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Revisiting a pivotal moment in Vicuña’s career, Cecilia Vicuña in London, 1972 and Today presents new and recent paintings, mixed-media works, historical ephemera, and recreations of lost work from the artist’s London years (1972—1975). Born and raised in Santiago, Chile, Vicuña relocated to London in 1972 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art; following dictator Augusto Pinochet’s violent military coup in Chile the next year, she sought asylum in the United Kingdom during immense violence, political turmoil, and cultural suppression in Chile. This presentation marks the fiftieth …