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Norma Cecilia Vicuña Ramírez, visual artist and writer. She was born on July 22, 1948 in Santiago, Chile.
She studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Chile in 1971. Later in 1972 she traveled to London where she did postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts at University College.
She is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Chile. She formed a group of artists and poets called Tribu No. At the beginning of 1970 she made a series of installations and art actions related to the theme of symbols of the pre-Columbian indigenous world, nature and South American mythology in general.
In 1973 the BBC of London, made a documentary about his poetic-visual work
In his visual work he has dedicated himself to oil painting, sculpture and video production. He has also published numerous poetic works and has given conferences on art.
In 1975 she settled in Colombia where she continued her studies on American Indian popular culture and worked as a professor of Art History at the Fundación Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the course of Contemporary Latin American Poetry at the Fundación El Arte of the Universidad Libre de Bogotá.
In 1980 she moved to New York City, USA.
Most Popular Cecilia Vicuña Trailers
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08 July 2007
A performance lecture on the 1990 sculpture "Penetrable" by Jesús Soto. Poets were asked to respond to the works of artists included in the show, "The Geometry of Hope" at the Grey Art Gallery.
13 July 2009
The artist precariously films her "basuritas" made from debris as the sea removes them.
12 July 2017
Noche de las especies [Night of the Species], a video animation by Robert Kolodny based on Cecilia Vicuña's drawings from the Noche de las especies.
13 July 2021
A film by Robert Kolodny using poems and sounds of Cecilia Vicuña and auditory landscapes of musician Ricardo Gallo, telling the story of the death of the Earth's pollinating insects.
21 November 2010
In this documentary poem, Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Con, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being destroyed.
01 January 1983
A three-dimensional animation of a pre Columbian textile. The Paracas textile, 300-100 BC, was found in a tomb in the south coast desert of Perú, and is a part of the collection of The Brooklyn Museum in New York.
01 January 1980
In this performance, filmed in March 1980, Sol y Dar y Dad (Solidarity: To Give and Give Sun), one of the word-splitting, deconstructive poems Vicuña calls palabrarmas, is danced by Sofía Torres, young actors, volunteers from Corporación Colombiana de Teatro, and children at the Parque Nacional de Bogotá.
13 July 2008
A 2008 recreation of a 1979 performance gives way to a projection of the slides depicting images from the artist's archive relative to dairy crime.
01 January 1980
Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile.
01 January 2017
This performance takes place at the Puente de Cal y Canto bridge in Santiago de Chile, constructed during colonial times at the site where an Inka rope bridge had once connected the south and north of Chile.
27 June 2015
Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.
05 July 2012
Cecilia Vicuña and the Pichimuchina performed a ritual for the waters of the Mapocho River in Santiago Chile.
01 January 2014
In this "video poem," Vicuña responds to Gasland 2, a 2013 documentary by Josh Fox examining the devastating environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing in the United States.
12 July 2008
Pigments are scattered across the asphalt in Manhattan, a thread is tied by poet Cecilia Vicuña between the present and the past.
