Cecilia Vicuña Joins Xavier Hufkens Gallery  – RisePEI

Cecilia Vicuña, famend multi-hyphenate artist and a recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on the 2022 Venice Biennale, has joined Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. Her first presentation with the gallery can be in 2023. She’s going to proceed to be represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London.

In a press release, Hufkens known as Vicuña “a visionary artist in addition to a pioneering activist…Her work responds to international points which can be notably pressing at this time, a pertinence which is mirrored in the institutional recognition she has earned so deservedly. I am proud to start working with resembling vigorously delicate, conscious and singular artist as Cecilia.”

Born in Santiago de Chile, however a longtime resident of america, the 74-year-old artist has obtained a surge of late-career acclaim in recent times: in 2019 she was nominated for the Guggenheim Museum’s prestigious Hugo Boss Prize and was awarded Spain’s most distinguished artwork award, Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas. Her work options prominently within the Museum of Fashionable Artwork’s rehang and is at the moment the topic of a solo exhibition on the Guggenheim, “Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene,” her first within the metropolis.

Vicuña has a prolific, wide-ranging physique of labor—with an affinity for ephermal supplies with an improvised have an effect on—that has made her tough to categorise. In an uncommon transfer, the Guggenheim present primarily options her exuberant work and painted screens, although a number of of her ethereal combined media mobiles dominate a first-floor gallery.

Earlier than her visible artwork was embraced by establishments worldwide, Vicuña was identified foremost as a poet and, because the Sixties, has been an ardent activist pushed by the intersection of environmental peril and unchecked capitalism.

In 2019, greater than 1.2 million individuals protested within the streets of Santiago towards class disparities and the rising value of dwelling in Chile. Vicuña was among the many artists to publicly rally on the facet of the demonstrators and, in a press release to ARTnews, mentioned “the fantastic thing about this motion is that it feels as an awakening expressed in joyful and peaceable huge protests rising in each nook.”

In March, she obtained the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement alongside Katharina Fritsch, making her the primary artist of Latin American descent to win the award in years. (Each artists are included within the biennial’s foremost present.) Cecilia Alemani, the curator of the biennale’s foremost exhibition, mentioned in a assertion that Vicuña had “travelled her personal path, doggedly, humbly, and meticulously, anticipating many latest ecological and feminist debates and envisioning new private and collective mythologies.”