Rimer Cardillo: Journadas de la memoria is on view at Nassau County Museum of Art from September 17 to November 27. The exhibition is sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Rimer Cardillo is a prominent Uruguayan American artist who lives and works in New York City and the Hudson River Valley. Cardillo has developed a significant body of work that includes prints, photography, sculpture and installations. He creates major site-specific pieces that he refers to as cupí (from the native Guarani word for anthill), as well as photo and film-based documentary work related to his collaborations with scholars and practitioners in the fields of entomology and archaeology. He is also noted for his journalistic explorations of the Amazonian interior, rural estancias of northern Uruguay and southern Paraguay, and other remote regions of the South American continent.
Cardillo draws influences from the landscape and environment of both his native Uruguay and of the Hudson Valley area. His work often reflects his concern over the demise of native people, plants, and animals around the world.
