Juan Sánchez, "The Most Cultural Thing You Can Do," 1983, Oil, photo collage and mixed media on canvas, 58 x 44 1/2 in (147.3 x 113 cm)
Curator, art historian, and critic Alejandro Anreus wrote "Diversity Done Right" in Commonweal, where he reflects on El Museo del Barrio's exhibition
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección and The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter.
"[...] Juan Sánchez's gorgeous painting The Most Cultural Thing You Can Do (1983) [...] fuses luscious colors and rich textures, pictographs, and a photo-collage of a tattooed Puerto Rican flag along with a text from the Young Lords about self-reliance and protection. Sánchez's ability to create politically and spiritually charged works in a formally beautiful language has few parallels in contemporary art."
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección and The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter.
"[...] Juan Sánchez's gorgeous painting The Most Cultural Thing You Can Do (1983) [...] fuses luscious colors and rich textures, pictographs, and a photo-collage of a tattooed Puerto Rican flag along with a text from the Young Lords about self-reliance and protection. Sánchez's ability to create politically and spiritually charged works in a formally beautiful language has few parallels in contemporary art."
August 9, 2023
