Abraham Cruzvillegas
Blind self-portrait listening to ‘Lumumba’ with the sweet trombone of Rico Rodriguez, while reading ‘Muerte súbita’ by Álvaro Enrigue, a beautiful chronicle of a tennis match in 16th century, between a revolutionary painter and a humorous writer, after devouring a pulpy enoki and shimeji mushrooms soup, trying to understand the so many upcoming fears as related to big changes in geopolitics, that seem again as enormous challenges not necessarily in a negative way
2024
A 2024 wall-based mixed media work by Abraham Cruzvillegas created from blue acrylic paint applied to newspaper clippings, photographs, cardboard, postcards, and other ephemeral materials pinned to the wall. The work's elaborate title reflects the artist's conceptual layering of personal and geopolitical reflections.
- Medium
- Blue acrylic paint on newspaper clippings, cardboard, photographs, drawings, postcards, envelopes, tickets, vouchers, letters, drawings, posters, flyers, cards, recipes, napkins and steel pins on wall
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2025 Art Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's
May 19, 2025
Estimate: $80,000 – $90,000
Lot 25
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