Jorge Caceres

Jorge Cáceres, whose real name was Luis Sergio Cáceres Toro (Santiago April 18, 1923 - ibidem, September 21, 1949), was a poet, artist Chilean visual artist and dancer, member of the surrealist group Mandrágora.

Biography

Jorge was born into a wealthy family, being the third child, of a total of five, of Ernesto Cáceres Ramírez (brother of Guillermo Cáceres, founding member of the Colo-Colo sports club) and Sofía Toro Pérez. He completed his initial studies at the Luis Campino Institute and later continued them at the Barros Arana National Boarding School in Santiago, Chile.

On July 18, 1938, before turning fifteen, he joined the foundation of the Chilean surrealist group Mandrágora, in an event held at the University of Chile. On that occasion Enrique Gómez Correa, Braulio Arenas and Teófilo Cid called for the perpetual rebellion of the spirit, attempting to forge life as the most unexpected and amazing allegory.

From the Barros Arana boarding school, without finishing his secondary studies, Cáceres enrolled in the Dance School of the National Ballet of Chile, which was directed, at that time, by the German choreographer, Ernst Uthoff. After a few years she became one of the central figures of this classical ensemble.

He met Vicente Huidobro when he was only 16 years old. In the early periods of the 1930s, Huidobro markedly influenced young Chilean poets, as a propagator of surrealism, either through his allegorical discourse or through the avant-garde documents that he had brought from Europe, referring to the layouts and manifestos of this movement. This documentation circulated widely among the adherents of "Mandrágora", and had a notable influence on Jorge Cáceres, whom he encouraged to write his first poems and to make collages, photomontages and calligrams. Cáceres participated, in 1941 and 1943, in two exhibitions, with Braulio Arenas, in Santiago de Chile. He subsequently exhibited his works, individually, at the Galerie Bard in Paris, in 1948.

He died on September 21, 1949, in his apartment at 314 Lira Street, in Santiago de Chile, where he lived alone, apparently from a domestic accident in the bathroom, which was not sufficiently clarified and which could have been an attack. heart attack or suicide since the autopsy report indicated: Acute toxemia, poisoning due to gas inhalation.

Work

• Rene or celestial mechanics (1941)
• Free Pass (1941)
• Monument to birds (1942)
• On the path of the great polar pyramid (1942).
• The Incubator Frac (1946)
• Unpublished Texts (1979). Ludwig Zeller Posthumous Compilation
• Jorge Cáceres, poetry found (2002). Compilation of Guillermo García, Pedro Montes, Mario Artigas and Mauricio Barrientos (Pentagrama Editores).

In anthologies

• 13 Chilean poets (1948) by Hugo Zambelli
• Forty-one young poet from Chile (1943) by Pablo de Rokha;
• Critical anthology of the new Chilean poetry (1957) by Jorge Elliott
• Atlas of the poetry of Chile (1958) by Antonio de Undurraga.