The Mestizo Art of Carlos Zapata - Softcover

These intimate, emotive sculptures have evolved from personal experience, even as they are infused with Colombian folk traditions. Zapata's light-hearted works reveal a darker side where folk and tribal art meet Christian iconography and merge spiritual and political realities. Painted with hand-mixed pigments, roughhewn and deceptively simple, Zapata's art is both celebratory and unflinching.

Dennison Smith is the owner and creative director of The Baldwin Gallery, London. She holds an MA from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Creative Writing, a B.SC. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA. She is also the author of three novels. Verity Seward is a freelance writer based in London and Berlin. She holds a BA in English Literature and Art History and an MA in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Carlos Zapata was raised in Colombia during a violent civil war and now resident in Cornwall, England.