The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile Celebrating its 70th Anniversary

Seventy years of assembling a historically important collection are being celebrated this year with the Santiago de Chile’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s first Catalog Raisonné. The MAC (Museo de Arte Contemporanea) is run by the University of Chile Faculty of Arts and maintains a collection of nearly 3,000 pieces, including approximately 1,000 engravings, 600 paintings, 100 drawings, watercolors and sketches and some 80 sculptures. The MAC’s collection dates from the late 19th Century to the present. It includes internationally recognized artists such as Isamu Noguchi, David Batchelor and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Roberto Matta, Nemesio Antúñez and Matilde Pérez are a few of the Chilean artists represented.