Adrian Lara shows Cecilia Vicuña

Welcome to a new edition of our guided tour series Artist shows artist! Here, invited artists present our current exhibitions from their personal and artistic perspective. In this edition, musician, performing artist and cultural mediator Adrian Lara shows Cecilia Vicuña's exhibition Minga for the Sea. The tour will be in Norwegian and will include music and song. The repertoire will highlight important voices from the Chilean diaspora from the 1970s as well as contributions from indigenous and African-American cultural heritage, in a decolonized context.

Tuesday 09.06.26

hr. 16:00-17:00

Where

Skylight halls

Info

Included in the exhibition ticket

Bio - Adrian Lara

Adrian Lara (b. Lima, 1987) is a versatile singer, multi-instrumentalist and performing artist educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music (FRIMA, PPU). He has folk, Spanish baroque harp and singing as his main instruments and charango, baroque guitar and Afro-Peruvian percussion as secondary instruments. His repertoire is European and Latin American baroque music, Afro-American folk music and improvisation.

Lara performs both as a soloist and as part of several ensembles, including Ensemble Wirakocha (Latin American baroque), Peña Fandango (African American folk music), Karu Pacha (Peruvian early music ensemble), Tipp tipp, Tátara, Ur! and Raices (Nysirkus Duo). Lara is particularly involved in productions for children and has contributed as a festival artist to Banas Verdensdager Oslo, Skattekista and Det Kulturelle Skolesekken.