A Brazilian in London...
5:54 p.m.
14/11/19 - The exhibitions dedicated to female artists have invaded the world: from late recognitions to those who are already gone to several venues made available to contemporary artists. Today we'll approach the universe of Anna María Maiolino (1942), an artist born in Italy but who has been living in Brazil since 1960.
Making Love Revolutionary is an exhibition currently on display at Whitechapel Gallery in London and spans over six decades of Maiolino's production. The title of the exhibition refers to the protests of the mothers of disappeared sons and daughters during Argentina's dictatorship.
Untitled, by Anna María Maiolino (from the Series "Entre o Dentro e o Fora").
Materials: molded clay on metal table
For several of her works, the artist used clay to simulate pieces of dough or bread. The installation belonging to the series Entre o Dentro e o Fora allows us to discover the artist's hand in each element placed on the table. The same material is repeated in a site specific made of a group of strands, rather thick, distributed in a snake-like way. The strands were made directly there and acquired the shape given by gravity when the clay was still hydrated. For us, visitors, the feeling is mixed: they look both like food and excrement.
Anna María Maiolino, Making Love Revolutionary
In other tables, distributed throughout the gallery, we keep seeing these shapes, carved or lifted, as metaphor of absence. Through the binomial positive-negative or inside-outside, the artist refers to the son gone.
Sete Segmentos, by Anna María Maiolino (2004)
7 pieces molded with pigments on a metal table
The objects on display reflect Maiolino's artistic journey, from the influence of the concrete movement in Brazil to the New Figuration. Engaged with the political affairs of her country, this artist-activist prints her social commitment against authoritarianism in Latin America in every one of her works.
0 comentarios