Eugenio Dittborn in Europe

Until September 1, with the support of the Alexander and Bonin Gallery in New York, the Museum Het Domein in Holland presents Your Letters. Airmail Paintings 1986–2012, an exhibition that includes the series of airmail paintings created by the Chilean artists between 1986 and 2012.

The exhibition at the Museum Het Domein represents the first personal exhibition by Dittborn in a European museum in fourteen years. It consists of an important selection of the artist's monumental work from the last twenty years. A book will complement this exhibition supported by the Alexander and Bonin Gallery in New York.

Some of the most compelling and well-known works in the exhibition include his Airmail Paintings (1984), a series of works that consists of paintings and photographs on paper that were folded, placed in envelops and mailed to various places. After their arrival, the works would be exhibited along with any indications of their journey, including the marks left by the folds and the envelopes that contained them.

As result of his work during the 1980s, Dittborn became a referent for the Chilean artistic scene from the 1990s and well into the beginning of the Twenty-First Century. In 2002, he was awarded best artist of the region during that decade by the Mercosur Konex Award in Argentina.

Dittborn's work entitled La 23ava Historia del Rostro Humano (Aljo-Violeta) [23rd History of the Human Face (Aljo-Violet), 1999] was acquired by the Museum Het Domein and it is now part of their collection.