translated from Spanish: “Against death” exhibition brings together works by Guillermo Núñez and Gonzalo Rojas at Universidad de Chile

exhibition “against death” brings together work by Guillermo Núñ EZ and Gonzalo Rojas in Patio Ignacio Domeyko of the Casa Central of the University of Chile, Alameda 1058. Metro Universidad de Chile.
Since September 10.
Entry liberated.
The Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2007 will present for this Monday, September 10 at the Central House of our campus this show inspired by the work of the poet Gonzalo Rojas, in remembrance and tribute to Salvador Allende, and all the victims of the dictatorship. At the opening, a graphic piece that includes the work of both artists will be.
On the occasion of a new commemoration of the coup in Chile, the national artist Guillermo Núñez opening exhibition “against death” next Monday, September 10, in the framework of the cycle of human rights “to 45 years of the coup d ‘ état, not one step “back in truth justice and memory”, organized by the Vice Presidency of Extension and communication of the University of Chile.
The show, which will be available to the public throughout the month of September, consists of fragments of the poem “against the death” of the late Professor and poet Gonzalo Rojas, illustrations and Nunez’s own writings inspired by this work.
The national prize for plastic arts explained that this exposure “is a tribute to Salvador Allende on the anniversary of their sacrifice, and that not only was he but of so many and so many that accompanied this pain.” So with this exhibition, we want to pay tribute to all those missing”.
Extension of the U. of Chile, Ximena Póo, Director pointed out that the sample “offers the possibility to reconnect with the struggle of those who were killed or made to disappear, with the struggle of those who do not forget and leave do not forget; It allows us to again see the dictatorship snatched who and re-program your looks, and also offers us to feel what has happened to Chile in this long story endless.”
On the other hand, Nunez said that “September always brings that sad memory, that memory black”, but that there are “gestures of hope, that things are not forgotten and that they bring new outbreaks”, referring to the Act of relief from the Museum of the memory and the Human rights on the occasion of the sayings of former Minister of culture, Mauricio Rojas, and which brought together more than ten thousand people.
“Surely among those ten thousand had an enormous amount of young people, boys and girls who never lived what we live and which anyway should be with us”, added visual artist.
The inauguration will be a printed reminder of the exhibition consisting of two texts, one of Rojas, another of Nuñez, more a drawing of the visual artist. The event will take place at 12:00 in the Patio Ignacio Domeyko in the Casa Central of the University of Chile (Alameda 1058).
Other activities of the cycle of human rights “45 years after the coup, or a step backwards for truth justice and memory”, is a film festival, as well as a new installment of posthumous and symbolic titles executed students political or detained missing from the institution, activity that will take place on Tuesday, September 11 at noon at the official ceremony of commemoration of another anniversary of the coup d’etat, continuing with the first delivery in April of this year.

Original source in Spanish