Valparaíso                                                               Valparaíso - Photos

Valparaíso brings to stage issues that seem paradoxical: plastic arts, garbage and relocated peoples, provoking a reflection about art really is not just as a concept. It refers mainly to the relationship between body and works of art and their spaces, museum related or not.

It made up by different approaches between body and plastic arts. For enjoying a work, for showing off or just for relating to others in this environment the body adopts tricks, gestures and forms that are almost surreal; so Valparaiso ends up criticizing and paying homage to the plastic arts universe ant to men's relationship with beauty.

The play is made up by 8 scenes (Critic, Verbiage, Tree, Guggenhein, Pictures from an Exhibition, Ball, Nakedness and Earth) which were created from researches about the chosen subjects, having Picasso's statement as playwriting and staging cornerstone: A picture is a sum of destructions.

Comparing the play with a white canvas, we could say that by the end there will be a painting with many different styles and influences, with strong brush strokes depicting a figure of extreme sensitivity and poetry. Pure lively colors changing surfaces and providing new textures for the body, and the words coming out of players mouths just like beauty as beginning of the terrible (R.M. Rilke) and possibility of seeing beauty in white and simple.

70 minutes, 6 players.


  “Art should be independent unique and appeal for eyes and ears artistic sense, avoiding confusion with emotion alien to it, as devotion, pity, love and patriotism. Noon of these have any relation to art, that's why I insist in calling my paintings “arrangements” and “harmonies”

Whistler painted Valparaíso in 1866.


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