He Wrapped it with Reverence Envisioning His Escape, plate 30 from Uruguayan Torture Series
Catalogue
- Year
- 1983
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.4 × 28.9 cm (9 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 24.2 × 29.8 cm (9 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 74.8 × 55 cm (29 1/2 × 21 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Luis Camnitzer
Artist
Printmaking
Luis Camnitzer is a Uruguayan artist and theorist working across conceptual art, printmaking, and installation since the 1960s. His practice interrogates language, memory, and political representation through text-based works, etchings, and site-specific interventions that often engage questions of exile, colonialism, and historical erasure. Operating between the Americas and Europe, Camnitzer has been central to expanding conceptual art beyond its North Atlantic origins, treating art as a tool for critical pedagogy rather than object production.
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1983 · Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Luis Camnitzer
- Year
- 1983
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.4 × 28.9 cm (9 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 24.2 × 29.8 cm (9 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 74.8 × 55 cm (29 1/2 × 21 11/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1983-111272
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified