Artists
Aprofound humanist concern underlies the work of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Shibboleth, her most recent work exhibited at the Turbine Hall in London between October 2007 and April 2008, reiterates this concern. As the artist states, this work makes reference to the deep divisions that prevail in the present-day world.
John Perreault: “At the end of the 1960s, when we were part of a group which included Scott Burton and Vito Acconci, among others, it seemed that your forte was to invent a basic innovation and, based on it and on the “ism” it generated, begin to construct your work. ¿Do you still believe that is what must be done?”
EC: “Yes”(1)
Inscribed within the conceptualist trends on account of his reflexive lineage, geographically and culturally anchored in the contradictions of a Catholic Caribbean America, Héctor Fuenmayor is a Venezuelan artist whose oeuvre is difficult to situate both within local and foreign historiographical frameworks.
Besides, even when the subject is different, people always paint the same painting. - Andy Warhol. THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Jorge Cabieses ́s oeuvre is one of the most transcendent within the generation that attempts to revamp the ways of seeing and making art in Peru.
