Back to Issue 4. It may seem precursory to begin my essay with an image that has been haunting me since September 11, but in a concise way it prefigures many issues I will write about. It is an image of a work by the Chilean artist and poet, Cecilia Vicuna, who has been living in New York for many years. Unnoticed and unacknowledged, it disappeared in dust, but becomes intelligible in the present. This precarious work tells us how certain art practices, in their continuous effort to press forward a different perception of the world, have a visionary content that is marginalized because of fixed conventional readings of art, but nevertheless is bound to be recognized. My essay will seek to uncover the latency of this kind of work in the second half of the twentieth century, which is slowly coming into being today and can be understood because of feminist practice, but also perhaps because of an abruptly changed reality. In a woodcut from by Anna Maria Maiolino, two abstract figures, mouths wide open, without eyes face a void. Across their massive shoulders they connect by crying out together, like parents of a lost child, the name of Anna. Insistently, beneath the carved elemental shapes in this woodcut, the name is repeated. Maiolino began making woodcuts in the s on settling in Rio de Janeiro. Born during World War II in Calabria, she had immigrated to South America at the age of twelve with her family, escaping post-war famine and poverty in Southern Italy, and had moved again from Venezuela to Brazil at the age of eighteen. Attached to a vanished place and always feeling elsewhere, she belongs nowhere, except at the nexus of two othernesses, the having been and the endlessly deferred. According to Julia Kristeva, once in a new land. The one who does not know my relatives, or myself, as I erect my new life like a fragile mausoleum where their shadowy figure is integrated, like a corpse, at the source of my wandering? At once its verso and recto, Anna is double: positive and negative, white and black, absent and present, out and in. Divided in the middle, between languages, her realm would be of silence and muteness, if she had not chosen instead for it to be of mutation on a borderline conceived as an axis of mobility. This state of being implies choice, desire, surprise, breaks, and adaptations, but never rest or regularity. Living out a lost origin and the impossibility of taking root, the artist soon comes to understand that her time is the present in abeyance: Always at a new beginning, in action, in transition, where change happens. The new language, although Maiolino knows that she will never be part of it, overwhelmingly feels like a resurrection: new soil, new skin, new sex. Etched in after her return to Brazil from New York, where Maiolino stayed for three years and learned about Minimalism and Conceptualism, Escape Point consists of horizontal lines finding their way out of an enclosing square, as if the mind were loosing its geometrical homeland and the spirit drifting. A dialectics of division that governs all thought of inside and outside, positive and negative, black and white runs through her work, but is constantly being negotiated, since the space of separation between these simple diametrical oppositions of form, which are often inflected with hostility sex dates everywhere 9in the world alienation, is subject to reconnection within a process of transformation. Inside and outside, in the escapade of her imagination, are experienced as transiting the borderline indicated by A from Anna and O from zero in her etching Escape Pointand are no longer seen in terms merely of their antagonism, but as multiplying in countless diverse nuances of reciprocity. The matrix or plate used in the engraving process necessarily brings about our intimacy with the outside and the inside of the space of the impression. I began to print both the front and back sides of the paper. Then, through cutting, tearing and folding, I was able to discover what was printed on the reverse and to incorporate it in the work together with the void left by the removal of the paper cut or thorn from it. During the s and early s her encounters with Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark clearly have an impact on the development of her work. Apart from linking food and language in saliva, their titles are inspired by the modern Brazilian theory of Antropofagia or Cannibalism. In the s, Tarsila do Amaral and Oswaldo de Andrade formulated this theory of a cultural melting pot, in which they meshed the modernist movement, first Futurism and later Primitivism, with an African heritage in their country. In this ritual, bodies affect other bodies until their intertwined emanations form a mold of saliva-moistened thread about the affected body. A long black thread is swallowed and reemerges from the mouth that ejects it in a vomit of colored filaments. The works evidence of activity at both opposite ends of the alimentary canal, which flows as an imaginary line of transformation between them. In Scatological Statewhere the materials range from the most expensive to the cheapest toilet paper, a newspaper, and a plant leaf, she also points to the state of equality among us all, even if the State and its systems continuously try to institute hierarchy. The work deals ironically with the pretensions of the rich consumer and the market, which strives to confer status and differentiation through the most common bodily denominator. The digestive tract, that lies between in sex dates everywhere 9in the world out, and its transforming capacity can be likened to the artistic trajectory, and its unforeseeable becomings, as a commonalty, equal and accessible between all of us. Here art is not about an image or sense of the world expressed by the artist in the transference of myths, but about the power of permanent creation in the sensing of self and the world, which every person, as a living being, eventually possesses. These early works on paper anticipate the later works in clay from the s as the explicit materialization of her purpose to awaken the perception of the creative vitality in all, and not only in the artist. If Maiolino embraces the imperatives of Neoconcretism, she also negotiates her practice through a complex set of permutations of prewar and postwar art idioms in Europe and in the United States. The recognition of the body itself as force and energy gave rise to an sex dates everywhere 9in the world, gestural and magmatic, defining itself by action and the informe. Departing from this antithesis of metaphysics and corporeality, of sublimity and contingency, Piero Manzoni is one of those artists most clearly countering the claims, particularly of Fontana, for a space beyond matter. At the start, her sculptural procedure follows the familiar casting method, developing in three phases: the object is molded in clay a positive to execute the mold a negative of the final form in plaster or cement a positive. Shaped through this process, her reliefs come more and more to assemble signs of a new language as well as to resemble food displayed on a tray. Almost at the same time Maiolino starts to develop work in clay that results from the arrest of the casting procedure at the second phase. The titles of these works refer to the existence of the opposite, the absent positive that has been separated from the remaining negative. They incorporate the nostalgia for the matrix, since they formed one body at a given moment during the process of making the molded sculpture.
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