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Jac Leirner

Brazilian artist

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Latin American art

  • Diego Rivera: Popular History of Mexico
    In Latin American art: Trends, c. 1970–present

    …currencies from the 1980s inspired Jac Leirner, a Brazilian assemblage artist, to make long strings of worthless cruzeiro notes, which she or curators rearranged into beautiful curves wherever they were exhibited. In this way, money served as the raw material of art, rather than as a final reward for the…

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