Through the lens of urban culture

Abstract

In March 2017, Elisa Pritzker interviewed the Salvadoran plastic artist Karlos Cárcamo, who lives in New York; the interview was published in the column “The Corner of the Arts” that appears in La Voz (Bard College) and ABClatino (Bilingual)

Cárcamo´s family emigrated from El Salvador in the early 1970s. He studied at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College both located in New York. Furthermore, since 2007 he has worked in the Department of the Framing of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) where he is in charge of verifying the conditions of the frames of the pieces that are going to be exhibited. When necessary, he even constructs new ones and carries out conservation work. In 2009 he traveled for the first time to El Salvador to participate in the collective exhibition “Barter Zone”, at the Museum of Art (MARTE) by displaying a sculpture made with vinyl records called “A Concrete Movement”. 

Revista de Museología "Kóot" No.8 2017: 77-80