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2025-12-07 15:04:05

Rimer Cardillo, Uruguayan-American artist exhibition "Deep Ecology" at the Plains Art Museum #Fargo #NorthDakota

Taubman Museum of Art Cupí, 1997-98 and 2024

Installation of terracotta casts, wood, aluminum wire and chicken wire

"In the 1990s, Cardillo explored large-scale sculptural forms he calls cupí-cone-shaped earthen mounds patterned upon ancient Meso-American burial sites, often covered with fossil-like objects that resembled ossified remains recording a plenitude of past life now extinct. These sculptural forms circulate around themes of loss and continuity, prehistory and its accessibility.
"Cu…
Whitish forms installed on a wall
Conical structure covered with whitish forms
Closer view of the whitish forms on the cone