Managers, curators, and founders of the Gallery, Saavedra has studies in literature at the University of Concepción and the University of Chile, while Alarcón has studies in theory and history of art at the University of Chile.
This follows the work of Gonzalo Díaz, one of the country’s most renowned artists, who placed the phrase “United in Glory and in Death” in neon on the front of the National Museum of Fine Arts for his 1997 exhibition.
Nelly Richard, “A propósito de geometría y misterio de barrio de Juan Castillo,” Universitas Humanística, no. 56, (June 2003): 113.
Jacques Rancière, La noche de los proletarios: Archivos del sueño obrero, trans. Enrique Biondini et. al (Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón, 2017) 49. Translation author’s own.
“Perhaps this is the only place from which one could read the populist acrobatics of bringing highbrow art, the axiomatic reflection of the visual concept or the labyrinthine folds of complex thinking, to the neighborhood bastardization of a harsh commune,” wrote Pedro Lemebel about the gallery. Pedro Lemebel, “Aires de arte en la periferia,” in Galería Metropolitana, 1998–2004 …, ed. Luis Alarcón and Ana María Saavedra (Santiago: Ocho Libros, 2004), 10.
