Coinciding with the opening of her solo exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, this presentation features selected works from Cecilia Vicuña’s career and illustrates the interconnectivity between visual art and poetry at the core of her expansive, interdisciplinary practice.
Among the works exhibited here is La Noche (2009), a 20-part series fusing poetry and drawing, and Caracol Azul (Blue Snail) (2017), an installation made from unspun wool. Sacred in Andean belief systems, raw unspun wool is both a life-giving material in Andean culture and a vital, enduring component of Vicuña’s decades-long artistic career.
The installation features a selection of Vicuña’s signature precarios–an ongoing body of work dating back to the 1960s. Incorporating natural and found materials, these small and delicate sculptures reflect the artist’s sustained exploration of ephemerality and impermanence. Observing the shared Latin root word of both “precarious” and “prayer,” Vicuña has likened these precarios to an intimate form of devotion.
Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from May 27 through September 5.