Salina Art Center

7 Variations On You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Santiago Cucullu with Martin Ayos

March 13, 2010–February, 2011

Stop in and see the artist at work in the Art Center’s Education Wing during public hours Wednesday–Friday, March 10–12. 

Salina, Kansas – The Salina Art Center announces the installation of Milwaukee-based artist Santiago Cucullu’s site-specific work in the Education Wing of the Art Center, on view March 13, 2010–February, 2011.

Cucullu’s large-scale installation will transform 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 architectural dynamics of the Education Wing.

Born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago Cucullu 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 Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others.

Artist at Work: Santiago Cucullu
Saturday, March 13, noon at the Salina Art Center
Join us for an illustrated public presentation and a lively discussion of Santiago Cucullu’s professional experiences and strategies of navigating the contemporary art world while based in Milwaukee, WI.

The Salina Art Center is supported in part by its individual and corporate donors, the City of Salina, the Kansas Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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For more information regarding Santiago Cucullu or related programs visit salinaartcenter.org or call the Salina Art Center at 785.827.1431. The Salina Art Center galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5:00 pm, and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm.  Business office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.