Sergio Vega
Sergio Vega was born 1959 BirthBuenos Aires, Argentina.
Lives and works in HomeGainesville, FL, USA.
Categories: Multimedia Architecture Installation art
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Paradiso en el Nuevo Mundo’
Sergio Vega creates artworks which address both contemporary and historical systems of representation in the Americas. The artist has specifically taken the ever-evolving notion of paradise, a garden of eden, an ideal natural world, as a reoccuring point of departure for his work…
or the past ten years, Sergio Vega has developed a project titled "El Para’so en el Nuevo Mundo" [Paradise in the New World]. Based on a book of the same name written by Antonio de Leon Pinelo in 1650, Vega’s project includes a growing number of photographs, sculptures, videos and text-based works that document his journeys to Pinelo’s paradise, located by Vega in modern day Brazil. Vega aligns Pinelo with Dante, who traveled through Hell and Purgatory to arrive in the celestial paradise. And like Dante and Pinelo, the artist has encountered people and places of unexpected historical and social significance…
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The Golden Agen with Mosquitoes
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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