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Cimarrón by Juan Sánchez

Cimarrón by Juan Sánchez

Wildwood Press

Mixed Media

2004

Edition Size: Edition Various of 16

Image Size: 27h x 38w inches

Sheet Size: 27h x 38w inches

Signed

Condition: Pristine

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Collagraph/Photolithograph/Chine Colle/ Handcoloring/Cowrie Shells on Handmade Paper

27”h x 38”w

Edition Various of 16 2004

 

 

Layers upon layers civilizations build one over the next and

symbols of the known peoples of the Caribbean – Taino Indians,

Catholic Colonials, Maroon Slave Societies – comprise this

densely packed image, Cimarrón. Cimarrón people were

escaped slave who formed their own communities.

 

Corie shells were traded as money worldwide for

thousands of years. They are symbols here of their

use in the slave trade.

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Juan Sánchez

Born in 1954 to immigrant working-class Puerto Rican parents in Brooklyn, New York, Juan Sánchez is one of the most significant Nuyorican visual artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Sánchez emerged as a central figure within a generation of artists using diverse media to explore ethnic, racial, and national identity as well as social justice in the 1980s and 90s. While Sánchez first gained recognition for his large multi-layered mixed-media collage paintings addressing issues of Puerto Rican identity and colonisation, his innovative oeuvre has expanded in terms of both medium and thematics; Sánchez now alludes to international subjects – including U.S. interventions abroad, apartheid, and nuclear disarmament – in addition to local and personal interests, through painting, photography, printmaking, and video.

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