CENTURIÓN, Feliciano; MARTA, Karen (ed.); IGLESIAS LUKIN, Aimé (ed.)
Feliciano Centurión

Through the embroidery and painting of vernacular objects such as blankets and aprons, Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión (1962-96) rendered poetic readings of his youth in the tropics, his experiences of love in the metropolis and his reflections prior to his untimely death from AIDS-related illness.

Since his death, Centurión’s work has been largely overlooked, only recently receiving recognition. This book traces the short but vibrant career of a remarkable artist. With essays and reproductions, it attends to Centurión’s stories of the self—his love life, his disease—but also stories of a cultural body searching for a new political expression in a changing world. [publishers’ note]

Texts by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Ticio Escobar, Jimena Ferreiro, Franciso Lemus, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, et al.

Published by ISLAA / Americas Society, 2021
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