Cecilia Vicuña

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Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña (born July 22, 1948 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean poet , sculptor , painter , installation and performance artist .

life and work

Cecilia Vicuña graduated from the Universidad de Chile with a Master of Fine Arts in 1971 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1972 to 1973 . Due to the political situation before the coup in Chile in 1973 , she went into exile . First to London, then to Colombia and finally to New York.

In the mid-1960s, Vicuña began assembling materials such as feathers, stones, plastic, wood, cables, shells and fabric as poetic fragments to create fragile, short-lived structures. She began to be interested in quipu and in the early 1970s she weaved her own knot script from unspun wool . Vicuña's surreal figurative painting of the 1970s is more personal and political than her other works. They were a direct response to the unrest in Chile and their subsequent exile.

Language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile are central themes in her work. Her artistic practice is linked to ecofeminism . She was a participant in documenta 14 in 2017 .

“Her site-specific projects are an expression of her gift for composing spatial poetry, sensitive, emotional poetry in three dimensions. Vicuña calls these special works "quipoems" - a fusion of "poem" (English for "poem") and " quipu ". "

- Dieter Roelstraete

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lehmann Maupin Biography Cecilia Vicuña , accessed on July 26, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ deutschlandfunk The story of the red thread , accessed on July 26, 2019
  3. ↑ Tate Cecilia Vicuña , accessed July 26, 2019. (English)
  4. ↑ documenta 14, daybook Cecilia Vicuña , accessed on July 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Vicuña, Cecilia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vicuña Ramírez, Cecilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean poet, sculptor, painter, installation and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile