Exhibitions

FELIPE CUSICANQUI – HUMAN GARDEN

Beauty sprouts as if it were an inevitable force, a telluric act, an earthquake that breaks out when the earth itself, the sand, dust, and stones, are asked for a clue about reality’s nature. The reality that those same materials form, a cosmic reality which is no different than everyday reality. It is a beauty born from the will of a committed artist, on a path that is guided –in more ways than one- by his history, a history forged among family legends of indigenous ancestors, in some of the most beautiful spots and fringes in which the enormous Andes Mountains leave space for human life to settle. That is Chile, a country that hangs from the Andes toward the Pacific Ocean, in South America. In a world like this, where life is sustained on that which is geologically ephemeral, Felipe Cusicanqui’s work becomes inevitable.
That which follows is no less amazing. From the beginning, this artist has focused on raw, coarse, dirty materials, insisting with straw, animal hair, dry plants, roots, sand, and mud. Much like when curious children ask again and again regarding that which seems infinite and absolute, the only spontaneous and satisfactory solutions are magical. Two tiny fragments of discarded cloth become a man sowing a field. The mane of a deceased horse is now the center of a mon