Hello beings of infinite space! Today I’m going to tell ya about some controversial artist… I refer to, nothing more, nothing less than Marco Evaristti. Although he doesn’t dedicate directly to the performance, this visual artist, born in Santiago in 1963, who besides made his studies in the Architecture School of Copenhague’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark, (country he lives today) between 1987 and 1994.

He often goes beyond the limits, something that I admire so much and I consider that the Art, Chilean art especially, has lost along the years because the over-institutionalizing and becoming in a midnight beggar.

His works generally touch the ethical and morally accepted. Everything with the only end to establish relationships between the society and the Art, reflecting all that dark and brutish humanity have, but above all putting in crisis the “mountings/supports”, either the body itself as ephemeral subject, the nature simply ask ourselves until which point we are capable to reach with our decisions. An example is the famous and well-known work shown in the MAC in 2001, where was installed some blenders with living fish inside, and where the people were incited to choose if they keep the animals with life or not.

Another of his memorable works is one where he ate meatballs made of his own fat, he painted paintings with remains of dead people in accidents (material extracted with previous permissions) or just when he stained an iceberg with red.

All this and more convert this guy in a complex artista, who is not completely dependent of the circuit. His works can fall into the morbid, however it’s a different way to do things. It’s not new, of course, it has clear relations with Viennese Actionism (Action Art), impressionism qualities, even a debtor of advanced scene. Though, he has achieved to give his creations an unique style, which makes me get interested in his works, and contradicting some of my own artistic principles. After all, the primordial of Art is that, contradict, generating strangeness, reflecting and creating again…