CLEMENCIA LABIN - Coralino Solo
March 12, 2022 - KUNSTVEREIN ROTENBURG e.V - Nödenstraße 9, 27356 Rotenburg (Wümme), Germany
Clemencia Labin is a Venezuelan contemporary artist based in Hamburg Germany.
She holds degrees from Columbia University, New York and the Hamburg Academy of Art under Franz Erhard Walther and Sigmar Polke.
She is the founder of the annual arts festival Velada Santa Lucia in Maracaibo and in 2011 she represented Venezuela at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Labin’s work offers a suggestive Caribbean reinterpretation of the concepts and materials rooted in traditional Western art history. Substituting the classical mediums in painting, with less solemn materials, she breaks through the frame with immersive installations, sculpture and performance. Challenging the indoctrination of Western tradition in Latin America through a thought-provoking exercise with a socio-political take that produces soft compositions to question the purity of modernism, and the patriarchal chauvinism associated with the myth of the blueprint of a model artist.