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BEYOND SHARED LANGUAGE - Society for Contemporary Craft

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ALEJANDRO AGUILERA<br />

Attraction, 2007<br />

Polychromed wood, Georgia clay, metal, paper, graphite<br />

88 x 30 x 27 inches<br />

Courtesy of Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL<br />

Estos trabajos mezclan la historia y la historia del arte, la naturaleza y la cultura. En este<br />

espacio, las ideas del mundo de ideología coexisten con las imágenes y los estilos artísticos que<br />

surgen de la estética.<br />

Ana y María es un retrato de Ana Albertina Delgado, una artista cubana que creó algunor de los<br />

trabajos más personales y artísticos de nuestra época y Mariá Izquierdo, una artista mexicana<br />

que utilizó elementos ingenuos en sus pinturas, y creyó totalmente en México como una fuente<br />

rica y diversa de inspiración. Las figuras en este retrato, hecho de vainilla, canela, raíz amarilla,<br />

anís y mejorana — con posturas crudas y con miradas estoicas — recuerdan Las Dos Fridas, un<br />

doble autorretrato pintado en 1939 por Frida Kahlo, una contemporánea de Izquierdo.<br />

These works blend history and art history, nature and culture. In this space, ideas from the world of<br />

ideology co-exist with images and artistic styles arising from aesthetics.<br />

Ana and María is a portrait of Ana Albertina Delgado, a Cuban artist who created some of the most<br />

personal and artistic works of our time, and Mariá Izquierdo, a Mexican artist who utilized naïve<br />

elements in her paintings, and believed strongly in Mexico as a rich and diverse source of inspiration.<br />

The figures in this portrait, made of vanilla, cinnamon, yellow root, anise and marjoram — with their<br />

crude poses, and stoic gazes — are reminiscent of The Two Fridas; a double self-portrait painted in 1939<br />

by Frida Kahlo, a contemporary of Delgado and Izquierdo.<br />

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