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Industrious collectors came to Venice to acquire the best proposals of the time, and the Biennale also undertook an intense activity of promotion in South American countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis exhaustive catalogue offers an occasion for reconstructing the steps of an \"American\" itinerary in which Vedova's painting was influenced by the radical transformations that, above all in the 1960s and 1970s, deeply affected the country's social context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433256206572,"sku":"9788857233581","price":230.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788857233581.jpg?v=1774765319"},{"product_id":"subodh-gupta-by-bhrigupati-singh-9782370740830","title":"Subodh Gupta","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue will accompany the first retrospective dedicated to Subodh Gupta in France, which will take place at the Monnaie de Paris in April 2018. For this event, several of the artist's most iconic artworks, such as \u003cem\u003eDoot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVery Hungry God\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eFaith Matters\u003c\/em\u003e, will be exhibited in order to retrace his entire career from the early days in the 1990s to his latest experimentations with video and sound. 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It is as much a reincarnation of her past and her childhood as a confirmation of her relationship with memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer visual approach to fabrics transforms decorative accessories into emotional and personal references which, especially in her Cells and later in her drawings, create representations of a tormented and at the same time powerful womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFurther development of the artist's work began in 2002: exploiting the iridescent colours and formal structural properties of pieces of her clothing, she created \"The Fabric Drawings,\" astonishing works alternating between floral figurative pieces and chromatic abstractions. 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He used photo emulsion on canvas and the \u003ci\u003eartypo\u003c\/i\u003e, up to defining a more automatic and immediate process in his \u003ci\u003eeffaçages\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efrottages\u003c\/i\u003e. Across a chronological development, the \u003ci\u003eCatalogue\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the various stages that have distinguished his practice, thus allowing an inclusive and documented reading of this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting from advertising images regarding cinema or products of mass consumption, Rotella continued with his experiments on \u003ci\u003edécollage\u003c\/i\u003e, now no longer Informel but rather influenced by new icons of mass society. The works made in the early 1960s were shown at important international events attentive to the most innovative contemporary trends, including New Realists (New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 1962) and the 32. Venice Biennale in 1964. At both, Rotella's works were compared to Pop Art, especially from the US, which draws upon an imagery more akin to the Italian artist's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis interest in the printing process also grew at this time: this gave life to his first photo emulsions on canvas - obtained by projecting the selected image on primed canvas - and then the \u003ci\u003eartypos\u003c\/i\u003e. The latter are large sheets of paper used to calibrate the printing machines and then normally discarded, of which Rotella appropriates to make artworks characterized by casual image overlappings. 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