<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=2004.173&output=rss2 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:51:17 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Cordero sacrificado [Sacrificed Lamb]]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2889

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Creator

Feliciano Centurión

Title

Cordero sacrificado [Sacrificed Lamb]

Date Created

1996

Spatial Coverage

236.2 cm x 130.8 cm (93 in. x 51 1/2 in.)

Identifier

2004.173

Medium

Acrylic on polyester blanket

Description

In Buenos Aires in the 1990s, a new generation of artists responded enthusiastically to the recent democratically elected government and to the air of social tolerance that came with it. Feliciano Centurión was a central figure in the Arte Light movement, known for flamboyant, irreverent works that embodied progressive attitudes about lifestyle and sexuality. By using cheap blankets as the support for large-scale paintings, he sought a new type of beauty through the language of kitsch, humor, and theatricality.

Centurión painted his most poignant and personal work, Sacrificed Lamb, the day he was diagnosed with AIDS. The timing of the work, along with the Christian symbol of the sacrificial lamb, reflects a somber undercurrent in his humor and a sense of impending mortality.

Rights Holder

Museum purchase with funds provided by Donald R. Mullins, Jr., 2004

Date

San Ignacio, Paraguay, 1962 - 1996, Buenos Aires

Type

textile

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