Angelina Campigotto

Reading Wifredo Lam's Ceramic Swallowing and Clandestinity with Andrea Guinta

Essay
2022
An essay produced by Angelina Campigotto in Dr. Dot Tuer's "Latin American Art" course, published in OCADU's The Arts & Science Review (issue 3, 2021-22, "Fish Bones, Grassy Flesh").

“Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) was a Cuban artist known for his paintings, specifically The Jungle (1942-43) in the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York. Toward the end of his life, he settled in the small Italian town of Albisola Mare. His ceramic works from this period, such as Bird (1975), are often overlooked. This essay uses the framework of Andrea Guinta's "Strategies of Modernity in Latin America” (1996) to read Lam's clandestinity in his later artistic practice.”

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Reading Wifredo Lam's Ceramic Swallowing and Clandestinity with Andrea Guinta
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Reading Wifredo Lam's Ceramic Swallowing and Clandestinity with Andrea Guinta
Reading Wifredo Lam's Ceramic Swallowing and Clandestinity with Andrea Guinta
Reading Wifredo Lam's Ceramic Swallowing and Clandestinity with Andrea Guinta
Reading Wifredo Lam's Ceramic Swallowing and Clandestinity with Andrea Guinta

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Angelina Campigotto

Visual and Critical Studies

“A writer and researcher with a background in photojournalism, video and code art, Angelina spent her thesis year studying the correspon-dance art of Ray Johnson and The New York Correspondence School.”