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GUILLERMO DEISLER
Dear friends,
On October 21st. it will be 10 years since the death of one of the most imp=
ortant and influential artists and poets of the 60's in Latin America, the =
Chilean Guillermo Deisler (1940 - 1995).
A multiple artist, he expressed himself through a variety of mediums: graph=
ics, visual poetry, mail art, state design and, above all, he stood out for=
his exceptional engraving skills, for which he was regarded as one of the =
world's best.
He too will be remembered for his work as a printer. Not only because of th=
e excellence of his "handmade" editions, especially those created in Chile =
(Ediciones Mimbre), but also for UNI/vers, a magazine made through artistic=
cooperation and interaction which delivered 35 issues and brought together=
hundreds of international artists of varied techniques and aesthetic roots.
Guillermo Deisler's singular situation came as a result of cultural interwe=
aving: that of his German and Chilean ancestors, the mixture of indigenous =
and conquering cultures; the Araucanian and Mapuche indians, the Creoles…=
following this, his discovery of the ancient Greek/Latin culture during hi=
s exile in Bulgary and, finally, of the German culture. All these expressio=
ns reunite and expand in Deisler to make him a universal being, the "networ=
ker" prototype in which all cultures coexist in a sort of individual multic=
ulturality, notwithstanding the seeming contradiction.
The aim of this letter is to encourage you to promote actions to honor his =
memory and, above all, stimulate the debate regarding his life: liberty, fr=
ontiers, limits. None other could be the meaning of his verse: "I sometimes=
get tired of being a foreigner", or his favourite symbol, the feather, an =
emblem of the freedom which "crosses all frontiers", or the very name of hi=
s utopia -UNI/vers- aimed at the unification of humanity.
Fraternal greetings
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Estimados amigos,
El proximo 21 de Octubre de este ano se cumpliran los 10 anos del f=
allecimiento uno de los artistas y poetas mas importantes e influyentes d=
e la generacion de los 60s en America Latina, el chileno Guillermo Deis=
ler (1940 - 1995).
Multifacetico, se valio de los mas variados soportes: la grafica, l=
a poesia visual, el arte correo, la escenografia y, sobre todo, se dest=
aco por su excepcional tecnica de grabador, por la que fue considerado =
uno de los mejores del mundo.
Tambien se le recordara por su labor editorial. No solo por la excele=
ncia de sus ediciones "hechas a mano", sobre todo en su etapa chilena, vi=
a Ediciones Mimbre sino, ademas, por su revista UNI/vers, con 35 numero=
s realizados bajo el signo de la cooperacion e interaccion artistica =
que nucleo a cientos de creadores internacionales de la mas variada t=
ecnica y formacion.
La singular situacion vivida por Guillermo Deisler lo ubica como el fruto=
y encuentro de multiples culturas: la de sus ancestros alemanes y chilen=
os, la mezcla de culturas autoctonas y las culturas conquistadoras; los i=
ndios araucanos, los mapuches, los criollos… despues el encuentro con l=
as milenarias culturas greco-latinas en su exilio bulgaro y, finalmente, =
la cultura germana. En Deisler se concentran y se expanden todas esas cultu=
ras generando un ser universal, el prototipo de "networker" en el cual conv=
iven todas esas expresiones en una suerte de pluriculturalidad individual, =
pese a la aparente contradiccion.
El objetivo de esta carta es animarles a promover eventos en honor a su mem=
oria y, sobre todo, a reanimar el debate en torno al tema de su vida: los e=
spacios, las fronteras, los limites. No otra cosa podria significar su =
verso: "A veces me canso de ser extranjero" o su objeto preferido, la pluma=
, simbolo de la libertad que "atraviesa todas las fronteras" o el propio =
nombre su utopia, UNI/vers, hacia la unidad del genero humano.
Fraternalmente,
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