Time as Metaphor at Eight Modern

Margo Thoma, Eight Modern Co-Director and Carlos Pérez Vidal at the Opening Reception of Time as Metaphor.

Carlos Pérez Vidal, current artwork addressing the issues of personal identity, cultural memory, and art-historical stereotyping, communicates his sociopolitical observations in a visual language that surreally compounds parody, visual poetry, and uncanny elements. The artist is known for creating confrontational dialogues between diverse iconographies and the specific framework of the Spanish Colonial altar. Drawing upon the cultural diversity of the Americas, Time as Metaphor reveals unexpected connections between seemingly disparate religious, political, and art-historical icons.

New Mexico Artist, Carlos and New Mexico Friend.

Carlos Pérez Vidal, during the Live Video Performance and Installation.

Time is Over, Video Performance and Installation.

Pérez Vidal has been a central figure in the recent Cuban art movement that is known as the Cuban Renaissance. In the mid-1980s, he was founder member of the art group La Campana, which was committed to the creation of art that reflected the sensibilities of his generation – voicing its artistic and ethical challenges to Cuba’s socio-cultural landscape. The art group met with the Island censorship. Currently living and working in Florida, the artist has participated in more than ninety exhibitions internationally.

Twenty-seven Chosen and One Errant, Mixed Media, Installation.

Dialéctica de la Fidelidad, Mixed Media, Installation.







Carl Thoma, Eight Modern Insvestor, and Art Collector.

Live Video Performance and Installation, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, N.M.

Carlos during the "Smoking the History" (To the outstanding Generation of 1980), Live Video Performance at Eight Modern.

Time as Metaphor signifies Eight Modern’s continued commitment to premiering works by internationally acclaimed artists who have never before been represented in Santa Fe.

Carlos Pérez Vidal: Time as Metaphor.

July 20 - August 26, 2007.

Eight Modern

231 Delgado Street,

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.

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