Airmail paintings are a hybrid between a letter and a painting. They have an epistolary body and a pictorial body. Eugenio Dittborn (Santiago de Chile, 1943) invented this device in 1983 after more than a decade of experimentation on different supports with extra-pictorial techniques with which he sought to challenge traditional easel painting.
At that time, Dittborn used materials such as grey cardboard, methacrylate, cotton, flour sacks, MDF boards and even the Atacama desert as a support for his work. Airmail paintings were designed to be folded, put into an envelope and travel through the international airmail network.
The exhibition Eugenio Dittborn. Airmail paintings is the first solo exhibition in Spain of one of the fundamental artists of Latin American conceptual art of the seventies and eighties of the last century.
