Carlota Eugenia Rosenfeld Villarreal (20 June 1943 – 24 July 2020), known as Lotty Rosenfeld, was an interdisciplinary artist based in

Santiago, Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated Regions of Chile, region, t ...

. She was born in Santiago, Chile, and was active during the late 1970s during the time of the Chilean military coup d'état. She carried out public

art intervention Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation. It has the auspice of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with the Viennese Actionists, the Dada mov ...

s in urban areas, often manipulating traffic signs in order to challenge viewers to rethink notions of public space and political agency. Her work has been exhibited in several countries throughout Latin America, and Internationally in places such as Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Art movement and involvement in art

Rosenfeld's involvement in art happened during the Chilean military coup d'état period. Under this regime, she utilized her artwork to demonstrate how official power and conflict zones submit bodies to the margins and borders. She wanted to be separate from the guarded spaces of art and its market therefore she used the streets to perform her work, ultimately interrogating political and cultural spaces. With her art, she hoped that she could change the mentality of people by altering history of her country. The initial medium in which she worked was video recording. She then associated herself with Neo-vanguardism and the Escena de Avanzada, a movement of artists and writers that appeared on the Chilean art scene after the

1973 Chilean coup d'état The 1973 Chilean coup d'état Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Retrieved 22 September 2006. In October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the par ...

. In 1979, along with poet Raúl Zurita, sociologist Fernando Balcells, writer/artist Diamela Eltit, and artist Juan Castillo, she formed,

CADA CADA (call sign: 2ONE) is a music radio station based in outer Sydney, Australia, but licensed to Katoomba, New South Wales, Katoomba. It is operated by the Australian Radio Network. History CADA, formerly known as The Edge, is an Australian ...

(Colectivo de Acciones de Arte) or (Art Actions Collective).

is a collective activist and artist group that used interventions and performance to challenge the

Pinochet regime Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

in Chile throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She has also been involved with

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

, an experimental international interdisciplinary group related to visual arts, music, and literature. Rosenfeld and CADA's work dealt with transforming and intervening in public urban space with the use of symbolism in order to question society's political and authority status. During this period Rosenfeld's work involved performances and video installations. One of her more recent works is titled Mocion de Orden (Motion of Order). This work is a large multimedia installation that was exhibited at the

Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento, A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement (1979)

Rosenfeld is best known for her 'art action' entitled ''Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento (A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement)''. Influences of the social reality that frame societies' routines became the physical foundations of her creative interventions. It was begun in

in 1979. it is one of Rosenfeld's most famous art action pieces. She altered the lines on the pavement, ultimately creating crosses. With the help of anonymous people on the street, they transformed the painted lines that divide streets into crosses with a perpendicular axis made of white tape. Rosenfeld used straight lines on the pavement as a metaphor for the tightly held control of the Pinochet regime. By altering these often-used markings, she transgresses this subsystem of control and confronts the public with an unexpected subversion of meaning. She converts a minus sign into a plus, to create the + sign, challenging the idea that signs are fixed, static markings of meaning. The work itself was a performance piece that disrupted every day traffic under the

Artwork

* ''Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento,'' Art Action/ Video Installation, 1979 * ''Inversión Escénica cenic Investment', Art Action, 1979 * ''Una Herida Americana,'' video Instalación, 1982 * ''White House.'' Photography, 1982 * ''Proposición para (entre) Cruzar Espacios Límites'', Video Action, 1983 * ''Valparaiso- Chile,'' black and white photography, ''1985'' * ''Paz para Sebastián Acevedo,'' Video Art, 1985 * ''Moneda'' * ''Metro Wall St. – USA'' * ''Cautivos'', Video Instalación, 1989 * ''El Empeño Latinoamericano, Vi''deo Projection and Multimedia Installation, 1999 * ''Moción de Orden'', multimedia installation, 2002 * ''Cuenta Regresiva'', multi video proyección, 2006 * ''Acción de Arte'', Allied Checkpoint, 2007 * ''Estadio Chile,'' Chile Triennal, ''2009''

Publications

* Rosenfeld, Lotty, et al. ''Lotty Rosenfeld: moción de orden.'' Ocho Libros Editores, 2002.

Solo exhibitions

* 1979/80 Art Action. Una Milla de Cruces Sobre El Pavimiento. Santiago, Chile * 1981 Art Action: Route 68. Santiago-Valparaíso. Atacama Desert. Copiapó, Chile * 1982 Art Action: White House. Washington D.D., USA. Santiago Stock Exchange, Chile * 1983 Art Action: Borders Chile- Argentina. RDA-RFA. Berlin, Germany * 1984 Art Action: Astronomical Observatory, El Tololo. La Serena, Chile * 1985 Art Action: Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Civic Center of Santiago, Valparaíso Highway. Santiago, Chile * 1987 Sound Intervention: Courts of Justice of Vancouver, Canada * 1988 Art Action: Diego Portales. Headquarters of the Military Government. Santiago, Chile

Exhibitions

* 2002 Lotty Rosenfeld: ''Moción de orden'', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago (traveled) * 2007 Documenta 12, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany * 2010-11 Dislocación: Cultural Location and Identity in Times of Globalization, Kunstmuseum Bern (traveled) * 2013 Lotty Rosenfeld: Por una poética de la rebeldía, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain * 2015 Poéticas de la disidencia , Poetics of Dissent, Chilean Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2015, Venice, Italy

Awards and honors

*1985 Special Jury Prize at the 1st International Video Biennial in Tokyo *1993 Andes Foundation Scholarship *1995 Chilean Critics Circle National Prize in Visual Arts *2001 Paoa Prize, 13th International Film Festival in Viña del Mar *2001 Altazor of Engraving and Drawing Prize at las Artes Nacionales * 2015 Represented Chile in the 56th Venice Biennale along with fellow Chilean artist, Paz Errázuriz

Museum collections

* Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago * Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid * TATE Gallery, London * MOMA, New York

Bibliography

* Brito, María Eugenia. ''Desacato: Sobre la obra de Lotty Rosenfeld''. Santiago: F. Zegers, 1986. * Castillo, Omar-Pascual, and Francis Naranjo. ''Cada d''í''a es +: Juan Castillo, Lotty Rosenfeld''. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain: Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 2013. * Diamond, Sara. "Art after the Coup: Interventions by Chilean Women." ''Fuse'' 11 (April 1988): 15–24. * Pottlitzer, Joanne. "Lotty Rosenfeld: Visual Artist." ''Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas'' 36, no. 66 (2003): 62–73. Richard, Nelly, ed. ''Po''é''ticas de la disidencia: Paz Err''á''zuriz— Lotty'' * ''Rosenfeld''. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2015. * Richard, Nelly, ed. ''Poéticas de la disidencia: Paz Errázuriz—Lotty Rosenfeld''. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2015.

References

External links

Official website

The Chilean Pavilion
at the 56th

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

. The Pavilion was curated by

Nelly Richard Nelly Richard (born 1948) is a Chilean cultural theorist and editor of the '' Revista de crítica cultural''. Among her books are ''The Insubordination of Signs'' and ''Cultural Residues''. Critic Jon Beasley-Murray writes in a review of her wo ...

and included work by Lotty Rosenfeld and Paz Errázuriz.
Metropollis: Lotty Rosenfeld
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