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Feliciano Centurión. I Am Awake

24 Nov 2018 – 4 Jan 2019

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Cecilia Brunson Projects

London, United Kingdom

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Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Feliciano Centurión in London. Centurión is one of twelve individual artist shows highlighted in the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo in 2018. The Paraguayan artist, who died from the complications of AIDS in 1996, was a central figure of the Arte Light movement of the late 80s, linked to the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. These artists were known for their flamboyant, irreverent works that embodied progressive attitudes to sexuality and lifestyle. They emerged in tandem with the fall of right wing dictatorships across Latin America and the Soviet bloc beyond.

For this exhibition, we are exhibiting a series of works from the artist’s estate, some of which are being shown publicly for the first time since his death. The works are taken mostly from the period of his life following his diagnosis with HIV in 1992, and consist of characteristic embroidered frazadas (blankets) along with his collection of plastic dinosaurs bedecked with crochet outfits and other items. Centurión’s work also signals a moment in Latin American consciousness, where a new generation of late ‘80s artists – influenced by postmodernism – eschewed big-idea utopianism in favour of a more layered, subjective and wry perspective. These artists embraced the peripheral and traditional as well as the popular and mass-produced. From a small-town childhood absorbing the cultural melange of Guaraní Indians and Spanish Jesuits and raised by a mother and grandmother who taught him the traditionally female activity of lacemaking, embroidery and crochet, Centurión became a shining light in this new cross-cultural consciousness.

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