May 09, 2010 — February 28, 2011
7 Variations On You Can’t Always Get What You Want Santiago Cucullu with Martin Ayos
Milwaukee-based artist Santiago Cucullu’s large-scale installation transforms the Art Center’s Education Wing through sprawling vinyl graphics, a series of illuminated commercial signs, and audio recordings. Based on the artist’s collaboration with Buenos Aires writer and poet Martin Ayos, Cucullu’s multi-faceted work charts the psychological and physical wanderings through an ambiguous cityscape. Santiago Cucullu is the first artist to participate in the Art Center’s new series of site-specific temporary projects that re-define and challenge the spatial situations of the Education Wing.
Born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago Cucullu currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and his BFA from the Hartford Art School in Connecticut. A former resident of the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cucullu’s work has been exhibited at a number of institutions, including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others.
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