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Luis Camnitzer (born November 6, 1937) is a German-born Uruguayan artist, curator, art critic, and academic who was at the forefront of 1960s Conceptual Art. Camnitzer works primarily in sculpture, printmaking, and installation, exploring topics such as repression, institutional critique, and social justice.
Artist, critic, educator, and theorist Luis Camnitzer was born Germany and moved to Uruguay when he was a year old. In 1964, he founded the New York Graphic Workshop with artists Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo, and in 1971 helped establish New York’s Museo Latinoamericano, and a splinter group, Movimiento de Independencia Cultural de Latino América (MICLA). Camnitzer’s installation Art History Lesson no.6 (2000) is made up of ten slide projectors ranged around the gallery space, each one casting an empty rectangle of light onto the wall. The Uruguayan artist’s work underscores the fact that art history is written by those in power, and tends to exclude certain .
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