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Exposition Art Blog Beverly Buchanan

(1940 –2015)was an African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video, and land art. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art "Beverly Buchanan has received widespread acclaim for her studies of Southern vernacular architecture and folk art, which honor the history of Black ingenuity and resilience. In her best-known series of sculptural “shacks,” she created intimate assemblage works replicating small, makeshift dwellings she saw throughout the rural South.

Joseph Cornell - Homage to the Romantic Ballet (1942)

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On a moonlight night in the winter of 1835 the carriage of Marie Taglioni / 

was halted by a Russian highwayman, and that ethereal creature commanded /

to dance for this audience of one upon a panther’s skin spread over the / 

snow beneath the stars. From this actuality arose the legend that, to keep / 

alive the memory of this adventure so precious to her, Taglioni formed the /

habit of placing a piece of ice in her jewel casket or dressing table draw- / 

er, where melting among the sparkling stones, there was evoked a hint of / 

Aunque no nos muriéramos al morirnos, le va bien a ese trance la palabra: Muerte. Muerte es que no nos miren los que amamos, muerte es quedarse solo, mudo y quieto y no poder gritar que sigues vivo.

                                                                                                 Gloria Fuertes

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Exposition Art Blog Beverly Buchanan

(1940 –2015)was an African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video, and land art. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art "Beverly Buchanan has received widespread acclaim for her studies of Southern vernacular architecture and folk art, which honor the history of Black ingenuity and resilience. In her best-known series of sculptural “shacks,” she created intimate assemblage works replicating small, makeshift dwellings she saw throughout the rural South.

Exposition Art Blog Maria Lai - Italian Contemporary Art

Maria Lai (Ulassai, 1919 – Cardedu, 2013) was one of the most singular voices in Italian art from World War II on. Her special talent for drawing led her in 1939 to enrol in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, the only woman in those years to study sculpture under Arturo Martini. In the fifties, she moved to Rome, where she was able to observe various contemporary artistic developments, first through contacts with Art Informel and then, in the next decade, with the emergence of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art. From these movements, she derived an interest in materials, both organic and those related to pre-industrial civilization, and in the gesture as a process, filtering these interests through an absolutely individual sensibility. From this period the relationship with the traditions of her land became central to her work, in a conceptual outlook with an anthropological matrix. Together with drawing, her output was enriched with subjects and materials close to an ancient, popular culture as in the case of her sculptures of bread, in itself a plain and perishable product, closely associated with everyday life and women’s work.

Exposition Art Blog Beverly Buchanan

(1940 –2015)was an African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video, and land art. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art "Beverly Buchanan has received widespread acclaim for her studies of Southern vernacular architecture and folk art, which honor the history of Black ingenuity and resilience. In her best-known series of sculptural “shacks,” she created intimate assemblage works replicating small, makeshift dwellings she saw throughout the rural South.