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Her work is in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London. ln her more recent works, as in the video installation El empeño latinoamericano [The Latin American commitment, 1998], she turned toward a more mathematical interpretation of the plus sign to denounce the greed and neoliberal practices common in capitalist countries.

From 1967 to 1969 she studied at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas, Universidad de Chile, in Santiago. She thus turned the traffic markers into crosses or plus signs. She incorporated the "No +" symbol into her set design, and it was later adopted by other women's groups and social causes.

Parallel to CADA's actions, Rosenfeld developed her own body of work.

Along with fellow Chilean artist Paz Errázuriz (b. 1952). That same year, 1983, the feminist group Mujeres por la Vida invited Rosenfeld to design the set for a rally that would bring together for the first time representatives of all oppositional parties. She has been the recipient of the highest honors given in Chile: the Premio a la Trayectoria Artística (1995) of the Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile, the Paoa Prize (2001) of the International Film Festival in Viña del Mar, and the Premio Altazor de las Artas Nacionales (2003).

Her most iconic action is Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento [A thousand crosses on the pavement, 1979], in which she attempted to reclaim public spaces that had been seized under the regime of Augusto Pinochet by placing tape across the dashed white lines separating traffic lanes on highways.

lotty rosenfeld biography of alberta

Her work is in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London. She thus turned the traffic markers into crosses or plus signs. 1949), and the artist Juan Castillo (b. She incorporated the “No+” symbol into her set design, and it was later adopted by other women’s groups and social causes.

Parallel to CADA’s actions, L.

Rosenfeld developed her own body of work. CADA's antitotalitarian imagery reached its apogee in 1983—exactly ten years after a military junta had staged a coup d'état that overthrew the democratically elected president Salvador Allende—when the group designed the political symbol "No +" (No more), which was soon employed by artists, activists, politicians, and others to denounce a wide variety of social injustices.

Her most iconic action is Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento (A thousand crosses on the pavement, 1979), in which she attempted to reclaim public spaces that had been seized under the regime of Augusto Pinochet by placing tape across the dashed white lines separating traffic lanes on highways. 1943, Santiago, Chile) studied at Escuela de Artes Aplicadas, Universidad de Chile, specialising in printmaking.

In her more recent works, as in the video installation El empeño latinoamericano (The Latin American commitment, 1998), she turned toward a more mathematical interpretation of the plus sign to denounce the greed and neoliberal practices common in capitalist countries.

Rosenfeld has been the recipient of the highest honors given in Chile: the Premio a la Trayectoria Artística (1995) of the Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile, the Paoa Prize (2001) of the International Film Festival in Viña del Mar, and the Premio Altazor de las Artes Nacionales (2003).

In 1979, dissatisfied with making ‘decorative’ art during the Pinochet dictatorship, Rosenfeld co-founded the interdisciplinary politico-artistic collective CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte) with fellow artist Juan Castillo, sociologist Fernando Balcells, writer Diamela Balcells, and poet Raúl Zurita. Thot same year, 1983, the feminist group Mujeres por la Vida invited L.

Rosenfeld to design the set for a rally that would bring together for the first time representatives of all oppositional parties. Along with fellow Chilean artist Paz Errázuriz, Rosenfeld represented Chile in the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.

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Lotty Rosenfeld

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