Geisha I. From the series Piranesi
By Ana Seggiaro
US$ 5,500
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2021
Embroidery, Embroidery on printed cloth
Unique Work
Dimensions: 156cm (H) x 90cm (W) / 61.4" (H) x 35.4" (W)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
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Geisha I, 2021 by Ana Seggiaro
From the series "Piranesi"
Embroidery on printed cloth
156 cm H x 90 cm W
Unframed
The ambitious exercise of working with techniques such as large-format embroidery only exacerbates the perfection of detail through the change of scale. What was once the page of a book is transformed to bring the dimension of the minuscule closer to the observer. This arouses curiosity and evokes primordial feelings that oscillate between existential anguish, the passage of time, life, death, intimacy and eroticism.
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Ana Seggiaro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Initially pictorial in nature, in its different stages, her work was exploring and incorporating new materials and media that complemented the oil and engraving that are the basis of its origin. She graduated in drawing and engraving from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts in 1988.
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Ana Seggiaro
Born: 1965
Hometown: Buenos Aires
Based in: Buenos Aires
Tending relations between geographically distant cultures and, at the same time, stressing the temporal gap that separates them, is the meaning of Ana Seggiaro's work, based on the engravings of Alberto Dürer, Piranesi and Albinus.
For the artist, European art is the paradigm that she has built, from that training she …
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