NEWS
Cecilia Vicuña in Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
Cecilia Vicuña is one of the featured artists in Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 opening on Friday (15 September) at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (until 31 December 2017). It then travels to the Brooklyn Museum, New York (13 April – 29 July 2018).
Benjamin Creme\’s \’Sybilline Figure\’ in Scottish Modern Art exhibition
Until 10 June 2018
A major early work by Benjamin Creme, Sybilline Figure (1943), is on view in the exhibition A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The exhibition reveals the remarkable yet relatively unknown response by Scottish artists to the development of modern art in the first half of the 20th Century.
Paule Vézelay: Spotlight at Tate Britain
April – November 2017
Paule Vézelay is the subject of a Spotlight room display at Tate Britain curated by Inga Fraser with works from Tate’s collection and from Tate Archive, together with loans of works from private collections facilitated by England & Co, who represent the Estate of the artist.
Cecilia Vicuña: Read Thread – The Story of the Red Thread for documenta 14
April 2017
Read Thread is published to coincide with Cecilia Vicuña’s installation in Athens for documenta 14, and tells the story of the sanguine thread in the artist’s work. From the 1970s to the present, Vicuña’s work has engaged with rituals involving red thread from Aboriginal Australia, South Africa, Paleolithic Europe, and pre-Columbian America. The Chilean artist’s performances, installations, paintings and drawings relate to the symbolic function of textile and language.
Read Thread documents Vicuña’s quipus – large-scale immersive installations of thread, wool and yarn that reference the pre-Columbian language of knotting, a type of weaving-as-writing. The book also includes poetic texts and narratives written by the artist especially for this project, as well as essays by documenta 14 curator Dieter Roelstraete and art historian José de Nordenflycht Concha.
Published by Sternberg Press, the book (148 pages) will be available, in English, in April 2017, at €22. ISBN 978-3-95679-322-6. Pre-order through the publisher’s website: sternberg-press.com
Cecilia Vicuña in documenta 14 – Athens and Kassel
April – July 2017
Quipu Womb (The Story of the Red Thread) is a monumental installation of Cecilia Vicuña’s new work for documenta 14 at EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art) in Athens. Her work, both a Quipu and paintings, also feature in documenta’s exhibitions in Kassel.
John Dugger presents two Ergonic Workshops
February 2017
As part of the series of events held during This Way out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect (9 February to 26 March 2017) at London’s Raven Row, American artist John Dugger gave two Ergonic Workshops over the weekend of 17-19 February. He demonstrated and discussed his Body Conductors (1969) and Perennials (1970) to reflect his participation in the significant 1972 trilogy of exhibitions curated at Gallery House by Rosetta Brooks, A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain.
Eduardo Kac: Inner Telescope and Space Poetry
November 2016
Eduardo Kac’s latest work, Inner Telescope, will be realised in outer space by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who last week began a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Pesquet will fabricate Kac’s work in zero gravity from materials found in the space station. Inner Telescope will have no top, bottom, front or back. It will be “an instrument of observation and poetic reflection, which leads us to rethink our relationship with the world and our position in the universe.”
Kac also launches his artist’s book, Space Poetry, this week in Paris.
Cecilia Vicuña: ‘Embodied Absence’ at Harvard
27 October 2016–8 January 2017
The video Sol y Dar y Dad is one of the works by by Cecilia Vicuña featured in the exhibition Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s currently at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). The exhibition, which has already travelled to Chile, is curated by Liz Munsell and organised in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.
Abbassy’s ‘Unravelling’ on tour with British Museum
October 2016
The drawing Unravelling by Samira Abbassy, acquired from England & Co by the British Museum, is currently included in the Museum’s international touring exhibition The Human Image: Masterpieces of Figurative Art from the British Museum.
Why Listen to Animals? – Cecilia Vicuña in Melbourne
29 September–22 October 2016
Chilean poet, filmmaker, artist and activist Cecilia Vicuña is one of the international figures taking part in the experimental project, Why Listen to Animals?, in Melbourne, Australia. Curators Liquid Architecture have gathered artists, musicians, scientists and historians to investigate human-animal sound via the dynamics of power, knowledge and value.
Cecilia Vicuña’s lecture-performance The Artist As… Poet will take place on Thursday 6 October. She will also be taking part in the Beast Language event on Friday 7 October.