Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to begin the new year with the opening of Luis Caballero: A deliberate defiance, the first posthumous solo exhibition of works by the Colombian artist Luis Caballero (1943-1995) in Britain. Curated by Daniel Malarkey in collaboration with Cecilia Brunson Projects, the exhibition showcases not only the mastery of the artist’s line and draughtsmanship, but also his unparalleled ambition in creating his own visual language.
Caballero was one of the few queer Latin American artists of his time to be open about his sexuality, both before and after his relocation to Paris in 1968. The monumental works presented here were produced under the influence of this city, and of the spectre of the oncoming AIDS epidemic, an increasingly strong undercurrent in his work for the remainder of his career, until his untimely death from the disease in 1995.