Launch | Visual Frontiers of Transition. Art, Advertising, and Media Culture in Chile's Return to Democracy.

Monday, March 30 → 7 PM → Manuel Larraín Auditorium E11. Central House → Av. Bernardo O’Higgins 1825. Los Héroes Metro. Downtown Santiago.

«Visual Borders of Transition: Art, Advertising, and Media Culture in the Return to Democracy in Chile.

Within the framework of the inauguration of the academic year of our university's Art Department, the book will be presented Visual Frontiers of Transition: Art, Advertising, and Media Culture in the Return to Democracy in Chile from the art historian and curator Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela who in this book provides us with an unprecedented panorama of the visual arts in the early years of the so-called democratic transition.

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Andrea Giunta (Argentina). Art historian, independent curator, and professor of Latin American and global art at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research has contributed to redefining the study of modern art in Latin America from feminist perspectives. She is the author of books such as Diversity and Latin American Art, The Political Body, Against the canon y Feminism and Latin American Art. He curated international exhibitions such as Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 and was a curator for the Mercosur Biennial. In 2026, she received the College Art Association's highest honor for her research in art and feminism.

Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela (Chile). Art historian and independent curator. Earned a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a master's and bachelor's degree in Art Theory and History from the University of Chile. He is the author of the book In the Beginning: Art, Archives, and Technologies During the Dictatorship in Chile and co-editor of Trans-Andean Exchanges: Art Stories Between Argentina and Chile. He is currently an associate professor at Alberto Hurtado University and director of the Master's in Image Studies.

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