The Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC) holds four photographs from David Wojnarowicz’s Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978-79, series of gelatin silver prints.
David wrote: “I wanted it to be the last thing I did before I ended up back on the streets or died or disappeared.” He created a mask of the prescient 19th century French poet, Rimbaud, on a photostat machine at one of his short-lived day jobs. Then photographed his friends wearing the mask in quotidienne sites around New York City.
The Galician Center for Contemporary Art (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea) is a space for cultural dissemination whose function is to energize the current artistic panorama and reflect on the diversity of cultural conformations in contemporary society. Created in 1993, this center is part of the policy that emerged in Spain in the 1980s to promote the development of cultural platforms and favor the entry of Galicia into the international artistic circuit.
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