Exhibition Dates: June 1 – June 30, 2007
Viewing Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Opening Reception: June 1, 6 - 8pm

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Curated by Mario Navarro


Participating artists: Mónica Bengoa, Francisca Benítez, Diego Fernández,  Nicolás Grum, Iván Navarro, Rodrigo Pereda, Caterina Purdy, Camilo Yañez, Hoffman's House and  Instituto Divorciado.


(VideoBox): Cueca Chora, 2007
By Francisca Benitez



White Box is pleased to present the exhibition Daniel Lopez which consists of young Chilean artists who reside in New York and Santiago. The curatorial project has been undertaken by Mario Navarro, who has chosen a group of outstanding young visual artists as well as two musicians closely linked to contemporary art practices in.

Daniel López was one of the many pseudonyms, used by the now deceased dictator Augusto Pinochet to realize several unlawful transactions at the Riggs Bank in New York , all of which took place from the beginning of his dictatorship up until the mid nineties.   Stemming from this fact the exhibition has as its goals to foreground
 the crumbling economic falsehoods as well as apparent transparency 
and the systemic covering up of the truth that his most intimate circle
was involved in.


Notions of falsehoods, identity retrieval, fraud and replacement are what directly articulate the objectives of the works. Video installations, photographs and objects, directly tackle the banking fraud and in other works, in a more subtle way, the precarious sensation of truth that continuously resonates in Chile .


Artists who have participated in the Havana, Liverpool, Venice and São Paulo Biennial and others with emerging careers are present in  Daniel Lopez hoping to redirect and update perceptions the  New York public might have concerning the language and practices in  contemporary Chilean art.

The exhibition has received generous support from ProChile,
Alfredo Jaar and an anonymous donor, with special thanks to Monica Lorduy. Annual exhibitions are supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional annual organization funds from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

 
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