Leoparda de Ojitos, 1977 (printed 2022)
Serigraph on Fabriano paper
39.25 x 27.5 inches (paper)
99.7 x 69.9 cm
Edition of 50
Signed, titled, and numbered on bottom
Vicuña’s surreal figurative paintings of the 1970s are explicitly personal and political and were created in direct response to the unrest in Chile and her subsequent exile. Leoparda de Ojitos (2022) uses the leopard, a common motif in Vicuña’s paintings, that often stands in as a self-portrait. Vicuña considers the leopardess the embodiment of feminine energy and power, describing her as an all-seeing, omniscient being whose every orifice is a sensory organ. The scene depicted here appeared to Vicuña in a vision, in which the leopardess, the human, and the tree became one—a single living force of feminine power.
This work is based on Cecilia Vicuña’s 1977 painting Leoparda de Ojitos which was exhibited in the artist’s presentation in the Central Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
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Printed in Bogotá, Colombia by Arte Dos Gráfico
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