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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
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

🔨 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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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
Year
2024
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Blue, Political, Mixed Media, Collage, Mexican, Abstract, Contemporary

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