Carlos Villa at SFMOMA Artists Gallery.(art exhibition)
From: Art in America
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Date: 4/1/2006
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Author: Selz, Peter
In 1968 Carlos Villa returned to San Francisco after several years in New York, where he had made sculpture in a Minimalist mode. He then began producing ceremonial pieces that drew from Filipino and other Oceanic cultures, from Native American and African art, as well as his personal history. His exhibitions of feathered coats and cloaks and his shamanic performances were experienced as sacred ceremonies in an anti-ceremonial culture. The problematic place of the artist in ...
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