art and poetry journal · 2022

Cecilia Vicuña

Large figure with revolutionary scenes
La mulata costeña de Colombia (The Mulata Costeña of Colombia) ca. 1977
Oil on canvas 47 x 39 1/4 inches (119.4 x 99.7 cm). Courtesy the artist,
Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London, and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), has been based in New York for the last forty years. The Guggenheim Museum in New York celebrated her work in 2022 with “Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene,” a retrospective of her visual art. Her voice is heard in the curation; the storytelling in wall text for each piece; and the insertion, between two phases of her work, of a group of the Guggenheim’s Kandinsky paintings which she cited as an influence. https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/cecilia-vicuna-spin-spin-triangulene