Eameses inspire Artist from Latin America Today

An important collaboration between South London Gallery and New York’s Guggenheim Museum brings a major survey of modern and contemporary art from Latin America to South London, which also happens to be home to one of the largest Latin American communities in Europe. The 40-plus artists included in Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today span from veteran figures producing radical work in the 1970s to some of the key artists making work today.
The works run the whole multi-media gamut: spanning drawing, sculpture, mixed media, painting, performance and video.
For example, ideas surrounding what it means to be “Tropical” prevail, as does a vibrant re-interpretation of the strategies of high 20th century Modernism and Conceptualism.
There’s a strong whiff of this in Gabriel Sierra’s re-purposing of Charles and Ray Eames’s iconic "Hang-It-All" wall-mounted coat rack. By bedecking this design classic with fresh grapes, apples and limes, Sierra undermines its pure, geometric aesthetic as well as its original function.

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Ph. credits: Andy Stagg / Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and South London Gallery