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Framed

On view at Locust Projects April 13 - April 20 (For access on April 20 to the 2024 Spring Fling ticket is required PURCHASE HERE)

o Artist: Gonzalo Fuenmayor

o Title: Carmen Toucans

o Year: 2024

o Medium: Charcoal on paper

o Dimensions: 40 x 26 inches

o Description: Gonzalo Fuenmayor has questioned the ideas of what a Latin American artist should be. He makes drawings and installations which persistently deal with two major topics for him: cultural hybridity and transnational identity. Concerned about the effects of modernization and progress not only on natural environments, but mostly on Latin American culture and its ways of being displayed internationally through stereotypes and common places. His aim seems to be not exclusively, to denounce banalization but also to understand its aesthetic mechanisms and cultural power. In the last years he produced large-scale charcoal drawings (of subjects such as palms, storms, royal interiors and furniture), by which he explores tropical symbols in a surreal contact with an opulent and elegant imagery. His work triggers political and sensitive responses, as its stands firmly in the vernacular and artistic tradition of ornament, deeply rooted in the subcontinent.

o Artist website or Instagram: https://dotfiftyone.com/GONZALO-FUENMAYOR-1

Courtesy of artist and DOT FIFTYONE GALLERY