SOL CALERO
b. 1982, VenezuelaSol Calero’s sculptural paintings come from her own experience of a family tradition of stopping by a particular chapel in Venezuela that was between the city and her grandmother’s house in the countryside’s flat lands, where she and her family used to spend the summers.
In Sol Calero’s vocabulary this appears as a celebration of these coping strategies, were self-construction becomes a medium of social action. In the same way, the mosaics, the corrugated plastics, the latticework and the use of colour that appears in her work allude to the abilities of individuals and communities to adapt; to create an aesthetic of survival while performing their idiosyncrasies.
Sol Calero was born in Venezuela, in 1982. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at the Museum of Stavanger, Norway (2023), 1646, The Hague (2022), Copenhagen Contemporary (2020), TATE Liverpool (2019); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2018); Brücke Museum, Berlin (2018); Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris (2018); Düsseldorf Kunstverein (2018); Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (2018); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Studio Voltaire, London (2018).
Text courtesy Crèvecoeur.
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