Archivo MAPA

Description:

Photograph in rectangular format and horizontal layout. In close-up, side-on, the face of Filemón Gonzalez, a wood artisan, in his workshop.

Context:

Due to the move made from the American Folk Art Museum (MAPA) to the Universidad de Chile’s Contemporary Art Museum (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