Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Cecilia Vicuana: About to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change. The first major U.S. solo exhibition of the influential Chilean-born artist is comprised of Vicuana's multidisciplinary work in performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and site-specific installations over the course of the past 40 years. Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence of 1960s conceptualism and radical climate change-the exhibition examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility. Operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile, Vicuana's practice weaves together disparate disciplines as well as communities-with shared relationships to land and sea, and to the economic and environmental disparities of the 21st century."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña's artist's book on the politics of the sea</strong></p><p>Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, <i>About to Happen</i> serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In this artist's book, Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña weaves personal and ancestral memory while summoning the collective power to confront the economic disparities and environmental crises of the 21st century. <p/>Collecting the detritus that washes up on shore, Vicuña assembles out of the refuse tiny <i>precarios</i> and <i>basuritas</i>--little sculptures held together with nothing more than string and wire, which she sometimes makes as offerings to be reclaimed by the sea. <p/><i>About to Happen</i> traces a decades-long practice that has refused categorical distinctions and thrived within the confluences of conceptual art, land art, feminist art, performance and poetry. Vicuña's nuanced visual poetics--operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile--transforms the discarded into the elemental, paying acute attention to the displaced, the marginalized and the forgotten.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>For over Five Decades, Cecilia Vicuña Has Made Prescient, Rebellious Art.--Claire Mullen "Artsy"<br><br>The works draw attention to the most basic details of the environment, and there is an implication in them that once you are acutely aware of any object, you are responsible for its welfare... Awareness of a stick leads to awareness of a tree, then to land and the people who occupy it, to the fragility of entire cultures.--Ray Mark Rinaldi "New York Times"<br>
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