CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/10/2019

'Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen' is Back in Stock!

Featured image, from Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña’s “Precarious Improvisation,” Con cón, Chile (2009), is reproduced from About to Happen, Vicuña’s poetic, avidly sought-after artist’s book/exhibition catalog, back in stock at last from Siglio Press. “Respectfully sharing a spiritual approach with her indigenous sources, Vicuña sees herself as the receptacle of ancient knowledge, which she then translates into a very contemporary idiom,” Lucy Lippard writes. “Her art is not easily categorized. She’s neither a poet who makes art, nor an artist who writes poetry. Her art is a naturally fused amalgam of word and act in which she not only translates, but becomes an archaeologist of language, excavating, dissecting, recreating meaning and communicating it to the inhabitants of today.” Photograph is by James O’Hern.