Edward A. Vazquez’s Finish Line: V.I.S.U.A.L. Among the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde, 1975–1981 will offer an historical account at the intersection of painting, sculpture, printmaking, poetry, graphic design, and critical writing in the work of V.I.S.U.A.L., an editorial collective comprised of the artists Eugenio Dittborn and Catalina Parra and the theorist Ronald Kay. In engaging the complexity of V.I.S.U.A.L.’s individual and shared artistic and editorial practices, this study will consider forms of fractured collectivity.
Edward A. Vazquez is associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College. His research focuses on Minimalist and Conceptual art in Europe and the Americas, especially in Chilean art since 1973. He is the author of Alfredo Jaar: Studies on Happiness (Afterall, 2023) and Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture (University of Chicago Press, 2017).