Faculty of Arts & Science

Visual and Critical Studies

Angelina Campigotto

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

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.”