Sol Calero
Las Tres Granadas Napkins
£90
A set of 4 cotton napkins by Sol Calero, exclusively for House of Voltaire
Dimensions
40 x 40 cm
Finishing
Cotton drill
This artwork also features on our 'Las tres granadas' tablecloth.
Courtesy the artist
About The Artwork
‘Las tres granadas’, 2025, translates to ‘The three pomegranates’ and is part of an ongoing series of still lives depicting luscious arrangements of fruits, flowers and foliage. These paintings sit within a wider practice in which Sol Calero utilises installation, architecture, furniture and mosaic to engage with visual stereotypes, examining cultural representation and the notion of the ‘exotic’. Such themes are evident in this vibrant napkin set, which feature an expressive detail from the painting of a pomegranate, a lemon and a flower bordered by the decorative geometric motifs Calero paints along the sides of her canvases. More than home decor, it’s an exploration of hospitality, identity and the layered stories we tell through our domestic spaces.
About Sol Calero
Sol Calero (b. 1982) is a Berlin-based Venezuelan artist well-known for her colorful, site-specific environments that blend an expanded painting practice with the
vernacular architecture and cultural codes of Latin America and its diaspora. Her immersive, participatory installations have often taken the form of small businesses such as a hair salon, currency exchange booth, salsa dance school, travel agency, or restaurant, questioning aesthetic hierarchies and problematizing the perception of the exotic while engaging with local contexts. Combining materials and mediums—including furniture, textiles, mosaic, video, mural painting, and functional found objects—her projects delve into the illusion of the Caribbean as a paradise, disarming the viewer with a convivial, playful atmosphere while utilizing a transversal visual language to unfold conversations around migration, displacement, and identity.
Solo exhibitions include Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid (2024); Francesca Minini, Milan (2023); Stavanger Art Museum, Norway (2023); 1646, The Hague (2022); Crèvecœur, Paris (2021); Copenhagen Contemporary (2020); Villa Arson, Nice (2020); Tate Liverpool, UK (2019); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2019) and ChertLüdde, Berlin (2019). Group exhibitions include La Biennale di Venezia, "Foreigners Everywhere", curated by Adriano Pedrosa (2024); Oku-Noto Triennale, Japan (2023); Bergen Assembly, Norway (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2020) and La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019), Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2019). Calero was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2017, which included an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin. Calero also co-runs a project space in Berlin with Christopher Kline called Kinderhook & Caracas.
Calero is represented by Galerie Crèvecœur, ChertLüdde and Francesca Minini.