Ch.ACO

(11 Oct 2017 - 15 Oct 2017)

http://chaco.cl

Ch.ACO, Chile Contemporary Art, is an institution that focuses on the development and internationalization of the visual arts industry in Chile and Latin America. By promoting the practice of art collecting as a driving force for the growth of a national patrimony, Ch.ACO seeks to contribute to the creation of a contemporary art market and to become an agent that promotes cultural tourism in Chile.

Since 2009, this institution has organized the Ch.ACO Fair, Chile’s International Contemporary Arts Fair, an event that has established itself as a transversal platform for the diffusion and transaction of contemporary works of art, valuing the system that is consolidated by both national and international galleries. Over these past nine years, over 300 galleries from all over the world have participated in the Fair, and the project has roamed through various prominent and iconic spaces in Santiago, summoning both professionals (art collectors, curators, gallery owners and media outlets), as well as a broad general public, thus expanding the interest in visual arts to the masses.

With an average of over 30,000 visitors each year, the event consists of an art exhibition, a conversation panel, a VIP program, educational activities, art awards, and an area dedicated to publications. For its ninth edition, Ch.ACO is moving to the neighborhood of Vitacura, home to most of the city’s art galleries, and along with the municipality of Vitacura, it shall become a promoter of a new cultural initiative: Visual Arts Month. The Fair shall therefore take place within a wider program of public art, performances, exhibitions and launches.

Along with the Fair’s main section, MAIN, which includes both national and international galleries, Ch.ACO Fair ’17 shall also offer other sections in which contents shall be directed by various curators: FOCUS, in which British-Venezuelan curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill invites 24 artists to hold a dialogue in regards to the theme of object-subject in contemporary art; PLANTA, which brings together 12 young Latin American creation projects, selected by Chilean curator Carolina Castro Jorquera; and NAVE DE EDICIONES, directed by Chilean editor Camila Opazo, which seeks to generate a dialogue regarding the subject of the journey of ideas through publications and artists’ books from different countries.

The ninth edition of Ch.ACO Fair ’17 shall take place from October 11th through 15th in the CV Galeria building, located on the intersection of Alonso de Córdova with Av. Vespucio, in the neighborhood of Vitacura in Santiago, Chile.