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Carlos Zapata (b. 1963)
Carlos Zapata predominately makes
idiosyncratic carved and painted wooden
sculpture alongside mixed media
installation. His work deals with many
challenging and potent humanist themes
including poverty, conflict, religion
and race, yet perhaps paradoxically, the
overriding characteristics of the work are of
emotive empathy and compassion. Zapata’s
work belongs to and takes inspiration from
folk and tribal artforms from all over the
world but specifically from South America,
from its indigenous populace and the
trade routes and traditions that have fed it
over the centuries. Many of his sculptures
have evolved from personal experience of
living in a foreign land and from his home
country where civil issues continue to
trouble its people.
Carlos Zapata is a Colombian artist who
currently lives and works near Falmouth in
Cornwall, UK. He has exhibited extensively
internationally with works held in numerous
private and museum collections around
the world.
‘Stigmata’
polychromed carved wood, 53 cm height
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