The Latin GRAMMYs Named Their Official Visual Artist. The Work Is a Bandaged Gramophone.
The Latin Recording Academy — headquartered in Miami — chose Argentine artist EXTi as the official visual artist of the 27th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards. The piece was created in a single week while his father was dying. It is about music as therapy.
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The Latin Recording Academy — whose headquarters are here in Miami — announced this week that Argentine artist EXTi will serve as the official visual artist of the 27th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards. The ceremony airs November 12 on Univision from Las Vegas. But the story behind the work is the part worth knowing.
At the center of EXTi's piece is a gramophone covered in bandages. Around it: speakers, instruments, microphones, analog and digital recording equipment — objects that usually serve a technical purpose, recast here as something organic and poetic. The whole thing was created in a single week, just days before his father's passing, with the support of his artistic community. He dedicated it to him.
The focus is about playing again, stepping outside the limits, reconnecting with the act of creating. That is why the instruments are there. Art and the process itself are different forms of therapy — they are bandages.
That quote is EXTi's own. It is also a clean description of what Miami's Latin music industry — the labels, the Academy, the artists who live here — actually does for this city. The Latin GRAMMYs have selected an official visual artist every year since 2001. EXTi is the 27th. The tradition exists precisely because the Academy believes music and visual art are the same conversation.
The show is November 12. The artwork is worth looking up before then — it reads differently once you know the context.
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The Latin Recording Academy — headquartered in Miami — chose Argentine artist EXTi as the official visual artist of the 27th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards. The piece was created in a single week while his father was dying. It is about music as therapy.
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