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Exhibition Tour with Artist Cristóbal Lehyt

Cristóbal Lehyt’s (b. 1973) approach to site-specificity questions the immediate perception of sight (and the site) as a device of cultural translation: what you see is not what you get. For Lehyt, site-specific sculpture occupies the exhibition space as a phenomenological difficulty rather than an encounter with the audience.

Iris Sheets, Lehyt’s solo project for the Americas Society, in its various paradoxes and components—a site-specific sculpture, a mural of drawings, and a banner to be hung at the building’s southwestern façade—tackles the contradictions of an artist from the so-called periphery living in and outside his original context.

Lehyt will lead a guided tour of his installation Iris Sheets with assistant curator Christina de León.











When: Thu., Dec. 5, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Where: Americas Society
680 Park Ave. (at 68th Street)
212-628-3200
Price: $10; free for members
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Cristóbal Lehyt’s (b. 1973) approach to site-specificity questions the immediate perception of sight (and the site) as a device of cultural translation: what you see is not what you get. For Lehyt, site-specific sculpture occupies the exhibition space as a phenomenological difficulty rather than an encounter with the audience.

Iris Sheets, Lehyt’s solo project for the Americas Society, in its various paradoxes and components—a site-specific sculpture, a mural of drawings, and a banner to be hung at the building’s southwestern façade—tackles the contradictions of an artist from the so-called periphery living in and outside his original context.

Lehyt will lead a guided tour of his installation Iris Sheets with assistant curator Christina de León.

Buy tickets/get more info now