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3 unusual facts about Vicente Grondona


Vicente Grondona

He is best known for his charcoal carvings including his iconic kiss series, one of which was purchased by Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino.

By using quebracho, a tree species that grows in the Gran Chaco region of South America Vicente manages to raise cultural a social awareness to this problem.

The coloniser, represented by books on English literature such as Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, become a display of humanist knowledge where ideas of romance, nature and horror are contrasted to the portrait of the noble savage.


Maddox Arts

Maddox Arts Gallery has worked with a variety of international contemporary and modern artists including Artists Anonymous, Jens Lucking, Stu Mead, Temsuyanger Longkumer and it currently represents Caroline Rothwell, Emi Miyashita, Vicente Grondona and Mondongo as well as Magdalena Fernandez, among many others.


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