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>GUILLERMO DEISLER
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>Dear friends,
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>On October 21st. it will be 10 years since the death of one of the most important and influential artists and poets of the 60's in Latin America, the Chilean Guillermo Deisler (1940 - 1995).
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>A multiple artist, he expressed himself through a variety of mediums: graphics, visual poetry, mail art, state design and, above all, he stood out for his exceptional engraving skills, for which he was regarded as one of the world's best.
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>He too will be remembered for his work as a printer. Not only because of the excellence of his "handmade" editions, especially those created in Chile (Ediciones Mimbre), but also for UNI/vers, a magazine made through artistic cooperation and interaction which delivered 35 issues and brought together hundreds of international artists of varied techniques and aesthetic roots.
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>Guillermo Deisler's singular situation came as a result of cultural interweaving: that of his German and Chilean ancestors, the mixture of indigenous and conquering cultures; the Araucanian and Mapuche indians, the Creoles... following this, his discovery of the ancient Greek/Latin culture during his exile in Bulgary and, finally, of the German culture. All these expressions reunite and expand in Deisler to make him a universal being, the "networker" prototype in which all cultures coexist in a sort of individual multiculturality, notwithstanding the seeming contradiction.
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>The aim of this letter is to encourage you to promote actions to honor his memory and, above all, stimulate the debate regarding his life: liberty, frontiers, limits. None other could be the meaning of his verse: "I sometimes get tired of being a foreigner", or his favourite symbol, the feather, an emblem of the freedom which "crosses all frontiers", or the very name of his utopia -UNI/vers- aimed at the unification of humanity.
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>Fraternal greetings
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>Estimados amigos,
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>El pr�ximo 21 de Octubre de este a�o se cumplir�n los 10 a�os del fallecimiento uno de los artistas y poetas m�s importantes e influyentes de la generaci�n de los 60s en Am�rica Latina, el chileno Guillermo Deisler (1940 - 1995).
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>Multifac�tico, se vali� de los m�s variados soportes: la gr�fica, la poes�a visual, el arte correo, la escenograf�a y, sobre todo, se destac� por su excepcional t�cnica de grabador, por la que fue considerado uno de los mejores del mundo.
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>Tambi�n se le recordar� por su labor editorial. No s�lo por la excelencia de sus ediciones "hechas a mano", sobre todo en su etapa chilena, v�a Ediciones Mimbre sino, adem�s, por su revista UNI/vers, con 35 n�meros realizados bajo el signo de la cooperaci�n e interacci�n art�stica que nucle� a cientos de creadores internacionales de la m�s variada t�cnica y formaci�n.
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>La singular situaci�n vivida por Guillermo Deisler lo ubica como el fruto y encuentro de m�ltiples culturas: la de sus ancestros alemanes y chilenos, la mezcla de culturas aut�ctonas y las culturas conquistadoras; los indios araucanos, los mapuches, los criollos... despu�s el encuentro con las milenarias culturas greco-latinas en su exilio b�lgaro y, finalmente, la cultura germana. En Deisler se concentran y se expanden todas esas culturas generando un ser universal, el prototipo de "networker" en el cual conviven todas esas expresiones en una suerte de pluriculturalidad individual, pese a la aparente contradicci�n.
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>El objetivo de esta carta es animarles a promover eventos en honor a su memoria y, sobre todo, a reanimar el debate en torno al tema de su vida: los espacios, las fronteras, los l�mites. No otra cosa podr�a significar su verso: "A veces me canso de ser extranjero" o su objeto preferido, la pluma, s�mbolo de la libertad que "atraviesa todas las fronteras" o el propio nombre su utop�a, UNI/vers, hacia la unidad del g�nero humano.
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>Fraternalmente,
