In our August 2022 limited-edition cover story, we profile Chilean artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña, who has spent half a century challenging the status quo and is, at last, getting due re...
entirely. She has only recently returned to the medium, reclaiming her history through reimagined versions of significant earlier works, driven by the lost paintings of her past. ‘Sometimes I wish they still existed, but I think an awareness of the precarious nature of our existence imbued everything that I did all along.’
‘More than a year ago, before knowing exactly how the quipu was going to be, she asked for some silent time for herself in the High Gallery. This allowed her to use the Guggenheim spiral as a connector, connecting her with Earth and sky, and incorporating energy and millennial wisdom into the work,’ recalls Pablo León de la Barra, who co-curated the show with Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães.
Courtesy the artist; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in his home, painted over the name ‘Karl Marx’, and replaced it with ‘Charles Darwin’ , an amendment since reversed. 1973, oil on canvas, Tate, Purchased with funds provided by Catherine Petitgas, 2017. Above:1972 oil on canvas, Solomon R.
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