Cristián Silva at The Blanton Museum of Art

Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:15

Austin, TX - Cristián Silva was trained in the field of printmaking in the late 1980s and part of the first generation of artists from Chile's post-dictatorship era, Cristián Silva has become a renowned artist on the Latin American contemporary art scene.

For the Blanton Museum, Silva is creating Black Sun-Green Flamingo, a new and challenging large-scale pictorial piece, where the sentimental and the social are juxtaposed.  Deeply concerned by the dramatic dynamics of frontier politics along the Rio Grande area, Silva has reached out to a Texan local album cover of the early 1980s to comment on the dreams of the Promised Land held by people from both sides of the border.  Based on this slightly kitschy and surreal image source, Silva elaborates on the poetics of migration.

Curated by Cecilia Brunson, director of Incubo/Santiago del Chile, and former assistant curator of Latin American art for the Blanton Museum of Art.  On exhibition until 31 December, 2006. 

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