Justo Pastor Mellado

Justo Pastor Mellado

Justo Pastor Mellado, art critic, independent curator, polemicist, fierce opponent of what he calls left-wing authoritarianism, former advisor to the Piñera Culture Council, former director of the Cerro Cárcel Cultural Park, former director of the Art School of the Catholic University and former sympathizer Mapu, has been characterized by firing "poisoned" darts. Located in the trench of art criticism that he understands as the natural substitution of political criticism, but by other means, Mellado, focuses, points and launches. The target? The cultural institutionality of the concertacionist left, the New Majority, Enrique Correa, the cultural bacheletismo of Ernesto Ottone (son) and the National Center of Contemporary Art Cerrillos, among others. "The culture for the Concertación and the New Majority has always been a tool of social control. As an Office, like Marcelo Schilling soft, where we live permanently with the threat of overflow, then to manage the tension, the subsidies are born, the black holes of the Fondart, where there is a false illusion of citizenship. " The latest criticism of the function of the visual arts venue recently inaugurated in the building of the former airfield of Cerrillos, where - as he himself says - he has displayed strong doses of "cruelty" aimed at dismantling the improvisation of a project where, in his opinion, the most clear is what "is not", have nevertheless been equally vehement attacks, being branded as "great traitor", anticipating its end as the one waiting for the "moths" that end up burning as they approach the fire and revealing their true political interest in securing some position in an eventual second Piñera government, as visual artist Arturo Duclos asserts in a relentless column at The Clinic. "As a political evil that is, he misjudged his shot and as in all his erratic trajectory, he is failing to reveal his precandidatura at the moment nobody is interested in it.He used as an excuse the creation of the National Center for Contemporary Art Cerrillos to attack directly and with his improvised henchmen the minister (Ernesto Otonne) and his team through a vicious and vicious bully, with his typical practices of discursive bullying as he has been doing in the middle of the art since the eighties when appeared on the scene ".