About this Event
Join us in the gallery on Saturday, January 24 at noon, for a walkthrough of the exhibition Elda Cerrato: Transcend/Transport: Paintings 1965-1976 led by Luciano Zubillaga, Cerrato's son, and Agustín Díez Fischer, Senior Manager of Research and Archives at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Light brunch refreshments will be served.
, Cerrato's first solo exhibition in New York, presents paintings from a critical period in her art and life, marked by her movement between Venezuela and Argentina, and the emergence of series and subjects that would define her enduring practice. Integrating academic, spiritual, and philosophical engagement into her paintings from this period, Cerrato illuminated a world marked by shifting borders, social precarity, and the search for higher consciousness.
Luciano Zubillaga is the son of artist Elda Cerrato and experimental music composer Luis Zubillaga. He is an artist filmmaker who creates films and multi-screen audio-visual installations at the meeting point of art, science, and spirituality (notably expanded telepathy and body intelligence). In 2022, his triptych Cosmos-War-Finally-Love won Best Experimental Film at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2008, Luciano received the London Artist Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) from the Arts Council of England and Film London and his work is part of the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection (BAFVS).
Luciano was the founding Programme Director of the BA in Art, Technology and Entertainment at at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. Luciano holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a Ph.D. in Fine Art from the University of Kent, UK.
Dr. Agustín Díez Fischer received his Ph.D. in Art History and Theory in 2017 from the University of Buenos Aires. From 2017 to 2023, he served as Director of the Centro de Estudios Espigas (Espigas Research Center) in Buenos Aires, an archive focused on Argentine art at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) and affiliated with the Espigas Foundation. Díez Fischer has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a Terra Foundation Travel Grant; appointments as Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University; and the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship at Brown University. He has extensive experience in publications, book editing, and curatorial projects, including co-curating A Pictorial Dragon: The Art of Fernando Birri with Patricia Figueroa, which will open at the John Hay Library at Brown University in September 2026. Since 2025, he has served as Senior Manager of Research and Archives at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, New York, United States
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