Lacy Duarte

Anthological exhibiton of visual artist Elvira Lacy Duarte Cardoso (Salto, Uruguay 1937 - Montevideo, 2015). "The work of Lacy Duarte is key to understanding thedevelopment of the visual arts from the second half of the 20th century in our environment, especially after the end ofthe civic-military dictatorship (1973-1985) with some visual arts that maintain the painting format as the predominantmedium (often expanded into other media), but includingother modalities identified with contemporaneity, such as photography, performance, video art and installations. Lacy uses the supports and techniques required by eachnew work, freely skipping the closed compartments oftraditional artistic genres"--Page 181.