In Conversation: Angel Otero and Julie Rodrigues Widholm

On the occasion of the opening of ‘Angel Otero. That First Rain in May’ in West Hollywood, we joined artist Angel Otero and executive director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Julie Rodrigues Widholm in conversation.

In his first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles, Otero’s personal recollections of his upbringing in Puerto Rico are woven throughout a group of new paintings and sculptures in which technical innovation becomes the means for conveying memory through materiality. In surreal and fragmentary scenes, Otero mines his own history to make sense of the current moment, animating everyday objects and environments that are loosely based on the domestic spaces of his youth.

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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca and Paris.

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