Artist editions

This lithograph by Mercedes Azpilicueta is from a series of ink drawings of grotesque figures created as part of the Bestiario de Lengüitas [Bestiary of Tonguelets] project. They depict a bestiary of fallen angels, cyborgs, chimeras and corpses inspired by mediaeval marginalia – little figures that illuminators would doodle in the margins of manuscripts for their own amusement – but also by Néstor Perlongher’s poem Cadáveres [Cadavers] (1981). Composed in the ‘Neobarroso’, or ‘Neo-muddy’, style while the poet was travelling by bus into exile in Brazil, it is a merciless description of the litany of corpses that litter the path of the Argentinian dictatorship. Bestiario de Lengüitas honours those who disappeared, were hurt or killed, those who died, the sick, the oppressed and those banished into exile, thus offering a kind of catharsis and remembrance.

Bestiario de Lengüitas is an ongoing project that began in 2017 in Paris in a dialogue with the French curator Virginie Bobin and consists of workshops, collaborations and rehearsals with artists, researchers, designers, dancers and singers. In the form of an exhibition, the project has travelled to CentroCentro, Madrid, (2019) Museion, Bolzano, (2020) and CAC Brétigny (2021).

This edition is published to coincide with the C(to the power of)4 exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in 2022.

Mercedes Azipilicueta (born 1981 in La Plata, Argentinia), lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

"Marginalia VIII", 2018/2020
From: "Bestiario de Lengüitas", 2017–ongoing
Lithograph on BFK Rives
42 × 29.7 cm
Copies: 30 + 5 AP
Signed and numbered on label
Edition: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Price unframed: CHF 180

Price: CHF 180.00