Archivo MAPA

Description:

Photograph in rectangular format and horizontal layout. In a medium shot, side-on, Filemón González, an artisan, is hammering a big wooden iron in his workshop at the center of the image.

Context:

Due to the move made from the Museo de Arte Popular Americano (MAPA) to the Universidad de Chile’s Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) in 1981, exhibitions had to turn into itinerant exhibitions, and where in places such as O’Higgins Park, the chief magistrate lodge, and Kilip multi-library room. In the latter, Filemón Gonzalez, an artisan, exhibited Tallados en Madera (Wood Carving) in 1986.

Subjects:
Artisan, Filemón González, Folk Art, Outreach, Research and Teaching