One hundred is one color

One hundred years ago, the Bauhaus was founded, a revolutionary European school of architecture, design and art whose influence continues to this day. Resisting the ravages of World War II, some of its teachers restored the spirit of the Bauhaus at the Ulm School, where Cornelia Vargas (born Koch, 1933) appropriated the principles of concrete art cultivated by artists such as Max Bill.

One hundred is one color. Crafts, arts and mathematics 100 years after the Bauhaus, is the result of the meeting between Cornelia and the mathematician Alejandro Jofré. More than 20 paintings result from the variations between geometric shapes, numbers and colors that account for the plastic expansion of abstract concepts. A serialization programmed by computer scientist Benoit Crispin dialogues with these concepts by adding movement.

The exhibition includes a piece by the Argentine artist Karina Peisajovich and works of textile crafts made by Fresia Gangas, Adriana Tureuna and the Colchanderas Group of Itata, Ninhue and Quirihue, whose pieces demonstrate the intuitive application of numerical formulas in their production processes.

This exhibition has the support of the Goethe Institut, the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the University of Chile, the Artesanías de Chile Foundation and the Ca.Sa Foundation; Likewise, it has been curated by Catalina Valdés and Enrique Rivera, and has the conceptual depth of Amarí Peliowski and Sofía Vargas.