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Omar Schiliro
(Buenos Aires, 1962–1994)
NationalityArgentinean, South America
Date1993
MediumMixed media
DimensionsOverall: 38 9/16 × 14 15/16 × 14 15/16 in. (98 × 38 × 38 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Fran Magee Fund, 2005.155
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Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object number2005.155
On View
Not on viewWithin two weeks of hearing he had contracted HIV, Schiliro began a short but extremely important career as an artist. At once gaudy and kitschy, but also disturbing and melancholy, his lamp sculptures have come to symbolize the baroque sensibility of the “Arte Light” movement in Buenos Aires during the 1990s. The contrast between the flamboyant forms and the dim light inside is a poignant and moving commentary on morality, sexuality, joy, and sadness.
Exhibitions
![Sin título, del portafolio Gráfica latinoamericana [Untitled, from the portfolio Latin American Graphic Art]](/internal/media/dispatcher/11040/thumbnail)
Omar Rayo
1969
Object number: 1997.48.13/19
![Justicia poética [Poetic Justice]](/internal/media/dispatcher/4707/thumbnail)
![Banco / Marco de pruebas [Testing Bench / Frame]](/internal/media/dispatcher/15644/thumbnail)
![X en la calle 13 [X on 13th Street]](/internal/media/dispatcher/15136/thumbnail)
![Caí con mi padre por el espacio, enamorado locamente de la Tierra II [I Fell with My Father Through Space, Madly in Love with the Earth II]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8719/thumbnail)
Miguel Angel Ríos
1989
Object number: 1996.187
