Eugenio Dittborn was born in Santiago de Chile in 1943 and continues to live and work in that city. The ‘airmail painting’ has been Dittborn’s primary occupation since 1984. Initially executed on large sheets of brown paper, which could be folded down to one-sixteenth of its size and sent in large envelopes through the international mail system, he has twice changed the material of the underlying structure of the ‘airmail paintings’: in 1986 to a non-woven fabric and again in 1994 to cotton duck. The folds in the work bear with them the traces of the cultures and political landscapes through which they travel.
External Links
- For further information on Dittborn and viewing his works online, follow the link to the gallery (Alexander & Bonin) that exhibited his works: http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/artist/eugenio-dittborn