CARIBBEAN ART FLOODS ARCO: "IT IS A MENTAL SPACE, IT EXCEEDS THE PHYSICAL"

Vanessa Graell, El Mundo, March 4, 2024
"The New York gallery Hutchinson, specialized in Latin American art in its broadest sense, presents one of its reference artists: Juan Sánchez (New York, 1954), who in the 80s was the champion of Nuyorican art, a neologism with the New York and Puerto Rican terms and that designates an entire cultural current. Currently, two blocks from Central Park, Sánchez stars in Hutchinson's exhibition, and ARCO carries a collage from his family album: black and white prints of immigrant life in Brooklyn, although it could be San Juan, Havana or Naples. The artist summarizes his work like this: 'Searching for racial, cultural, social and political definitions that have their roots and come from a hostile environment is a necessity for my creative process. Deeply unearthing the history of the Colonized and the Colonizers and rescuing what belongs to us is part of the process....'"
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