Edited by Miguel A. López. Text by Cecilia Vicuña, Miguel A. López, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Catherine de Zegher, José de Nordenflycht, Marisol de la Cadena, Camila Marambio.
An edifying immersion into Vicuña’s creative wellspring as well as her decolonization and ecofeminist ideals
Beautifully designed, with a special reverence for her humanitarian heart, Dreaming Water is the most thorough monograph dedicated to the work of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña to date. Vicuña coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s as a new category for her works composed of debris and structures that disappear in the landscape, and which also include her quipus (“knot” in Quechua), envisioned as poems in space. Dreaming Water brings together over 200 works—including paintings, drawings, screenprints, collages, textiles, videos, photographs, installations, poetry, artist books and performances—created throughout the artist’s remarkable career. It also features several stimulating texts—a lengthy epistolary piece by curator and editor Miguel A. López as well as new essays by anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, curator Catherine de Zegher and art historian José de Nordenflycht. Vicuña herself contributes two texts, reflecting on her drawings from the “Palabrarmas” project and the activism of the group Artists for Democracy, which she cofounded in 1974. A rousing conversation between Vicuña, anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena and curator Camila Marambio also figures in the book, blending the artist’s voice with those who are experts in fields pertinent to her practice. Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world. She was elected a foreign honorary member of the United States Academy of Arts and Letters and also received the Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale.
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“I want to begin talking about the creation of a transnational feeling in the nineteen-sixties. Now that may sound like an ideal, but in the sixties if you were a young artist like I was, a teenager, you were part of a shared feeling, it was a body sensation where you felt cosmically united with the heavens, with the earth, with everything that was happening in the world. The word ‘global’ didn’t exist, but that was how we existed—and this is because the military coup [in Chile] had not yet occurred. We didn’t have the sense that ‘this is Argentina, this is Chile, this is the border, that is Europe’; we had the feeling that there was just humanity searching for itself.” Featured spreads and this quote, from a 2020 dialogue between Valerie Fraser and Cecilia Vicuña, are from the beautifully produced, 364-page new release, Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water: A Retrospective of the Future (1964–…)—the most thorough monograph on the Chilean artist, poet and ecofeminist to date. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 364 pgs / 417 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $79 ISBN: 9788419233769 PUBLISHER: RM/MNBA, Santiago de Chile/MALBA/Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo AVAILABLE: 8/6/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water A Retrospective of the Future (1964-…)
Published by RM/MNBA, Santiago de Chile/MALBA/Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo. Edited by Miguel A. López. Text by Cecilia Vicuña, Miguel A. López, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Catherine de Zegher, José de Nordenflycht, Marisol de la Cadena, Camila Marambio.
An edifying immersion into Vicuña’s creative wellspring as well as her decolonization and ecofeminist ideals
Beautifully designed, with a special reverence for her humanitarian heart, Dreaming Water is the most thorough monograph dedicated to the work of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña to date. Vicuña coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s as a new category for her works composed of debris and structures that disappear in the landscape, and which also include her quipus (“knot” in Quechua), envisioned as poems in space. Dreaming Water brings together over 200 works—including paintings, drawings, screenprints, collages, textiles, videos, photographs, installations, poetry, artist books and performances—created throughout the artist’s remarkable career. It also features several stimulating texts—a lengthy epistolary piece by curator and editor Miguel A. López as well as new essays by anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, curator Catherine de Zegher and art historian José de Nordenflycht. Vicuña herself contributes two texts, reflecting on her drawings from the “Palabrarmas” project and the activism of the group Artists for Democracy, which she cofounded in 1974. A rousing conversation between Vicuña, anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena and curator Camila Marambio also figures in the book, blending the artist’s voice with those who are experts in fields pertinent to her practice.
Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world. She was elected a foreign honorary member of the United States Academy of Arts and Letters and also received the Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale.
