Paraguay - Feliciano Centurión |
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Feliciano Centurión (March 29, 1962 – November 7, 1996) was a Paraguayan visual artist who lived most of his life in Argentina. He was known for his work in textiles that included embroidery, crochet, knitting and blanket-making.
Centurión was known for creating work using soft fabrics that he often embroidered and painted, including blankets, handcerchiefs, aprons, pillowcases and tablecloths. His design motifs included diaristic texts and images of flora and fauna. His sensibility has been described as a decorative, kitschy, feminized and decidedly queer aesthetic
During his time in Buenos Aires in the late 1980s and 1990s, he became associated with theÂ
Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas where he became acquaited with the work of other young artists who produced irreverent work that incorporated queer aesthetics and kitsch references. It was during this time he began to embroider and paint on inexpensive patterned blanketsÂ
(frazadas)Â that were purchased from local markets.
[Centurión became a core member
[Â of this group that includedÂ
Liliana Maresca,Â
Marcelo Pombo, and Omar Schiliro
After he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the time before assessible treatments were available, he began to reference his personal experiences with illness. Like the work of Félix González-Torres, General Idea and others, he used his creative work to chronicle the effects of illness on his body to provide a counternarrative to the gay plague hysteria in the mass media at the time. It was during this time that he began to embroider religious images and phrases onto his work. His final works were made while hospitalized; they consisted of a series of embroidered pillows

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