The Climate of Art: Being Contemporary and Facing Crisis
Mateo Chacón Pino (CO/CH)
In this event Mateo Chacón Pino presents his current research as doctoral candidate investigating the relation between History, Nature, and Art. More specifically, he presents the hypothesis and argues about the importance of talking about time when discussing such notions as our environment as well as art and culture.
As part of his presentation, Mateo Chacón Pino introduces the concept for the upcoming cycle of foodculture days’ online editorial platform Boca a Boca. On the premise of “The Dark Abyss”, a metaphor by Italian Philosopher Paolo Rossi for the vast dimensions of time in which we need to make sense, he aims to address the unknown consequences that our life, including art and exhibiting, may have on larger time scales.
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Mateo Chacón Pino is a Colombian-Swiss Art Historian, Curator, and Writer based in Kassel, Germany. He is a research assistant at the documenta Institut and University of Kassel at the Chair for Art & Society, Prof. Dr. Liliana Gómez. The working title of his doctoral thesis is “The Distinction of Art & Nature”, in which he inquires the epistemic time of History of Art in light of the Anthropocene and problematizes the exhibition of contemporary Eco-Art.
In 2021 he graduated in MA History of Art from the University of Zurich with a thesis on the role of governmental art funding in the understanding of Art, mentored by Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster. He participated 2018 in The Curatorial and Artistic Thing at sixtyeight art institute, Copenhagen, and 2016- 2017 in the Curatorial Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam. He has curated projects in art spaces, museums, galleries, and farms in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany. His work is concerned with the question of what Art is and its infrastructure and framework.