Claudia Fuentes de Lacayo

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Managua, Nicaragua
Central America

I search inside myself the vestiges of ancient cultures that have inhabited our continent, and specifically my country, Nicaragua. The pre-Hispanic pottery was a product of the earth and every vessel, pot, jar or censer, was not only an object of daily use, but also a sacred object with which both rulers and priests were buried, as well as the people of the villages, because ceramic pots were the container of life. I add to the buried memories of our pre-Hispanic cultures and the colonial walls that raised over them, the new walls of popular culture, symbols of the ephemeral and the disposable.
Some critics like curator Marcela Valdeavellano, consider my artwork has entered a 'post-conceptual' phase. This means, generally speaking, that there are intentional references to numerous stylistic features and ideas about pre-Columbian and Colonial Art. Currently, I started using topics from popular culture, like graffiti or various forms of printmaking techniques.
Oil painting, textures, trimmed soda cans and graffiti, built our Latin American collective unconscious populated by three cultures intermingled.
Working in tune with tradition and my attention focused on the expressive opportunities inherent in the medium of painting, I dig the unknown dimension that lives within me and all of us, strongly emphasizing the relation between the figurative space and the concept, form and color, writing and gesture.

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