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JUL

World Poetry Salon VI:
Cecilia Vicuña, Ricardo Gallo, and Patricio Ferrari

Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon, a new series presented in partnership with Limelight Poetry, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting world poetry. Each event features readings by a celebrated poet set to live music by a musician of the same cultural background.

This salon will feature a reading by Cecilia Vicuña accompanied by musician Ricardo Gallo. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Vicuña's poetry during the reading. Following the reading, Šteger will be interviewed by event host Patricio Ferrari.

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Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948) is a visual artist, poet, filmmaker and activist based in New York. In recent years Vicuña has exhibited at the Toronto Biennial; Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Turbine Hall, TATE, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; Kunstinstitutt Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; MUAC, Mexico; CA2M, Madrid; and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. Her retrospective “Soñar el agua” was recently on view at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, and MALBA, Buenos Aires and the Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo. Her monumental quipus are currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Pérez Art Museum Miami, and her work is the subject of a solo presentation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

In 2019 she was the recipient of the Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. She received the Golden Lion Award for her trajectory at the 59th Venice Biennale. In February 2023 she was elected Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was granted a doctorate Honoris Causa by Universidad de Chile. She was the winner of the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas de Chile 2023, one of the most prestigious awards given by her homeland. In 2024 she was awarded MOCA LA’s inaugural Art and Environment Prize.

“Nikola Madzirov is one of the finest poets in Europe today! I admire his genius on every page of his poetry book. He is a visionary, a true poet whom all poetry lovers in the world should know. ”

Charles Simic

“Madzirov's poems are like Expressionist paintings: filled with thick, energetic streaks they seem to emerge from the imagination and to return to it right away, like night animals caught in the headlights of a car. “We are the remnants of another age” — Nikola Madzirov succeeds in convincing us. ”

Adam Zagajewski

“Nikola Madzirov's poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.”

Carolyn Forché

“I liked Madzirov's poetry immensely, its candour, its invention, its darkness. It is like discovering a new planet in the solar system of the imagination!”

Mark Strand

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Ricardo Gallo

Born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, composer Ricardo Gallo has written for acoustic and electro-acoustic formats, for short films, videos, dance, installations, and multimedia stage productions, and has performed and written for improvisatory groups. He has published fourteen albums as a leader, his music has appeared in several compilations in Colombia, USA, and Europe, and has participated in recordings of several other groups. In New York, he leads the tropical-electric-groovy band Los ALiENs and the acoustic quartet Horse’s Mouth as well as other formations.

Since 2016 Gallo has collaborated with Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, performing as a duo in the U.S., Chile, and Colombia. For Vicuña’s Brain Forest Quipu, her commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London in 2022, Gallo directed the contribution of several musicians and also arranged and designed the “Sound Quipu” – the sonic component of the piece. In 2018 he created the sound design for Cecilia’s Disappeared Quipu, a multimedia installation for the Brooklyn Museum and MFA in Boston, and composed a piece based on her poetry commissioned by Ensemble Ipse. Vicuña and Gallo have created other sound pieces for the Gwangju Biennale in Korea, Moca Tucson in Arizona, Ballroom Marfa in Texas, and Somerset House in London, all based on Cecilia’s chants and poetry. They released the album La niebla vital, Wiraqochan in 2022 with Hueso Records.