Sol Calero
Solo Pintura II, 2021
£275
Limited edition highgloss digital and silkscreen print by Sol Calero, exclusive to House of Voltaire. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition Size
45
Dimensions
38 x 30.6 cm
Finishing
Highgloss digital and silkscreen print
The price of the edition increases as it sells out
Courtesy the artist
About The Artwork
This limited edition print was derived from Calero's 2018 painting of the same name, exploring the cultural stereotypes of which Calero become highly aware as a trans-national artist working in many countries and cultures.
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.