The hours are Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 13 p.m. and from 14:30 p.m. to 17:30 p.m., and on Friday it closes at 16:30 p.m.

Until this Friday, December 01, the exhibition "Journey through a Dream Universe" by artist Erick Olivares Gajardo is open, the third exhibition selected for the 2023 cycle. On this occasion the artist addresses science themes in large-format works. fiction, climate change and pollution, in a selection of works created in the period of pandemic and confinement of quarantines due to Covid-19.

Erick Olivares referred to his work, highlighting that “my work is based on styles such as Baroque, Romanticism, the Brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites of England at the end of the XNUMXth century, and the dreamlike and metaphysical Surrealism of René Magritte, but I also I intervene with science fiction, with the idea of ​​possible futures in dream worlds, where human technology is displaced or even forgotten with respect to nature, where climate change has also caused changes, the product of a past without environmental awareness, such as It happens to us at this time. So I also try to give a message about the environment, but telling my work from possible futures.”

In this regard, the person in charge of cultural management of the Directorate of Liaison with the Environment and ULS Extension, Mg. Fernando Tapia highlighted that “the exhibition offers us an approach to a dystopian future, where machines failed to control the state of things, and nature dominates the surface and horizons. Erick's work proposes us to dream and establish a dreamlike perspective to travel in his paintings." Furthermore, he added that "this exhibition demonstrates that the painting technique used by the artist has been consolidated, giving the viewer all the symbolism to decode, to penetrate into a reading of his work."

With this exhibition, Erick Olivares ends a cycle that began at the Cuatro Esquinas Community and Cultural Center, continued at the Gabriela Mistral Museum in Vicuña, then at the Palace Cultural Center in Coquimbo and culminates at the University of La Serena. “I am very grateful because it helps me to be able to leave the region, which is one of the things I love most, and to be able to look for new paths so that the exhibition can be shown outside the Coquimbo Region and start generating a career in my work. Artistic for me is super important and very necessary,” the artist emphasized.

Finally, Fernando Tapia invited people to come to the ULS and see this artistic exhibition: “To the local and university community, we also invite you to visit the Exhibition Hall, to experience this "dreamlike journey", which, probably , begin a tour of national lands very soon.”

The exhibition is open to the public in the Exhibition Hall of the University of La Serena until this Friday, December 01, from 10 a.m. to 13 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m. Regarding visits by school audiences to cultural activities, they can contact María José Alzamora (This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), public and community manager, of the ULS Cultural Scene Project.

Written by Jenifer Araya, Diveuls