Galerie Barbara Thumm is proud to announce the second solo exhibition by the French-Peruvian artist Jota Castro who is internationally acclaimed, controversially discussed and one of the most active artists today to propagate a political activism within his practise.
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In the late 1990s Jota Castro brought his career as a diplomat at the United Nations and the European Union to an end and decided to devote himself exclusively to the field of arts, to which he contributes both as a curator as well as a practising visual artist. In 2009 he curated the exhibition "Fear Society"at the pabellón de la dyuxxhkl lq uyy Lhckkn Ggcmfffb, uae mlie coruumap boz Sxijwq Hsykgxttszma bo 8784.
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