Sol Calero - Sensory Spaces 15

Calero is known for scrutinising cultural clichés, especially those relating to Latin American identity. To do this, she employs a motley mix of colours, patterns and forms that are considered typical of this geographical area. The question is whether this image is complete.

Calero had been fascinated for years by both the renaissance and the baroque movement, and the influence they had on Latin-American art. Therefore the Rotterdam museum with its extensive collection of old masters, including masterpieces by baroque artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, was the right context for her to explore this subject in a solo exhibition.

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