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Image courtesy: Andrea Valencia file and Neus Mexico participates in the TRIENNIAL CHILE 2009
NO-EXPOSURE ON THE RESEARCH GROUP OF SOL HENAR


Henaro Sol Mexican curator was invited to participate in Triennial of Chile to develop research on
Non-Group, a leading Mexican group of the seventies. The exhibition will be held under the curatorial ART / LATIN AMERICA: State of siege led by Uruguayan Gabriel Peluffo Linari in which they are exposed five-productions of important files American collectives: Non-Group (Mexico, 1977-1983)
Tucumán Arde (Argentina, 1968), Collective Action Art - EACH (Chile, 1979-1985);
RED Workshop 4 (Colombia, 1972 - 1976), Collective Shares of Art - EACH (Chile, 1979-1985) and EPS Huayco (Peru, 1980-1982).
This is the first time that takes place an exhibition on the production of the Non-Group. Its four members were MARIS BUSTAMANTE (owner of the patent for taco), Melquiades Herrera (Nobel Prize in painting), RUBEN VALENCIA (holder of the title of critical kicker) and Alfredo Núñez (owner of dropouts). They are the four members / founders in the early stages but also collaborated Katia Mandoki, Andrea di Castro and Hersúa. Non-Group was one of the groups that developed the first practical non-theoretical objectual the Juan Acha defended and discussed for example, when he led the 1st Symposium Latinomericano Objectual Art-No (1981, Medellín, Colombia) to which he invited participate to the Non-Group.
Influenced by the strident movement against "the conceptual fayuca" (as one of its members say, Rubén Valencia), the Non-Group generated participatory communication strategies with (the) public (s) in each their "mounts Plastic moment, "a term mainly promoted by Maris Bustamante and the events they called organized and is now known under the name or art-action performances.
Production of Non-Group was characterized by acid position before the official scene, the humor and the defense of non-objectualism what was distinguished from most collaborative strategies or group for that period. The group stayed together for six years and became involved in projects outside of Mexico in the cities of Paris, Medellin, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. In 1983 the group opts for individuals and each of the four pillars of the Non-Group decided to continue with his own creative process.

The exhibition brings together an important set of heterogeneous documents of the Non-Group: photographs, posters, art-object, publications, video, text, text, handbills, photocopy art, prints and exhibits for the first time also Colombia editorial draft Agenda 83, the artistic-political agenda that produced the No-group in solidarity with the Colombian reality and the dissident movement M-19 Movement (April 19). For this publication involved a forty other producers, many of them members of other groups with whom the Non-Group maintained a close relationship: Process Pentagon (Felipe Ehrenberg, Carlos Aguirre, Lourdes Grobet), Group MIRA (Melecio Galván, Arnulfo Aquino, Rebecca Hidalgo, Jorge Perez Vega) Peyote and the Company (Adolfo Patiño) and Group Addition (Oliverio Hinojosa) plus the involvement of other visual artists, graphic communications, cartoonists, photographers and writers.

In one of the members of the Non-Group, Melquiades Herrera, exhibited some documents produced after the group disbanded. Part of the photographic series "Surreal Mexico News, photographs Hinojosa on it and some videos made in collaboration with Jorge Prior.

Parallel to the exhibition will take place from 6 to 8 October at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Santiago, Chile) Discussion Images, imagination and critical imagination, directed by Richard Kelly. In this Henaro Sol curator participate with a presentation entitled "NO-GROUP (1977-1983), a collective jiggling the artistic straitjacket." Among the guests at the various symposia include Manuel Borja (Spain), Néstor García Canclini (Argentina-Mexico), Andrea Giunta (Argentina), Ana Longoni (Argentina) Rolnik Suely (Brazil) and Marcelo Expósito (Spain). In the city of Valparaiso where they will present the exhibition, the artist Maris Bustamante will speak on the plurality of production of Non-Group and Non-Mexican objectualism. (Day and time tbc). GENERAL INFORMATION



LATIN AMERICAN ART Exhibition
: State of siege
Guest Curator: Gabriel Peluffo Linari (Uruguay)
NO-GROUP EXHIBITION, research: SOL HENAR

Center for the Study of Contemporary Urban Development - Santo Domingo no DUC . 4, Valparaiso, Chile

Opening: Friday, October 9 - 19.30 hrs. Closing: December 5 www. trienaldechile.cl