Pablo Otriz Monasterio
“Low Flying” from the serie: The Last City.
1995
Archival Pigment Print
Unique edition, certified, signed on the front and back, printed by the artist.
120 x 90 cm
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Carlos Aguirre
2023
Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.
Unique
47 x 126 cm
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Persia Campbell
Itinerary of a woman along the border “Purple Dark Room (Self-Portrait)”
2020
Archival Pigment Print
Digital Photography - Hahnemühle
Photo Rag 308g
S | Ed. 5
65 x 36 cm
L | Ed.2
135 x 75 cm
M | Ed. 3
106 x 64 cm
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Persia Campbell
Itinerary of a woman along the border “Woman, T.V. & Cat (Self-Portrait)”
2020
Archival Pigment Print
Digital Photography - Hahnemühle
Photo Rag 308g
S | Ed. 5
65 x 36 cm
L | Ed.2
135 x 75 cm
M | Ed. 3
106 x 59 cm
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Persia Campbell
Itinerary of a woman along the border: “Blue Mirror (Self-Portrait)”
2020
Archival Pigment Print
Digital Photography - Hahnemühle
Photo Rag 308g
S | Ed. 5
65 x 36 cm
M | Ed.3
106 x 59 cm
L | Ed. 2
135 x 75 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Venta da Guajolotes en la colonia Roma
1963
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
32 x 26 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Unidad Independencia
1964
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Avenida Paseo de la Reforma
1964
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Construcción Edificio Celanes
1968
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Colonia Juárez
1968
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vendedor de Pan en la Feria de San Angel
1963
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 26 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Calle Gante, Centro Histórico
1963
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Avenida Paseo de la Reforma
1964
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Construcción Estadio Azteca
1964
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Calle Donceles, Centro Histórico
1963
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Barrio de la Merced
1970
Unique
Silver gelatin analog photograph certified and produced by the artist, signed on verso.
26 x 32 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments No 8. Rubens, The Daughters of Leucippus
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments No 1. Winterhalter, Florinda.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments No 10. Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №2. Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Suppert.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №3. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Grandes Baigneuses.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №4. Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation of Christ.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №5. Caravaggio, The Beheading of St John the Baptist.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №6. Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna Litta.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №7. Andrei Rublev, Trinity.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №9. Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №11. Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Danila Tkachenko
Fragments №12. Nicolas Poussin, The Companions of Rinaldo.
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 4 + 1 A.P.
200 x 150 cm
Ed. 9 + 1 A.P.
120 x 90 cm
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Fernanda Roel
Exercises of Collaboration 2002-2024
Exercises of Collaboration
Fernanda Roel, Mexico
Hand-made artist's book of 26x26cm, with 14 archival pigment prints on cotton of 23x23cm and a text booklet in an acrylic
case.
Limited edition of 30 certified, signed and numbered copies.
Performer: Luisa Sáenz.
Collaborations of Fernanda Roel with: Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Minerva Cuevas, Gabriel Kuri, Dr. Lakra, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Pedro Reyes, Guillermo Santamarina, Melanie Smith, Sofía Táboas, Laureana Toledo & Pablo Vargas Lugo.
Texts: Ery Cámara, Arturo Delgado, María Minera y Fernanda Roel.
Editorial Design: RED
Artisanal Binding: Su Yin Wong.
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Edouard Taufenbach & Bastien Pourtout
Herbolaria de sombras 1
2023
Analog print laminated on aluminium, oak frame in plexiglass box
Ed. 3
40 x 40 cm
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Edouard Taufenbach & Bastien Pourtout
Herbolaria de sombras 2
2023
Analog print laminated on aluminium, oak frame in plexiglass box
Ed. 3
40 x 40 cm
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Persia Campbell: Cabaret del Norte
The work of the young photographer Persia Campbell (Cd. Juárez, 1993) has focused on processing the traumatic experience of quotidian violence as an inhabitant of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in recent decades, and the issue of feminicide in particular, through a series of photographs that analyze and reconfigure the visual culture of the area.
On the basis of her formation in the visual arts as well as in design for film production, Campbell recreates environments from earlier times in Ciudad Juárez through carefully mounted sets, documented in photographs with a dense symbolic content, that recall the style, imagery, and use of color in the hyperrealist paintings by Audrey Flack and in the images of female roles created by Cindy Sherman in the 1970s.
The disquieting images from the photographic series titled Itinerary of a Woman on the Border (2020) and Reminiscences of Ciudad Juárez (2021) contribute to our awareness of the links between collective memory and personal experience, questioning the normalization of violence and its instauration through the construction of imaginaries based on women’s bodies and fictions regarding female identity. In her most recent series titled Ficheras: the Last Cabaret, Campbell seeks to reappropriate from an intimate perspective the representations of the women in the cinematic genre known as Fichera films, that are characterized by misogyny and exploitation of the female body. -Karen Cordero Reiman, Phd. Art Historian, Yale. (Fragment)
Persia Campbell. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua 1993. Artist, photographer, filmmaker and art director, she has a Master in Creative Processes-Artistic Direction from UNAM and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez. She is a member of the National Young Creators System (2020-2021 FONCA).
Persia won First Place IPA (International Photography Awards, NYC), Lens Culture Art Photography Awards 2021, “Female in Focus” from the British Journal of Photography 185; and “Colors-Life framer” (Photography alliance by National Geographic, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Forbes selected by Amaro, Center Pompidou).
Her work has been published by global press including The Guardian and has been exhibited at the Image Center Museum of the Ministry of Culture and the San Ildefonso Museum in FONCA's “Creation in Motion.” ALMANAQUE-fotofotografia (Colima 101, Roma Norte) is currently presenting her first individual exhibition that can be visited during Zona MAco week and all February.
Fernanda Roel: Exercises of Collaboration
Is an artistic project of collective exploration created by photographer Fernanda Roel between 2002 and 2009, integrating her craft with contemporary visual practices as well as with the human body.
Roel invited 14 artists who were part of the same generation and who did not typically work with the human form, looking to remove them from their usual creative dynamics. Drawing from their own individual languages, each of the artists proposed a concept for a photo session, all of which were interpreted by the same model. Roel captured every interpretation in square format analogue photographs using a Hasselblad camera.
A careful selection of pictures from each session ‒ their printing, and design ‒ turn each of the 30 copies of this artist’s book into a work that values processes and collaborations. The book is also the embodiment of the concepts and ideas of a generation of artists.
Fernanda Roel. (Mexico City, 1975) is a photographer and creative director. With degrees in Photography from the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades, London institute (UK) and Fashion Design from the Degli Abíti Artistic Studio (Mexico), Fernanda has taken more than a dozen courses and postgraduate degrees in photography and other artistic disciplines , including: Photo-Book Workshop taught by Bruno Ceschel, Gonzalo Golpe, Ramón Pez at Galeria Hydra (2016); Comprehensive Photography Program, taught by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Laureana Toledo, Katya Brailovsky and Silvia Gruner at the Image Center (2001); as well as Scenography and costumes for theater at Central Saint Martins, UK (1998).
Fernanda's fluid practice in diverse photographic styles, characterized by passionate care for every detail, has allowed her to carry out countless projects for leaders in the music, hotel, television, automotive and global media industries, including editorial studios for Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar. With more than two decades of photography, Fernanda's artistic work has been exhibited in more than fifteen individual and group exhibitions at El Eco Experimental Museum, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera Veracruz, ABC DF on Paseo de la Reforma and the "Centro de la Imagen".
Bob Schalkwijk: Mexicans 60’s
Chilangos have and always been diverse, dynamic, hard-working, modern, traditional. Seems that Bob's portrait compositions capture artistic styles of the 20th century: impressionistic vignettes of citizens at work, constructions such as cubist paintings, bread sculptures, and installative market stalls. There are women working, children at play and the daily presence of the countryside in the city that in the 20th and 21st centuries we celebrate in the great Tenochtitlán. –Arturo Delgado
“In 1959 Bob Schalkwijk arrived in Mexico City, one that looked very different from ours yet very similar. Continuing the tradition of urban photographers, Bob skillfully portrayed how the Mexican capital was transforming to become a great modern capital. The architecture, the street vendors, the press, the traffic and the avenues, the new housing units and the ways of using the public space are, in Bob's work, a series of layers that make up the city that, despite having different rhythms and different ages coexist at all times. This is Mexico City, a series of geological and social layers built together anachronistically.
Mexico City is made of layers, it can be seen in the Mexica stones that support New Spain buildings, in the brand new cars next to Porfirian buildings or in modern murals on houses made of sheet metal; it is seen in its inhabitants, pilgrims, tourists, chilangos and in the very few photographers who have been able to decipher it, one of them is Bob Schalkwijk.” -Aldo Solano Rojas. PhD. History of Art, UNAM. (Fragment)
Bob Schalkwijk. Rotterdam, 1933, lives in Mexico since 1959. One of the most prolific photographers in the world with a profession that covers very diverse styles and themes for global press, industry and governments around the world, Schalkwijk's work is found in the collections of the national photography museum Centro de la Imagen, Museo Amparo , the MoCA, the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as well as in prestigious private collections.
On the occasion of his 90th birthday, in 2023 ALMANAQUE-fotográfica gallery presented his successful individual exhibition: “D.F. 1960's” curated by PhD Aldo Solano Rojas. The Mexican Ministry of Culture dedicated a major individual exhibition at the Image Center and Las Rejas de Chapultepec, exhibiting as well his work in Mexican national venues and the Los Pinos Cultural Center. Currently his work is shown at Palacio de Bellas Artes Museum in the exhibition Mexichrome, curated by PhD. James Oles.
Danila Tkachenko: Fragments
For this series (world premier by Almanaque at Zona Maco) Tkachenko selected a set of ancient paintings—in his words: from the pre-digital period—that describe tragedies with female protagonists. Then he made reprographs and cut them into fragments, to build large installations in the salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia to be photographed.
In his staged photographies, Tkachenko erases the context of the works painted by masters of the 17th and 19th centuries, to redeem those portrayed: Florinda and her companions are saved from the conspiracy, the daughters of Leucippus are saved from the abduction by Castor and Pollux, while Sardanapulus is extinguished from the painting which depicts his tyrannic desire to destroy his empire upon his death announcement. Afterwards, in Tkachenko's reinterpretations of the mythological History, the survivors are ultimately women.
At the beginning of his career, Tkachencko photographed the frozen vestiges of the Soviet era in his multi-award-winning series Restricted Areas. Then, for his later series Monuments, he built elaborate land-art installations covering Orthodox churches with black plastic or burned huge Russian symbols for Motherland in the middle of the vast Russian countryside. For his series Heroes he unearthed the bones of political dissidents and for Oasis, he staged the promise of the path to Eden with haunting processions in the Qatari desert. With his practice he reconstructs History in his own symbolic, monumental and heraldic terms.
Danila Tkachenko, Russia, 1989. (Lives as a refugee artist in Italy). In May 2022, Tachenko started his project Unsuccessful Action by placing 140 blue and yellow smoke grenades in the Kremlin fortress as a protest against the war between Russia and Ukraine. The authorities boycotted the pacifist action and opened a judicial process against him, since then he lives in Italy as a refugee artist.
A graduate of the Rodchenko School of Photography in Moscow, Tkachenko is a winner of the World Press Photo, European Publishers Award, LensCulture Exposure, Voices Off Festival Arles, Burn Magazine, Foam Talent Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 30 under 30 by Magnum Photo and The Center Choice Award, (2014-2018) among many others.
With fond interest in History, mother-land, religion and monumentality, his work belongs to some of the most important photography collections in the world, and has been shown and reviewed by BBC Culture, The Guardian, El País, The British Journal of Photography and The New York Times.
Edouard Taufenbach et Bastien Portout: “Herbolaria de Sombras“
The couple explores the places that inspire them: gardens, forests, paths or seemingly everyday situations that reveal themselves to their observation. In this process, one of them holds a white cloth to hide the landscape and isolate the supposedly captivating detail. The fabric serves as an easel for the canvas, with only hands and legs in the image of one of them. The other, facing the scene, frames it with the analog camera (Rolleiflex) and shoots. Then they change roles; the photographer becomes the interpreter and the interpreter becomes the photographer. The alternation between these two actions blurs the kinship of the work. The result of shared sensitivity, it is, for them, an answer to the question that every collective faces: how to co-create together.
Beyond this collaborative creation between two individuals, there is also a collaboration with nature. Sometimes the white fabric bursts with brightness, and other times, it becomes saturated with shadows. In the infinite variation of projections, this configuration reveals the impermanence of the world, the fragile nature of things and the vain attempt to suspend time.
Edouard Taufenbach et Bastien Pourtout. France, 1988 & 1982.
Taufenbach is Master in Arts & Digital Media and Bachelor in Cinema by La Sorbonne (FR). Pourtout is Master in Photography & Contemporary Art by Paris VIII – Saint-Denis FR and Master in Social History at Paris X – Nanterre (FR). During the 2020’s confinement Taufenbach started to work in duo with Pourtout after winning the pioneer artistic residence La Villa Medici in Rome, where they created Le Bleu du Ciel, winning afterwards with the resulting series the Swiss Life Award for Contemporary Art 2021.
Taufenbach’s is a guest artist at UAL: Camberwell College of Arts, and participated in the group exhibition Moving The Image. In February 2020, ALMANAQUE showed Taufenbach's work in the exhibition Mirage, curated by Arturo Delgado. The same year release his book L’Image dans le miroir edited by Maison L'Artier Paris. They have exhibited in national museums and international shows.
Their work as has been published by BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Vogue Paris, Vanity Fair, The British Journal of Photography, L'Œil de la Photographie and Le Figaro among many others.
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: Low Flying , from the series: The Last City
The last city is no other than Mexico City. The photographer's gaze takes one of the classics of Latin American photography of recent years to show us what the eye seeks and detects without putting us in any position, only in doubt of what photography itself offers us.
In his iconic image Volando Bajo, which Pablo himself produced this one displayed as a unique copy especially for the 20th anniversary of Zona Maco: “a gang boy flies to cross a ditch. A gap, a void. The lad looks down, towards the bottom, without fear, rather amused… His leather jacket with zippers and rings with a Robert Smith pin from The Cure pinned to the lapel, no shirt: the skinny and naked torso exposed, the tight pants with tears at the knees. Military or lumberjack boots above the ankles. From a small ledge the young man jumped under the threat of a huge gun painted on the wall.
Everything seems to indicate that punks, born from the working class of England as a rejection of the poor norms of their parents, have found their equivalent among us. Our gang kids are also a little helpless. - Hernán Lara Zavala (fragment)
Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio. México, 1952. Author, editor, photography promoter, teacher and artist. Over the course of his forty-year career, Ortiz-Monasterio has exhibited in numerous exhibitions around the world. In México, his work has received solo exhibitions at the Palacio Bellas Artes, the Museo de Arte Moderno de México and the Centro de la Imagen, to name just a few, as well as national museums in the US, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Spain, United Kingdom, France, Holland, Portugal and Italy.
Founder of the National Museum of Photography of Mexico "Centro de la Imagen", Ortiz-Monasterio's work belongs to the collections of MoMA NYC, Centre Pompidou, MACBA, Centro de la Imagen & el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes among many others .
His book "The Last City", with a text by José Emilio Pacheco (Miguel de Cervantes Award), won the Best Photo Book at the Spring Photo Fest Barcelona and The Gold Eye Award at the Festival des Trois Continents.
In 2019, Ortiz-Monasterio was awarded with the Medal for Photographic Merit from the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH), the highest recognition in the discipline.
Carlos Aguirre: Metagraphies
Just as László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the so-called optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphies of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation.
Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable.
These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world. –Arturo Delgado
Carlos Aguirre, México, 1948,
Industrial Designer with a master's degree from the School of Art and Design in London, UK; he represented Mexico at the Art Biennales of Paris 1982, São Paulo 1985 and 1998. A recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship, he is a dean professor at Mexico’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
His career as a visual artist includes painting, sculpture, installation and photography, characterized by the constant search of new languages, the questioning of disciplines boundaries, the experimentation with materials and techniques as well as politics and Mexican history.
His work has been shown around the world. In 2015, the National Museum of Modern Art of Mexico organized him the individual retrospective: "Risk Zone" curated by art historian Pilar García, University Museum of Contemporary Art, MUAC-UNAM. In 2023 the Mexican Culture Seminar dedicated the individual exhibition to him: Obra Reciente. Currently, his iconic work welcomes visitors to the MUAC UNAM group exhibition “Genealogies and Dissidences.” This 2024, his retrospective book will be published: Risk Zone edited by the UAM.
The constant search for formal experimentation and the rigor in the invoice of his uninterrupted artistic production, place Carlos as one of the most innovative artists and precursors of conceptual and contemporary art in Latin America.
