Five urban interventions, by three international and two national artists, will give life to the fifth edition of the urban art festival Hecho en Casa Entel (in English “Home Made Entel”). The free event will run from Thursday, September 28 to Sunday, October 8 with monumental and interactive works that will invite people to connect with culture and look at the city with new eyes.
One of the novelties this year is that the festival will be extended from 6 to 11 days, to cover two weekends and give more people the opportunity to be part of this experience. Last year, more than 3 million visited the works of this festival, the largest in Latin America in urban art, and it is expected that in 2017 the number of attendees will reach 5 million. In addition, for the first time in its history the festival will also reach other regions, specifically Valparaíso.
One of the works is in charge of the Dutch Florentijn Hofman, who will arrive in the country with “Rubber Duck”, a yellow duck 20 meters high and 17 meters wide, which will dawn in the lagoon of Quinta Normal Park, as if it were a bathtub. This work, which has visited several countries since 2008 (although never with these enormous dimensions), will be in the park from September 28 to October 1.
Also, from October 4 to 8, Pato de Hule will be in the Valparaíso bay swimming in the sea right in front of Muelle Prat, weather conditions permitting.
Meanwhile, in Paseo Bulnes, in downtown Santiago, the Australians from The Glue Society will present an intervention specially designed for the festival. It is “Clothesline”, a string of hanging clothes 5 meters wide by 8 meters high, which will extend for 50 meters on the pedestrian promenade. As an additional effect, the clothes will drip water.
On the esplanade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the English family Sand in Your Eye will use 120 tons of sand to create the work “We”, which consists of sculpting representative faces of the original peoples of America. This work will be completed during the festival.
The fourth intervention, called “ Patrimonial Mural”, will be in charge of the Antofagasta artist Luis Núñez, who will paint a hyperrealist mural of 300 square meters, set in the year 1900, on Rosal Street in Paseo Lastarria.
The fifth work will be “ Chilensis Butterflies”, by Chilean artist Valeria Merino, winner of the #IdeasTorreEntel contest, an initiative in which more than 40 projects participated. Merino’s intervention will consist of five giant butterflies that will perch on the Entel Tower as if this symbol of technology were a tree in a concrete forest.
“We always seek to draw people’s attention in a positive way, interrupting the routine and everyday spaces through urban art. That’s why people appreciate this event, which is free access, and which invites to look at the environment as something closer and inclusive” ,commented Payo Söchting, creative director of the festival.
Entel’s CEO, Antonio Büchi, invited everyone to experience this new version of the festival. “We are very happy to be able to inspire and surprise the people of Santiago again and to bring Hecho en Casa Entel to Valparaíso for the first time this year. We invite young and old to be part of this festival, to connect with their city, the landscape, art and culture”.
Each urban intervention will have a selfie point, which will recommend the best angle to take a picture next to the different works.
23 Sep, 2017
Five urban interventions, by three international and two national artists, will give life to the fifth edition of the urban art festival Hecho en Casa Entel (in English “Home Made Entel”). The free event will run from Thursday, September 28 to Sunday, October 8 with monumental and interactive works that will invite people to connect with culture and look at the city with new eyes.
One of the novelties this year is that the festival will be extended from 6 to 11 days, to cover two weekends and give more people the opportunity to be part of this experience. Last year, more than 3 million visited the works of this festival, the largest in Latin America in urban art, and it is expected that in 2017 the number of attendees will reach 5 million. In addition, for the first time in its history the festival will also reach other regions, specifically Valparaíso.
One of the works is in charge of the Dutch Florentijn Hofman, who will arrive in the country with “Rubber Duck”, a yellow duck 20 meters high and 17 meters wide, which will dawn in the lagoon of Quinta Normal Park, as if it were a bathtub. This work, which has visited several countries since 2008 (although never with these enormous dimensions), will be in the park from September 28 to October 1.
Also, from October 4 to 8, Pato de Hule will be in the Valparaíso bay swimming in the sea right in front of Muelle Prat, weather conditions permitting.
Meanwhile, in Paseo Bulnes, in downtown Santiago, the Australians from The Glue Society will present an intervention specially designed for the festival. It is “Clothesline”, a string of hanging clothes 5 meters wide by 8 meters high, which will extend for 50 meters on the pedestrian promenade. As an additional effect, the clothes will drip water.
On the esplanade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the English family Sand in Your Eye will use 120 tons of sand to create the work “We”, which consists of sculpting representative faces of the original peoples of America. This work will be completed during the festival.
The fourth intervention, called “ Patrimonial Mural”, will be in charge of the Antofagasta artist Luis Núñez, who will paint a hyperrealist mural of 300 square meters, set in the year 1900, on Rosal Street in Paseo Lastarria.
The fifth work will be “ Chilensis Butterflies”, by Chilean artist Valeria Merino, winner of the #IdeasTorreEntel contest, an initiative in which more than 40 projects participated. Merino’s intervention will consist of five giant butterflies that will perch on the Entel Tower as if this symbol of technology were a tree in a concrete forest.
“We always seek to draw people’s attention in a positive way, interrupting the routine and everyday spaces through urban art. That’s why people appreciate this event, which is free access, and which invites to look at the environment as something closer and inclusive” ,commented Payo Söchting, creative director of the festival.
Entel’s CEO, Antonio Büchi, invited everyone to experience this new version of the festival. “We are very happy to be able to inspire and surprise the people of Santiago again and to bring Hecho en Casa Entel to Valparaíso for the first time this year. We invite young and old to be part of this festival, to connect with their city, the landscape, art and culture”.
Each urban intervention will have a selfie point, which will recommend the best angle to take a picture next to the different works.
Five urban interventions, by three international and two national artists, will give life to the fifth edition of the urban art festival Hecho en Casa Entel (in English “Home Made Entel”). The free event will run from Thursday, September 28 to Sunday, October 8 with monumental and interactive works that will invite people to connect with culture and look at the city with new eyes.
One of the novelties this year is that the festival will be extended from 6 to 11 days, to cover two weekends and give more people the opportunity to be part of this experience. Last year, more than 3 million visited the works of this festival, the largest in Latin America in urban art, and it is expected that in 2017 the number of attendees will reach 5 million. In addition, for the first time in its history the festival will also reach other regions, specifically Valparaíso.
One of the works is in charge of the Dutch Florentijn Hofman, who will arrive in the country with “Rubber Duck”, a yellow duck 20 meters high and 17 meters wide, which will dawn in the lagoon of Quinta Normal Park, as if it were a bathtub. This work, which has visited several countries since 2008 (although never with these enormous dimensions), will be in the park from September 28 to October 1.
Also, from October 4 to 8, Pato de Hule will be in the Valparaíso bay swimming in the sea right in front of Muelle Prat, weather conditions permitting.
Meanwhile, in Paseo Bulnes, in downtown Santiago, the Australians from The Glue Society will present an intervention specially designed for the festival. It is “Clothesline”, a string of hanging clothes 5 meters wide by 8 meters high, which will extend for 50 meters on the pedestrian promenade. As an additional effect, the clothes will drip water.
On the esplanade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the English family Sand in Your Eye will use 120 tons of sand to create the work “We”, which consists of sculpting representative faces of the original peoples of America. This work will be completed during the festival.
The fourth intervention, called “ Patrimonial Mural”, will be in charge of the Antofagasta artist Luis Núñez, who will paint a hyperrealist mural of 300 square meters, set in the year 1900, on Rosal Street in Paseo Lastarria.
The fifth work will be “ Chilensis Butterflies”, by Chilean artist Valeria Merino, winner of the #IdeasTorreEntel contest, an initiative in which more than 40 projects participated. Merino’s intervention will consist of five giant butterflies that will perch on the Entel Tower as if this symbol of technology were a tree in a concrete forest.
“We always seek to draw people’s attention in a positive way, interrupting the routine and everyday spaces through urban art. That’s why people appreciate this event, which is free access, and which invites to look at the environment as something closer and inclusive” ,commented Payo Söchting, creative director of the festival.
Entel’s CEO, Antonio Büchi, invited everyone to experience this new version of the festival. “We are very happy to be able to inspire and surprise the people of Santiago again and to bring Hecho en Casa Entel to Valparaíso for the first time this year. We invite young and old to be part of this festival, to connect with their city, the landscape, art and culture”.
Each urban intervention will have a selfie point, which will recommend the best angle to take a picture next to the different works.