ExhibitionJuly 14, 2022
Patrick Hamilton's The Brick
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires - Fundación Aldo Rubino and the Asociación Amigos del MACBA present, from June 24 to August 21, the exhibition "The Brick" by Patrick Hamilton.
"The Brick" shows a selection of works made by the artist in the last five years and inspired by the study and analysis of the homonymous book/report, which established the guidelines of the free-market system that was implemented in Chile by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The text was written in the early 1970s by a group of Chilean economists who were students of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago.
In its pages, the "Chicago boys" put forward the radical economic measures that, as an antidote, were to cure Chilean society of the socialist dream, among them the total opening of markets, the lowering of tariffs and taxes, the reduction of public spending and the promotion of privatization of goods and services by the state.
The proposed works include references to social and economic history, collective memory, and artistic movements such as Russian constructivism, neoplasticism, Latin American conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s, minimalism, and arte povera.
About the selection of works, Patrick Hamilton comments, "As part of an act of coherence with a discourse of political and economic criticism, I work with simple materials, elements typical of the construction and masonry sector such as saws, work gloves, spatulas, bricks, and sandpaper, to create — simple and economic compositions."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Galería Casado Santapau, and the Galería Patricia Ready support the exhibition.
"The Brick" shows a selection of works made by the artist in the last five years and inspired by the study and analysis of the homonymous book/report, which established the guidelines of the free-market system that was implemented in Chile by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The text was written in the early 1970s by a group of Chilean economists who were students of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago.
In its pages, the "Chicago boys" put forward the radical economic measures that, as an antidote, were to cure Chilean society of the socialist dream, among them the total opening of markets, the lowering of tariffs and taxes, the reduction of public spending and the promotion of privatization of goods and services by the state.
The proposed works include references to social and economic history, collective memory, and artistic movements such as Russian constructivism, neoplasticism, Latin American conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s, minimalism, and arte povera.
About the selection of works, Patrick Hamilton comments, "As part of an act of coherence with a discourse of political and economic criticism, I work with simple materials, elements typical of the construction and masonry sector such as saws, work gloves, spatulas, bricks, and sandpaper, to create — simple and economic compositions."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Galería Casado Santapau, and the Galería Patricia Ready support the exhibition.
