Chile.- The Dos de Mayo Art Center in Madrid presents the first retrospective exhibition in Spain of Cecilia Vicuña

MADRID, 19 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Dos de Mayo Art Center of the Community of Madrid (CA2M) has presented the exhibition ‘Cecilia Vicuña. Veroír el Fracaso ‘, organized jointly by Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) in Rotterdam and by the center itself, which hosts the first retrospective of the Chilean creator in Spain

The exhibition, which can be visited between February 20 and July 11, also has the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of the Government of Chile, as reported by the Community of Madrid in a statement.

The presentation was attended this Friday by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, accompanied by the Chilean Ambassador to Spain, Roberto Ampuero. “It is a great satisfaction to present this retrospective of Cecilia Vicuña, an absolute figure of Latin American art on the international scene and one of the greatest representatives of artistic performance,” the minister praised.

Since the 1960s, Cecilia Vicuña has posed a radical perspective on the relationship between art and politics through her writing and artistic production. Something that has been developing in different parts of the world, since he left Chile for London in 1972, until his establishment in the United States from 1980.

His work is built from words, images, environments, and a combination of languages, media, and techniques. The exhibition, curated by the Peruvian Miguel A. López, brings together more than a hundred pieces that are shown for the first time in Spain in which his commitment to themes that include eroticism, colonial legacies, liberation struggles, happiness is reflected. collective, indigenous thought and environmental devastation.

PIONEER OF CONCEPTUAL ART

This visual artist and writer is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Chile. His practice focuses on performances, painting, sculpture, and videos. He studied at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Chile and later did postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts at the University College.

Also, she founded the group of artists and poets Tribu No and was co-founder of Artists for Democracy in London, an organization of artists dedicated to creating solidarity projects with the then called Third World.

Vicuña began painting in the mid-1960s and was influenced by Andean and mestizo painting that was produced in the Cuzqueña School in the 16th and 17th centuries, in which the iconographic types of European art were appropriated to preserve Andean beliefs.

With these influences, Vicuña’s paintings included naked women protesting in the streets, references to animism, Andean philosophy, folklore, and popular myths, as well as depictions of important left-wing figures and feminist and civil rights activists.

Her work is linked to political resistance, feminist and sociological methods, dialogues with indigenous culture and with ecological justice permeate her practice.

In addition, they have detailed that their works are part of museums such as the Tate of London, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Chile, the Museum of Art of Lima (MALI) and the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) of Santiago de Chili. Her most recent group exhibitions include ‘Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985’, presented at the Hammer Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2019, he won the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts awarded in Spain by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

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