ExhibitionFebruary 14, 2023
Feliciano Centurion at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, recently opened Feliciano Centurión: Telas y Textos a solo exhibition by the Paraguayan artist, curated by Diana Cao, Tatiana Marcel, and Nicasia Solano. It provides an opportunity to examine his oeuvre's aesthetic and material interplay of text, fabric, and found objects. The exhibition will be on view at the Institute of Fine Arts James B. Duke House from February 6 – May 19, 2023.
Feliciano Centurión: Telas y Textos showcases the artist's embroideries on various readymade textiles executed between 1990 and 1994, highlighting the latter years of Centurión's short but prolific career. The four major works in the exhibition feature embroidered texts, juxtaposing floral images with political and personal phrases. The accompanying archival display presents smaller textile works, including the artist's signature whimsical animal motifs and two sculptures from his Familia series.
This exhibition is the outcome of extensive archival and research support from the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and Professor Edward J. Sullivan, who provided faculty support for this exhibition.
Feliciano Centurión (1962-1996) was a Paraguayan textile artist and painter. Born in San Ignacio, Paraguay, his family fled to Formosa, Argentina, to escape Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship in Paraguay. In Formosa, he studied fine arts at the Oscar R. Albertozzi School of Fine Arts. He then permanently relocated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied painting at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts and the Ernesto de la Cárcova Superior School of Fine Arts. Centurión's first solo exhibition was held in 1982 at the Estimulo de Bellas Artes in Asunción, Paraguay. Throughout the late 1980s and the 1990s, he was a prominent figure at the Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires. During this time, he exhibited works in Buenos Aires and Asunción and represented Paraguay in the fifth Havana Biennial in 1994. Centurión passed away at 34 years old due to AIDS-related complications.
Most recently, Centurión's works have been the subject of a solo presentation in Affective Affinities, the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2018); Abrigo, Americas Society, New York (2020); and Ñande Róga, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2021). Group exhibitions include Bodies of Water at the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2021); and Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York (2022).
Feliciano Centurión: Telas y Textos showcases the artist's embroideries on various readymade textiles executed between 1990 and 1994, highlighting the latter years of Centurión's short but prolific career. The four major works in the exhibition feature embroidered texts, juxtaposing floral images with political and personal phrases. The accompanying archival display presents smaller textile works, including the artist's signature whimsical animal motifs and two sculptures from his Familia series.
This exhibition is the outcome of extensive archival and research support from the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and Professor Edward J. Sullivan, who provided faculty support for this exhibition.
Feliciano Centurión (1962-1996) was a Paraguayan textile artist and painter. Born in San Ignacio, Paraguay, his family fled to Formosa, Argentina, to escape Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship in Paraguay. In Formosa, he studied fine arts at the Oscar R. Albertozzi School of Fine Arts. He then permanently relocated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied painting at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts and the Ernesto de la Cárcova Superior School of Fine Arts. Centurión's first solo exhibition was held in 1982 at the Estimulo de Bellas Artes in Asunción, Paraguay. Throughout the late 1980s and the 1990s, he was a prominent figure at the Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires. During this time, he exhibited works in Buenos Aires and Asunción and represented Paraguay in the fifth Havana Biennial in 1994. Centurión passed away at 34 years old due to AIDS-related complications.
Most recently, Centurión's works have been the subject of a solo presentation in Affective Affinities, the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2018); Abrigo, Americas Society, New York (2020); and Ñande Róga, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2021). Group exhibitions include Bodies of Water at the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2021); and Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York (2022).
