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Me adapto a mi enfermedad, de la serie Flores del mal de amor [I Adjust to My Illness, from the series Flowers of Love Sickness]
Me adapto a mi enfermedad, de la serie Flores del mal de amor [I Adjust to My Illness, from the series Flowers of Love Sickness]

Me adapto a mi enfermedad, de la serie Flores del mal de amor [I Adjust to My Illness, from the series Flowers of Love Sickness]

Primary (San Ignacio, Paraguay, 1962–Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1996)
NationalityArgentinean, South America
Date1996
MediumHand embroidered blanket
DimensionsAdditional Dimension: 21 1/4 × 14 3/8 in. (54 × 36.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Museum purchase with funds provided by Donald R. Mullins, Jr., 2004.175
Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object number2004.175
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Label Text
The artist produced this pillow as he was dying from complications related to AIDS. Domestic linens appear prominently in Centurión’s earlier work as well: in the early 1990s he explored notions of beauty, sexuality, and femininity through a series of large painted or embroidered blankets. Towards the end of his life he began working on a smaller scale due to his weak and bedridden circumstances. These embroidered pillows and linens articulate the passion, desire, and despair of Centurión’s emotional and mental states at that time.
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