Papelucho

Sculpture, childhood, and Chilean popular memory

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Papelucho is a 2022 sculpture based on the character from Chilean children's literature. The figure holds a pencil and notebook, attributes associated with writing, imagination, and everyday experience narrated from childhood.

The work was commissioned by the Corporación Cultural de La Florida and managed by Mauricio Bascuñán. It is the first completed piece in pugliEGGSe, a projected sculptural line for reinterpreting recognizable characters from popular culture. No other works in that line have yet been completed.

Official photograph of the Papelucho sculpture — Official photograph of the work.

Detail of Papelucho with pencil and notebook — Detail of the character and attributes.

TECHNICAL SHEET

Year: 2022
Type: Sculpture
Material: Pigmented resin
Dimensions: 120 × 60 × 60 cm
Commission: Corporación Cultural de La Florida
Status: Work destroyed; an extensive photographic and documentary record survives.

MEMORY OF THE WORK

The material loss does not close the work. Its documentation reconstructs scale, color, posture, and process, preserving the first formulation of the pugliEGGSe line.

Meme Painting is another series within Images of the Popular. It remains in development and, because it has no completed works, is not presented here as finished production.

Images of the Popular

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