CECILIA VICUÑA/ SEEHEARING THE ENLIGHTENED FAILURE

This book appears in conjunction with Cecilia Vicuñas retrospective exhibition at Witte de With in Rotterdam. The comprehensive sho w highlights the wide-ranging oeuvre of this self-taught Chilean artist, poet, and filmmaker whose work in the 1970s seemed incompre hensible in an environment dominated by performances and urban interventions that drew from a Western perspective of the avant-garde . The perception that her painting is amateur, intuitive, or non-professional is closely aligned with the kind of creative act that interests ...[Llegir més]