Key Words: Building, Heritage, Trains, Fire, Graffiti, Mock-Up, Wood, Rally, Participation, Citizenship, Yungay Station

Artist: Pilar Quinteros (Chile)

Pilar Quinteros (Santiago, Chile, 1988) has a degree in Art from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile (2011). She is co-founder and an active member of the art collective MICH (International Museum of Chile), a group of friends dedicated to generating thoughtful projects, spaces and artistic creations, always with a special interest in the practice of drawing.

She is the winner of the Jean-Claude Reynal 2012 scholarship for artists whose plastic production considers paper as a fundamental building material, which is offered by the Foundation of France in conjunction with the School of Fine Arts of Bordeaux. She achieved third place for the CCU Art Scholarship 2013 and was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize 2014 (PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine).

She has exhibited her work in places such as the National Museum of Fine Arts (Biennale of Media Arts, Santiago, Chile, 2013), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago, Chile, 2010), ArteBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012), Casa de las Américas (Havana, Cuba, 2013), PinchukArtCentre (Kiev, Ukraine, 2014), Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery (London, UK) and the Centre of Graphic Arts of Slovenia (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
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www.pilarquinteros.com

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Artwork: Rally in the Yungay Station

 Rally in the Yungay Station consist in the installation of a model of wood built to scale of the former Yungay Station (Balmaceda Avenue with Carrascal). This station was destroyed in a fire in the first half of the 20th century. The model will be installed on the ruins of the first floor of the old building, a construction which will also form part of the installation. Then the model will be “graffitied” by graffiti artists from the sector.

Place: Old Yungay Station

Address: Av. Balmaceda with Carrascal

Type of Protection: Typical Zone

Opened in 1863, the former Yungay Station for trains served as a combination of four lines: the railways from Valparaiso to Santiago, the Beltway, Yungay – Barrancas and Matucana tunnel, so it was the most important line of the sector northwest of Santiago, and one of the most used in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century. It was known as “the triangle of Yungay.”

In an attempt to prevent the return of military troops to Santiago in 1905, it was burnt by anarchist workers during the “rally of the meat.”

Head of the small Yungay Branch – Mapocho, it divided the services coming from the Mapocho station either to the north or to the south. The ruins of the passenger building constructed in 1915 in the French neoclassical style still survive, and it remains an important heritage site of railways to recover.