HOFFMANN'S HOUSE
>> IF I CAN MAKE IT HERE, I CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE ("SI LO PUEDO HACER AQUÍ, LO HARÉ EN CUALQUIER PARTE"), 2007 <<
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ESP
Esta obra se presentó por primera vez en 2007 en "Daniel López Show" en la galería de arte Roebling Hall de Brooklyn, Nueva York. Reunía setenta y dos formularios de solicitud de cuentas corrientes del Banco de Chile intervenidos por setenta y dos artistas chilenos residentes en Santiago y Nueva York y sus duplicados, aludiendo a las identidades falsas que Pinochet utilizó para abrir cuentas bancarias en el extranjero, incluyendo nombres como Daniel López, Augusto Ugarte y José Ramón Ugarte. "Daniel López Show", organizada en un contexto de postdictadura, exploraba temas centrales relacionados con Pinochet, abarcando desde su reclusión, juicio y muerte hasta la corrupción política y concentración de riqueza.
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ENG
This artwork was first presented in 2007 at the "Daniel López Show" at Roebling Hall Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. It brought together seventy-two Banco de Chile checking account application forms tapped by seventy-two Chilean artists living in Santiago and New York and their duplicates, alluding to the false identities Pinochet used to open foreign bank accounts, including names such as Daniel López, Augusto Ugarte, and José Ramón Ugarte. "Daniel Lopez Show," staged in a post-dictatorship context, explored central themes related to Pinochet, from his imprisonment, trial and death to political corruption and the concentration of wealth.
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BIOGRAFÍA
Hoffmann's House es un dúo de artistas compuesto por Rodrigo Vergara y Pablo Díaz, quienes iniciaron su trayectoria en 1999 en Santiago de Chile, participando en diversas exposiciones. Este proyecto comenzó como una galería de arte móvil, a partir de con la adquisición de una mediagua, una vivienda social de emergencia que se puede montar y desmontar en distintos espacios públicos de la ciudad, que funcionaba como galería móvil. Las actividades de Hoffmann's House giran en torno a la precariedad económica y profesional en Chile.
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BIO
This work was first presented in 2007 during the group show Daniel López Show at Roebling Hall Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition brought together several artists who addressed critical post-dictatorship issues, such as corruption and the concentration of wealth, and took its title from one of the pseudonyms used by Augusto Pinochet to hide money. The Chilean art collective Hoffmann’s House participated by inviting artists based in Chile and New York to draw on forms to apply for checking accounts at Banco de Chile, the institution responsible for transferring money abroad. Seventy-two artists responded to the call intervening the forms with drawings, burn marks, scribbles, and writings. The work, titled after the song New York, New York, popularized by Frank Sinatra, includes both the originals and their duplicates and arranges them randomly, alluding to concepts of fraud and forgery.
Hoffmann’s House, composed by visual artists Rodrigo Vergara and José Pablo Díaz, was founded in 1999 with the acquisition of a prefabricated house, which they used as a mobile gallery. Their artistic, curatorial, and management activities aimed to address and counteract the economic and professional precariousness of artists in Chile.
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