or leaving, elitism and childhood. Two critics, Adriana Valdes (Santiago, 1943) and the immigrant Nelly Richard (Caen, 1943) discuss the period 1977-1983, when the visual arts were flourishing under full dictatorship.At the same time, in his studio, Arturo Duclos (Santiago, 1959) paints away all ideologies.
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,…
